December 11, 2015 Mike Friday quits as Kenya sevens coach Mike Friday resigned as Kenya Sevens head coach on Wednesday, citing too much interference in his work and disatisfaction over the lack of funding for the national team.
December 11, 2015 Egypt Church Slams Authorities for Allowing Repeated Attacks on Christians Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities Monday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to 26, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo over an attack on a church.
December 11, 2015 US woman in NGO dispute stopped from leaving Egypt An American woman banned from leaving Egypt as part of its crackdown on foreign-funded pro-democracy groups was stopped from boarding an international flight Thursday, Cairo airport officials said.
December 11, 2015 Anger gives way to gloom at pro-Morsi rally Anger gave way to gloom on Thursday as Islamists rallied at a Cairo mosque where thousands of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi said they felt under siege and betrayed by the army.
December 11, 2015 DR Congo rebels face disarmament deadline Thursday Rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo face a deadline Thursday to lay down their arms, but they have dismissed the UN peacekeepers' ultimatum as irrelevant.
December 11, 2015 Egypt extends detention of Jazeera journalist Egyptian prosecutors have extended the detention of an Al-Jazeera journalist for another 45 days, his lawyer said Thursday, amid accusations of a crackdown on the channel for pro-Islamist reporting.
December 11, 2015 S.African university to reopen after staff end six-week strike A South African university which was forced to close due to labour unrest and maladministration will re-open next week, after workers called off a six-week-long strike, unions and officials said Friday.
December 11, 2015 Ghanian Ziggy seeks US football fame Ghana native Ziggy Ansah begins a promising American football career on Sunday, completing an unlikely odyssey towards a game watched by few and played by even fewer in his west African homeland.
December 11, 2015 Car bomb explodes at French embassy in Libyan capital A car bomb targeted the French Embassy in the Libyan capital early Tuesday, wounding two French guards and a Libyan teenager in an attack that President Francois Hollande denounced as an assault not only on France but all countries engaged in the fight against terrorism.
December 11, 2015 Army chief Sisi emerges as Egypt's new strongman Army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is emerging as Egypt's strongman amid the turmoil sweeping the country, is desperate to end the crisis but without a return to the unpopular military rule of 2011-2012, experts say.
