A new armed group has threatened to carry out attacks on Niger’s uranium mines in protest against marginalization of the minority Toubou population.

A plane crash has left one Polish national dead and five others injured in Kenya's Rift Valley.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has named five former army generals as new provincial governors as part of appointments that increase the influence of military and security figures on crucial bodies.

Western powers have called on forces loyal to Libya’s powerful general, Khalifa Haftar, to leave the oil ports they have seized from the country’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).

South Sudan’s rebel leader and former first vice president Riek Machar has fled to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations says.

The main opposition group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has called for a general strike in the country following the government’s refusal to hold an early presidential election.

The Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group has invaded a village in Nigeria, killing at least ten people and abducting 13 others before burning down the entire village.

The UN-backed government in Libya faces a major blow as lawmakers in the internationally-recognized parliament reject the cabinet.

Nigeria says its warplanes have launched an airstrike against positions of Boko Haram militants in the northeast, killing several senior terrorists and fatally injuring the Daesh-affiliated group’s disputed leader.

Two Egyptian police officers have reportedly been killed in a shooting attack in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

An Egyptian military court has sentenced 418 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement to jail terms ranging from two years to life imprisonment.

The United Nations has voiced concern about the alarming conditions of well over two million Libyans, who need humanitarian aid due to the militancy in the north African country.

A government-commissioned report says the Nigerian army killed 348 Shia Muslims during an attack on a religious ceremony last year.

The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has purportedly appointed a new leader for its Nigeria-based affiliate, Boko Haram.

The Egyptian military says it has killed the leader of the Daesh Takfiri group operating in a restive Sinai region northeast of the country.

Egypt’s former mufti and pro-government cleric Ali Gomaa has survived an assassination attempt on the outskirts of the capital Cairo.

Nigeria has arrested seven people for allegedly providing the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) militants with high-caliber explosives and detonators.

An improvised explosive device (IED) has exploded in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, leaving four people dead and seven others wounded.

The African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia said the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants on Saturday shelled residential areas in the southern town of Baidoa.