Nigerians have staged protest rallies in several cities to mark the 40th day after the army massacred hundreds of Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria.

Egypt’s president warned Saturday that potential protests on the upcoming anniversary of the 2011 revolution will be faced with a heavy-handed crackdown.

Human rights organizations have called for a full investigation into the deadly attacks by Nigerian forces against Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria late last year.

Armed assailants in Mali have killed at least two soldiers and a security guard in two separate attacks in which four militants were also gunned downed by government forces.

Security forces have ended a siege laid by al-Qaeda militants to a hotel and a nearby restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital, but another assault is underway at a second hotel next to the eatery.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have killed seven people in northeastern Nigeria.

More than a dozen people have lost their lives and at least one person has sustained injuries in a bomb attack targeting a mosque in Cameroon’s volatile northern region near the border with Nigeria.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has asked the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs to formalize its request for the ‎release of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

It was later said that the group become under attack of another Islamist youth group in the city leading to the death of one person. It is not clear yet the attack on peaceful procession of the members of the Islamic Movement was pre-planed or unintentional, but it is clear that Army tries its best to ban all activities of the Islamic Movement

A court in Niger has denied bail to a jailed leading opposition contender in the upcoming landmark presidential elections scheduled to be held across the West African country next month.

Gunmen have killed a police officer and a soldier in an area on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

A major power station in Libya’s second largest city has come under artillery attacks by unidentified “terrorists,” threatening widespread power cuts in east of the country, officials said.

Egypt’s new parliament has convened its inaugural session over three years after the legislature was dissolved by a court ruling.

Nigerian protesters have taken to the streets across the country to demand the release of prominent Shia cleric and the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, reports say,

He announced the cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday while no explanation was given for the move.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has taken several steps toward implementing a stalled peace accord and sharing power with the rebel forces in the country.

Two knife-wielding men have attacked a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada and injured three European tourists, only a day after two men attacked a hotel bus in the capital Cairo.

The United Nations has reported at least 10 new fatalities due to a cholera outbreak among Somali refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya.

Takfiri Daesh terrorists have reportedly launched fresh attacks near key oil facilities in northern Libya.

Niger's army chief has said that the landlocked West African country is close to winning the war against Takfiri Bako Haram terrorist group.