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Ethiopia's Somali region said on Wednesday a vital road and rail trade route linking the landlocked capital of Addis Ababa to the sea port...

A heavy police presence smothered central Algiers on Friday, blocking a resumption of a weekly protest movement authorities can no longer tolerate. A Reuters journalist...

At least one person was killed by security forces during protests against UN peacekeepers in Oicha in the restive east of the Democratic Republic...

“Hoodlums” wearing military uniforms may have shot Nigerian protesters campaigning against police brutality and it was too soon to tell if soldiers were involved,...

Nigeria police agreed to stop using force against protesters accusing them of brutality, the presidency said, a day after law enforcement officers shot at...

Police used teargas to disperse campaigners for civilian rule before substantive talks over Mali’s political future began in Bamako on Thursday, indicating a deepening...

Police in Mali’s capital Bamako fired into the air on Monday to disperse protesters calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign, witnesses said,...

Iranian security forces shot at protesters from helicopters and a rooftop and aimed at peoples’ heads using “severe violence” to quell anti-government unrest, UN...

A court in Algeria sentenced 21 protesters to six months in jail for “undermining national unity”, official media reported, a month ahead of a...

Zimbabwe’s army said soldiers accused of beating residents following protests over fuel price hikes were impostors who tarnished the name of the military. Security forces...

Stone-throwing Sudanese demonstrators battled security forces in Khartoum, witnesses said with a child and doctor reported killed at the start of a fifth week...

Security forces in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region shot dead four people protesting against looting of shops and homes in weekend unrest, a...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI pardoned dozens of people arrested in recent protests in the northern region and blamed the failure of local...

Six Zimbabwean anti-government activists were shot at and beaten by a gang of men, some wearing police riot gear, ahead of a...

Protesters gathered again in Cairo's Tahrir Square to try to evict the generals who replaced Hosni Mubarak, in a trial of strength...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for US banks that they should pay for opposition research into the...

New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street arresting more than 200 people in repeated clashes with an unexpectedly small...

Eight Yemenis, including five protesters, were killed in a new upsurge in violence in the capital hospital officials and witnesses said,...

George Soros isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the...

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters marched on the New York homes of wealthy executives triggering one of their targets, billionaire hedge...

Sierra Leone authorities have arrested 39 protesters in the south of the West African nation, following tensions between the local population and...

Hundreds of supporters of would-be Afghan lawmakers, declared winners by a court but losers by an election body, blocked a main junction...

Angola's main opposition party, UNITA, accused the government of using violence to suppress a pro-democracy protest and called for the release of...

Some leading Malawi rights groups agreed to postpone mass protests against President Bingu wa Mutharika by up to a month, but shops...

Malawi police killed 19 unarmed citizens and shot 58 others during protests in July, the government's rights body said in the first...

In Sanaa's battle-scarred Hasaba neighbourhood, the distant chanting of protesters demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is punctuated by gunfire...

The spokesman for Guinea’s military junta said Captain Moussa Dadis Camara supports the United Nations’ ongoing investigation into the recent massacre of...

Guinea's military government has arrested a prominent human rights official while United Nations investigators are in the country to find out what...