A Coptic Christian teacher in an Egyptian primary school will stand trial after colleagues and the parents of students accused her of insulting Islam and evangelising, a judicial source said on Tuesday. The trial of Dimyana Ubeid Abdel Nour will begin on May 21, the judicial source said. She has been freed on bail of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($2,900) ahead of the hearing.

A donor conference on Mali will on Wednesday seek to raise 1.9 billion euros to repair the damage caused by the war against Islamists, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. "The aim is to find nearly 1.9 billion euros ($2.4 billion). Things are going well and there will be about 100 countries attending, as well as a dozen heads of state," Fabius told RTL radio of the conference due to open in Brussels. "Security is largely in place," he said. "Now the need is for democracy, dialogue and development, and these go together. And for that, we need money."

Sudanese rebels on Tuesday said they had resisted for the second time in two weeks an army attempt to retake an area seized during a surprise strike into a previously peaceful region. They said they remained in control of Abu Kershola in South Kordofan state, where the defence ministry late Monday reported "intensive fighting on the ground and by air."

A Tanzanian man has been charged with murder in connection with a deadly bomb attack on a church in northern Tanzania that killed three people, police said Tuesday. Nine suspects were arrested following the May 5 explosion in Arusha, police said, including five Tanzanians, three Emiratis and a Saudi. The four foreigners have been released without charge and left Tanzania, according to media in their respective countries.