The union of journalists in Egypt has slammed the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for stifling the press in what the union describes as a war against journalism.

The Nigerian Army is said to have killed over 1000 people including none followers of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky when it launched a coordinated attack on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in December last year.

The Northern State Governors Forum (NSGF), in a communiqué issued at its meeting last Friday, called on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) to cooperate with the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the Kaduna State Government to investigate the December military attack on members of IMN in Zaria.

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Nine Boko Haram militants were have been killed in the Kala Balge area of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State as troops pre-empted a massive attack planned on an army base.

Several Muslim students are the beneficiaries of digital Qur’an books from the Iranian embassy in Uganda after participating in a religious recitation competition, last week.

Egyptian police have stormed the headquarters of the Journalists’ Syndicate in central Cairo and arrested two journalists on charges of inciting protest rallies against the government.

At least 15 Somali soldiers have lost their lives in a car bomb attack by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants northeast of Somalia’s capital, military sources say.

The Kenyan government has torched the largest ever stockpile of confiscated ivory in the Nairobi National Park to protest the growing threat of poaching that is pushing the shrinking number of elephants to extinction.

The United Nations Security Council has blacklisted an Indian-flagged oil tanker for illegally carrying crude oil from a Libyan port controlled by militants.

Rights activists have called for the bodies of hundreds of Shia Muslims massacred by the Nigerian army last December to be exhumed for further investigation into the exact number of victims.

A South African court has revised a 2009 decision to drop graft charges against President Jacob Zuma, saying he should again face a trial over a controversial arms deal in 1999.

South Sudan has formed a transitional unity government with 30 ministers sworn in, bringing an end a two-year deadly conflict in the country.

At least three people have lost their lives and 15 others have sustained injuries in the collapse of a six-storey residential building in Kenya's capital Nairobi due to heavy rain and flooding.

Egyptian police arrested at least 237 people during mass protests on April 25 against the government’s recent handover of two strategic islands to Saudi Arabia, says an Egyptian rights group.

South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as first vice president shortly after returning to the capital to form a unity government.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has warned that security forces will respond firmly to planned anti-government demonstrations over his decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia.

Clashes have erupted in the Egyptian capital Cairo during protests against the government’s handover of two islands to Saudi Arabia.

Police in Kenya have used tear gas to scatter opposition leaders and their supporters demanding the dissolution of the country’s electoral commission before next year’s elections.

Iran and South Africa call for strengthening “intelligence and political” cooperation in a genuine fight against violence and terrorism, which pose a serious threat to the Middle East, Africa and the entire world.