At least 12 Somali and African Union forces have been killed by the al-Shabab militant group in Somalia.

Four Italian construction workers have been abducted in the western Libyan city of Mellitah, Italy’s Foreign Ministry says.

France has delivered the first batch of twin-engine and multirole Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft to the military-backed government in Egypt.

A rights organization has denounced the recent strong-arm crackdown by Egypt’s military-backed government on peaceful protesters that killed at least six people, Press TV reports.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on South Sudan’s warring factions to end hostilities and reach a compromise.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have killed dozens of civilians during a series of recent violent attacks on four villages in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, local residents and security sources say.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has arrived in Burundi for crisis talks as President Pierre Nkurunziza is preparing to run for a controversial third consecutive term in office.

At least 10 people have lost their lives in attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group on two hotels in Somalia, police officials say.

Tunisian authorities find the bodies of 27 migrants off the Mediterranean shores.

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by his Eminence Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky have joined their counterparts in other parts of the world to condemn the brutal occupation of al-Aqsa mosque and suppression of Palestinians.

New attacks by unidentified assailants in the northwestern state of Zamfara in Nigeria have killed at least 32 people amid a recent escalation of terror attacks in the African country.

On 2 August 2013 tens of Brotherhood supporters attempted to storm the Media Production City.

Burundi rejects U.N. mediator after critical report about elections.

The Tunisian government has declared a state of emergency just over a week after a deadly terrorist attack near the country’s coastal city of Sousse claimed the lives of dozens of people, mostly foreign tourists.

The intensified army offensive comes after simultaneous attacks claimed by Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis on Wednesday left at least 17 soldiers dead.

Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists have killed scores of people in what the Nigerian president has described as “most inhuman and barbaric” attacks.

Three separate car bomb attacks carried out simultaneously have killed at least ten people in Libya’s eastern city of Derna.

Two civilians have been killed in Egypt during protest rallies held by the supporters of the country’s former president, Mohamed Morsi, on the second anniversary of his ouster, Press TV reports.

The Southern African Development Community have decided to send a team to the Kingdom of Lesotho to investigate the murder of a former military commander

Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have killed nearly 200 people in fresh attacks on homes and mosques in Nigeria in two days, reports say.