(Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday to choose presidential and parliamentary candidates in an election riddled with irregularities even before voting began.)

(The United Nations is investigating fresh allegations of sexual abuse in Central African Republic, where peacekeepers have been hit with numerous charges of sexual abuse over the past year, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday.)

(Des affrontements entre groupes armés dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo ont causé la mort d’au moins 15 personnes dimanche. La région est le théâtre depuis plusieurs semaines de vives tensions ethniques.)

(A French general has defended France’s response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying his troops did not give so much as a bullet to the perpetrators and did not immediately grasp the scale of the killing, sources say.)

(A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.)

(Libya’s internationally recognised parliament on Monday voted to reject a UN-backed unity government, lawmakers said, in a major blow to international efforts to end the country’s unrest. )

(Onze anciens membres du régiment de sécurité présidentielle, l’unité auteur d’un putsch raté en septembre dernier au Burkina Faso, ont été interpellés après l’attaque vendredi d’un dépôt d’armes près de la capitale Ouagadougou, a déclaré ce dimanche l’armée.)

(La commission de l’Union Africaine (UA) a nommé l’ex Premier togolais Edem Kodjo en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) comme facilitateur en vue de mener les consultations pour le dialogue politique.)

(Kenya’s military carried out air raids on al-Qaeda-linked militants in southwestern Somalia after an attack on an African Union military base Jan. 15 in which the Islamists said at least 100 Kenyan soldiers died.)

(It took just 15 minutes on Monday morning for South Africa’s rand to plummet 9 percent in what traders said may be a prelude of the new normal in the global $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market.)