An explosion in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula has killed four soldiers and injured four others as deadly violence continues unabated in the region, a report says.

Ghana’s regulatory body for judges has dismissed over a dozen judiciary officials while a dozen more are still under corruption investigation.

Over two weeks of clashes between rival militiamen in central Somalia have left at least 20 people dead, 120 wounded and forced some 90,000 from their homes, the UN says.

Moroccan naval forces have retrieved the bodies of at least 11 African refugees after their boat capsized off the coast of Morocco in the Atlantic Ocean, a local media report says.

The United Nations has warned the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that its crackdown on opposition groups ahead of the 2016 presidential election could “compromise the credibility” of the electoral process.

The United Nations (UN)’s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned a recent triple bombing attack by the Boko Haram terrorist group that killed at least 27 people on an island on the Chadian side of Lake Chad.

Libyan parliament and the General National Congress (GNC) have signed a declaration of principles in an attempt to end the armed conflict in the North African country.

A Nigerian woman has been killed in violence during polls to elect a new governor in the southern state of Bayelsa.

Police in Nigeria have detained a dozen suspects linked to the discovery of "sleeper cells" operated by the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group in and around the capital, Abuja.

At least 16 people have been killed and several others wounded in a firebomb attack at a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, security officials say.

Some 700 Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to join the ranks of Daesh and other terrorist groups operating in the Arab country, a Tunisian minister says.

A significantly low turnout of about 28 percent has overshadowed the first parliamentary elections in Egypt since 2013 when the military ousted former president Mohamed Morsi.

Tunisian President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi has declared “war against terrorism”, calling for international cooperation against extremists.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for the deployment of an extra number of 1,100 peacekeeping forces to South Sudan as unprecedented level of violence continues to grip the African country.

At least 12 people have lost their lives and 16 others have been injured in a bomb blast targeting a bus carrying presidential guards in Tunisia, the Interior Ministry says.

Clashes between several rival armed sides and a drone strike in Somalia have killed at least 22 people in the African country.

At least six people, including one election judge, have been killed in bomb explosions targeting an area outside an Egyptian hotel in North Sinai, state media reports say.

A car bomb attack claims the lives of at least five Libyan security guards east of the capital Tripoli.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the "horrific terrorist attack" at a luxury hotel in Mali, warning that the violence is targeting peace efforts in the country.

Mali has declared a state of emergency and three days of national mourning following a deadly hostage crisis that claimed the lives of more than 20 people, including foreign nationals.