ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria released a prominent opposition activist on Thursday after freeing dozens of other people in recent days who were jailed during 10 months of mass protests.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt strongly condemned on Thursday a vote by Turkey's parliament vote to allow a troop deployment to Libya, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 2 (Reuters) - MTN Group has agreed to sell its towers businesses in Ghana and Uganda as Africa's biggest mobile phone operator refocuses on high-growth markets on the continent and in the Middle East.

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's designated prime minister Habib Jemli said on Thursday that Abderrahmen Khachtali would be the finance minister and Khaled Shili the foreign minister in a government he has proposed to the president.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Armed assailants on Thursday killed three people and injured two others in Kenya's Lamu county, a coastal region near the border with Somalia, police said.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - As wounded men screaming for their mothers were brought into a Mogadishu hospital after a huge truck bomb on Saturday, doctors fought to save eight month-old Mohammed Hassan, whose mother was already dead.

BISSAU (Reuters) - Former prime minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo has won Guinea-Bissau's presidential vote, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, but his opponent complained of fraud and vowed to contest the result in court.

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's designated prime minister Habib Jemli submitted a proposed cabinet to President Kais Saied on Wednesday, but he has not yet publicly announced the names of cabinet ministers.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey may hold off from sending troops to Libya if forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar halt their offensive against the internationally recognised government in Tripoli and pull back, the Turkish vice president said on Wednesday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - At least 24 people were confirmed killed after a camp for internally displaced people was attacked in Sudan's West Darfur, an international peacekeeping official said on Wednesday, as top officials arrived to try to calm the violence.