Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called for independent states to step up their cooperation regardless of disruptive attempts by arrogant powers.

The United Nations (UN) has urged South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to the country’s capital to serve in a unity government, as part of an August 2015 peace deal with rival President Salva Kiir.

An Egyptian court has postponed the pronouncement of its verdict in the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on charge of spying for Qatar, saying it needs more deliberations.

The Darfur region in western Sudan has voted in a referendum against reunification of its five states into one entity.

An explosion has rocked Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, killing three Egyptian military forces, local media say.

Clashes have erupted in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a police officer killed a street vendor reportedly over the price of a cup of tea.

A rocket attack on a police convoy in Egypt's troubled Sinai Peninsula has left three officers dead, the interior ministry says.

An Egyptian opposition politician has launched legal proceedings against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over his decision to hand the control of two strategic Egyptian Red Sea islands over to Saudi Arabia.

Three Somali civilians have lost their lives in a shooting incident by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, police and witnesses say.

The death toll from a raid carried out by gunmen in Ethiopia's border with South Sudan has risen to more than 200 people, officials say.

Sudan has called on neighboring Egypt to discuss two contested border areas near the Red Sea, days after Cairo transferred the ownership of two islands to Saudi Arabia.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and visiting French President Francois Hollande have inked economic and military agreements amid heightened national protests against Sisi’s policies.

At least 140 people, including women and children, have reportedly been killed after gunmen attacked an area near Ethiopia's border with South Sudan.

French and German foreign ministers have made a surprise visit to the Libyan capital of Tripoli in a show of support for a unity government in the war-torn nation amid new clashes in the east that killed 15 security forces.

Egyptian police in Cairo fired tear gas at protesters Friday during a demonstration in condemnation of President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi’s recent decision to give away two islands to Saudi Arabia.

Egypt's police have "encircled" major routes into Cairo as the government attempts to prevent a planned protest over the decision to hand two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

An explosion has struck a vehicle in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing all the three occupants.

Six Turkish crew members of a cargo ship have been abducted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria.

Four oilfields have been shut down and employees in a fifth oilfield have gone on strike in Libya over fears that the Daesh terrorist group may attack the facilities.

Egypt had informed Israel about its intention to give away two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, and had received Israeli blessing, Israeli media say.