Militants from the Boko Haram terrorist group have killed at least 13 people from a village in northeastern Nigeria.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has amended the electoral law ahead of a long-delayed parliamentary vote.

A United Nations peacekeeper has been shot dead in the Central African Republic (CAR) during a firefight with gunmen.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo to resume a US-Egypt “strategic dialogue” that was suspended following the 2011 Islamic revolution.

A major UK-based mining company operating in Zambia has been polluting the drinking water in the African nation to catastrophic levels, prompting legal action in British courts by lawyers representing hundreds of Zambian villagers affected by toxic leaks.

A leader of Egypt’s Muslim brotherhood movement has died in jail due to what human rights groups call “deliberate medical negligence” by prison authorities.

Egypt has decided to extend its participation in the Saudi aggression against Yemen for another six months.

Britain has reportedly re-boosted weapon sales to the Egyptian government in 2015 following a reduction in sales put in place after the military ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi.

Egyptian security forces have arrested 79 members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood movement cross the country in the past 24 hours, Press TV reports.

Tunisia has extended by two months a state of emergency it imposed following a terror attack on foreign tourists in the Mediterranean resort of Port El Kantaoui last month.

Amnesty International has condemned the ongoing violence against Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR), saying Muslims face religious persecution in the country.

A car bomb has exploded at a heavily guarded hotel in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu, leaving at least six people dead.

At least three Egyptian soldiers have been injured by sniper fire while guarding a security checkpoint in the restive northwestern Sinai Peninsula, Press TV reports.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry has announced the detention of 119 Muslim Brotherhood members in the past week on allegations of committing or inciting violence, with 30 arrested within the past 24 hours.

Tunisia has recommenced diplomatic relations with Syria at a consular level after a three-year hiatus in Tunis-Damascus ties, a report says.

Tunisia’s parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law in a bid to counter a growing wave of terrorism in the African country, which saw two fatal terror attacks claimed by the Takfiri ISIL terror group earlier this year.

France has stepped up its weapons sales to Egypt by initiating negotiations on two more corvette warships.

Members of Somali militant group al-Shabab have killed six people, including an MP and a senior government official, in two separate attacks in the capital Mogadishu, police says.

At least 19 people have lost their lives and dozens more sustained injuries in Cameroon’s province of Far North in a bomb attack at a populated place, officials say.

The Nigerian military has reopened a major road in the country’s northeast after it was closed more than one year ago for the clearance of mines planted by Boko Haram militants.