Sierra Leone's incumbent president won re-election and was sworn in for a second term, pledging to boost the economy of the nation scarred by years of civil war.

Dozens of protesters, some throwing rocks, faced off in central Cairo Saturday morning with police, who fired tear gas canisters at them. The irritating gas drifted through streets near a more thinly populated Tahrir Square, where just a day before thousands of protesters called for the overthrow of the regime.

Lawmakers in Uganda are preparing to vote on a new anti-homosexuality bill that proposes tough jail sentences for consensual same-sex behavior.

Protesters stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing in Alexandria on Friday, state TV reported, a day after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy issued orders that essentially allow him to run the country unchecked until a new constitution is drafted.