At least ten Egyptian police officers have sustained injuries in a bomb explosion that destroyed their vehicle in the North African country’s beleaguered Sinai Peninsula.

A number of Western and Arab states have released a statement calling on rival factions in Libya to accept the UN-brokered agreement on the formation of a national unity government.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail says the turnout on the first day of long-awaited parliamentary election was very low.

University students in South Africa have held demonstrations against government plans to raise tuition fees for next year.

At least 11 people have been killed in two bomb explosions in a northeastern Nigerian village.

Voting begins in Egypt parliamentary elections

At least 42 people have lost their lives when two bomb explosions ripped through a mosque in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

Triple bombings, suspected to be carried out by Boko Haram Takfiri militants, have killed at least seven people in northeast Nigeria, officials say.

Security and medical officials in Egypt say Takfiri militants have abducted three pro-government tribal fighters manning a checkpoint in the North African country’s troubled Sinai Peninsula.

A Nigerian Hajj authority says the number of the country's pilgrims killed in the deadly crush during Hajj rituals in Mina, Saudi Arabia, has reached 145.

Burundi has demanded the replacement of Belgian ambassador to the African country, citing the loss of confidence by the Burundian government in the European diplomat.

At least six people have lost their lives in a “terrorist attack” carried out by unknown militants in the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, the government says.

Egypt has signed a deal with France to buy two warships that were originally ordered by Russia but whose sale was canceled by Paris due to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Nearly 40 people have been killed in three explosions in the Chadian city of Baga Sola near the border with Nigeria.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Congolese capital in support of President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s bid to extend his rule.

Nigeria’s Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a Chadian base near the border, killing 11 soldiers and injuring over a dozen others.

Two women have been killed and three policemen injured in two separate attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Press TV reports.

Poachers in Zimbabwe’s northern and western national park have poisoned to death 14 elephants by cyanide.

September's violent clashes in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, have left more than 60 people dead and 300 others injured, an official says.

Egypt says Russia’s anti-terror airstrikes in Syria will restrict the spread of terrorism and deal a major blow to the Daesh terrorist group in the violence-torn Arab country.