Egyptian judiciary officials have refused to provide Italy with phone records of subscribers in a probe related to a slain Italian student, saying the request runs counter to the Egyptian constitution.

The Egyptian government has handed over the ownership of disputed Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia amid strong objection from several former officials as well as the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and visiting Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz have finalized a contract for a $16-billion investment fund among several other bilateral accords.

South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar says he will return to the capital Juba later this month to form a unity government with President Salva Kiir as part of their stalled peace deal.

At least four Egyptian army soldiers have been killed in a surprise attack by Takfiri militants against a camp in the North African country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula.

A referendum will be held in Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region on Monday on whether to unify its five states into one, as long demanded by rebels seeking greater autonomy, amid a recent surge of clashes there.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting on Sunday with Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama highlighted Iran’s positive and favorable position with regard to enhanced cooperation with African countries since the very onset of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, noting: “Hegemonic powers are opposed to Iran’s warm relations with Africa and are also the main source of wars, conflicts and supply of terrorist groups, but the remedy to all these problems lies in the proximity of ‘independent countries’ and increased cooperation between them.”

Egyptian armed forces have killed ten militants and wounded at least 13 others in a fresh attack on their hideouts in the troubled North Sinai province.

A grenade attack in Burundi's capital Bujumbura has left four people dead, including a child.

A military court in the Egyptian city of Alexandria has handed down death sentences to eight more supporters of the country’s army-toppled President Mohamed Morsi, Press TV reports.

African leaders have endorsed a proposal by Kenya to push for withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The chief ceasefire monitor in South Sudan says people are dying of starvation in the country's Western Equatoria state ​as warring sides fail to implement an agreed peace deal to end two years of war.

Authorities in Nigeria have come under fire for not providing the results of an inquiry that was supposed to be conducted into a military massacre of hundreds of Muslims in the northern city of Zaria in December last year.

Almost invulnerable to nature’s top predators, the majestic elephants are dwarfed by a raging wave of poaching in Africa. In a dramatic gesture to curb the current ivory trade, which is driving these large mammals to extinction, Kenya has decided to torch largest ever stockpile of confiscated ivory in a star-studded event.

The African Union (AU) has threatened to withdraw from the United Nations if the world body fails to allocate at least two permanent seats at the Security Council to the African nations, Press TV reports

At least two Egyptian police officers have lost their lives and four others sustained injuries in a bomb explosion that destroyed their vehicle in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

Amnesty International says it has discovered five possible mass graves near Burundi’s capital, where a wave of political violence resulted in the deaths of scores of people last year.

Malian military authorities say at least four soldiers have been killed in a gun attack and landmine explosion in the West African country’s northeastern region.

Ten people were killed Friday in a bomb attack at a market in the town of Gombi, Nigeria's restive northeastern region.

An underground fire has engulfed a platinum mine in South Africa, claiming the lives of four people.