US drone aircraft have attacked suspected militants in north-west Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, killing five people.
Human rights groups on Friday accused Zimbabwean police of setting fire to an informal settlement in Harare, forcing about 250 people to flee.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
There have been no new wage talks between public-service unions and the government, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Friday.
Rwanda rejected as malicious a leaked draft United Nations report that said its troops may have committed genocide in the DRC in the 1990s.
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on Friday it had executed four former military officers convicted of an armed attack on its presidential palace last year.
African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema on Friday warned ANC leaders they could be removed at any time.
North Korea would answer any attack on it with a nuclear "holy war", the country’s ambassador to Cuba said, according to official Chinese media.
A triumphant day meant to mark Kenya’s "second birth" has been tarnished after the government refused to arrest Sudan’s fugitive president.
The practice of voting on the basis of "slates" — lists of candidates aligned to specific factions — has to be rooted out, Kgalema Motlanthe says.