CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of Egypt's tax authority, Abdul Azim Hussein, has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes, the public prosecutors' office said on Saturday.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Plucking the opening bars of her song "Tere Mbi" on a guitar in a dingy studio in central Kinshasa, Congolese singer Celine Banza is blinded by a spotlight propped up by a brick and a piece of folded cardboard.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Violence in Sudan's West Darfur region over the past week has left at least 65 people dead and more than 50 injured, as well as displacing thousands, an international peacekeeping mission said on Friday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's Western-backed government forces beat and detained a record number of journalists last year, the journalists' syndicate told Reuters on Friday, prompting suggestions the government is suppressing scrutiny of its security record ahead of elections due this year.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it was following developments in Iraq with great concern and appealed against any further escalation.