The government of Zimbabwe has lashed out at an anonymous group of war veterans for their open criticism of President Robert Mugabe, saying authors of the controversial communiqué will not go unpunished.

South Sudan’s opposition has declared that its leader Riek Machar, who also serves as the war-torn country’s vice president, is being replaced by one of his opponents.

A group of armed militant groups in Libya has called on the people to fight foreign forces in the North African country, describing their presence as a “blatant aggression.”

An appeals court in Nigeria has ruled against a ban on Nigerian Muslim girls to wear the headscarf to schools in the southwestern state of Lagos.

Fighters affiliated with Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) say they seized a building Sunday used by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists for making explosives in the militants’ stronghold of Sirte.

Three people have been killed in an attack by militants in the south of the Central African Republic, security forces say.

At least 20 members of forces loyal to the Libyan unity government have lost their lives as they engaged in clashes with Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the northern city of Sirte.

Morocco is reportedly set to rejoin the African Union (AU) after leaving the pan-African organization more than three decades ago.

South African state prosecutors say they will take to the country’s top court to challenge a court order to reinstate nearly 800 corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma ahead of local polls next month.

The UN says the government based in eastern Libya is no longer internationally recognized and that the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) is the only official cabinet.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out reconciliation with Egypt in the wake of Ankara’s decision to normalize relations with Russia and Israel last week.

Egypt, one of the two Arab countries that have public diplomatic relations with Israel, has censured Tel Aviv’s recent decision to construct several hundred new illegal settler units in the occupied Palestinian lands.

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has reshuffled his government, introducing a former rebel and eight other ministers.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed serious concerns about renewed fighting in South Sudan despite a peace agreement earlier signed between the Juba government troops and rebels.

At least six people were killed in a bomb attack Friday at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern town of Damboa, Borno state.

Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group have stormed a police station in northeastern Kenya.

The Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists raided a town in northeastern Nigeria Saturday, killing at least seven people.

More than 150 soldiers and civilians were killed during tense clashes in South Sudan’s capital on Friday evening between forces loyal to the president and supporters of the first vice president.

Voices reverberated across Africa in solidarity for Palestine on the annual International Al-Quds Day. With one-third of the world’s Muslim population in Africa, hundreds of thousands on the continent added their voices to global efforts towards Palestine’s liberation.
Al-Quds Day, initiated in 1979 and held on the last Friday of every Ramadan, inspires a humanitarian unity against Israel’s oppression of Palestine, according to Achmad Cassiem, a former South African political prisoner.
“Africa does not localize an important demonstration of such nature, but we share in it, as the pain is one all of Africa can identify with,” he told Anadolu Agency.

The Intl. Quds Day was commemorated at Iranian Embassy in Tunisia on Friday with participation of some 300 diplomats and religious and cultural figures including Tunisian scholar Muhammad al-Tijani.