At least two Egyptian policemen have been killed when unidentified armed men opened fire on them in the North African country’s embattled Sinai Peninsula.

The Libyan Red Crescent says the bodies of nearly 100 refugees have washed up on the North African country’s shores over the past few days.

The UN has warned that Burundi risks sliding back into civil war due to a dramatic upsurge in killings following the controversial re-election of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

At least one Egyptian police officer has been killed and another injured in an attack by armed men against their patrol vehicle in Egypt’s central province of Giza, Press TV reports.

The United Nations (UN) says a recent wave of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has claimed the lives of nearly 40 people, and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Violent ethnic clashes in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui, have left more than 36 people dead and around 80 others injured.

The death toll in a roadside gunfight involving a convoy carrying Mozambique's opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama has risen to 20.

Thousands of people have held a mass demonstration in the Republic of Congo to protest against plans by President Denis Sassou Nguesso to extend his rule.

Egyptian authorities have arrested the head of an activist group that played a key role the country’s 2011 revolution against former dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Burkina Faso’s elite presidential guards, who recently staged a coup in the country, have signed an agreement with the army, pledging to withdraw from their positions.

The death toll from a car bomb attack on the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has risen to nearly a dozen.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has condemned the escalation of violence in the eastern city of Benghazi, calling on the country’s warring parties to make efforts to reach a peace deal as soon as possible.

Three explosions have ripped through the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killing at least 8 people.

At least two people have been wounded in a bomb explosion in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Egypt’s forensic doctors have admitted that "barbaric torture” had been behind the death of an activist while he was in police custody in the capital city of Cairo, Press TV reports.

Egyptian government forces have killed nearly a dozen militants in the Sinai Peninsula as they press ahead with clean-up operations in the restive region, Press TV reports.

The United Nations special envoy Bernardino Leon says Libya's rival parties are closer to reaching a peace deal.

Dozens of dissident have died across prisons Egypt in August alone, says an NGO.

Egyptian police and army forces have accidentally opened fire on a Mexican tourist convoy during clashes with militants, killing 12 people and injuring several others, Egypt’s Interior Ministry says.

Hundreds of Tunisians have held a demonstration in protest against a controversial draft law that offers amnesty for corruption offences committed during the rule of ousted dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Press TV reports.