Brighten clouds with sea water? Spray aerosols high in the stratosphere? Paint roofs white and plant light-colored crops? How about positioning “sun shades” over the Earth?

A fundraising campaign aimed at putting rhino poachers in jail was welcomed Friday by South African conservationists.

Egypt said on Friday the country’s first post-revolution election had seen a record turnout but it again delayed the release of full results expected to show Islamist candidates sweep to victory.

Preliminary results from Congo’s presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, although the country’s election chief warned only a small percentage of precincts had been counted.

The UN Security Council on Friday refused to delay a vote next week on taking sanctions against Eritrea so the isolated country’s head of state can make his case, diplomats said.

Tunisia on Friday closed the second main border post into Libya following attacks on Tunisians on the Libyan side, a security source said two days after the first closure.

President Joseph Kabila and veteran opposition head Etienne Tshisekedi were ahead of the pack in early results from DR Congo’s elections, officials said Friday, amid mounting tension and fears of more violence.

South Sudan will take legal action against Sudan and any companies engaging in the “theft” of its oil exports, the country’s oil minister said on Friday.

A Rwandan journalist critical of his country’s President Paul Kagame has been shot dead in Kampala, a police spokesman said on Friday.

Two Burundian high school pupils were sentenced to life in prison Friday for killing a Croatian nun and an Italian charity worker in an armed attack on a mission this week, officials said.