Somalia, Nigeria Presidents hold talks in Abuja.

Boko Haram rocket attacks have killed thirteen people in a residential area of the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

Libya’s internationally recognized government has called on the global community to help the fight against the ISIL Takfiri militants, who recently seized a key airbase in the northern coastal city of Sirte.

Two of Burundi's vice presidents of the election commission have resigned and fled the country.

Nigeria’s new president has been sworn in during a boisterous ceremony in the country’s capital amid tight security measures, vowing to bring “increased prosperity” to the country.

Renewed fighting between militant groups operating in Mali’s restive northern areas has forced some 57,000 people to flee their homes over the past four weeks, the UN refugee agency says.

Madagascar’s parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to dismiss the president, Hery Rajaonarimanpianina, for alleged constitutional violations and general incompetence.

France has decided to suspend its security cooperation with Burundi, a French diplomat says, amid a crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Central African country.

Libya's Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani has survived an assassination attempt on his life, the spokesman for his internationally-recognized government says.

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death eight Takfiri militants for using violence against the security forces and belonging to groups that incite terrorism, an Egyptian judicial official says.

Machete-wielding Takfiri Boko Haram militants have hacked 10 people to death in northeastern Nigeria, local officials say.

A Bangladeshi soldier with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali has reportedly been killed and another one injured in a shooting attack by suspected militants in the capital city of Bamako.

A number of police officers have lost their lives in an overnight ambush by Somalia-based al-Shabab militants in the Kenyan city of Garissa, close to the border with Somalia, sources say.

Anas Soliman Shahin was sentenced in absentia over terrorism charges, including joining and funding a terrorist organisation.

The Burundian opposition says many of its figures have gone into hiding in the capital, Bujumbura, after one of the country’s opposition leaders was assassinated.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have launched a fresh attack on northeast Nigeria’ Borno state, killing a number of people and destroying dozens of houses.

Military chiefs will intensify efforts to reach a framework agreement on a joint Arab military force ahead of the 29 June deadline, Egypt's Mahmoud Hegazy reveals

Millions of people begin casting their votes in the general elections in Ethiopia, with the ruling party being expected to keep an overwhelming majority.

Fighting in south Somalia between al Shabaab militants and government forces killed at least 24 people, while a rebel attack in the capital killed three Transport Ministry workers and a lawmaker, officials and the group said on Saturday.

An injured Egyptian soldier has been kidnapped from an ambulance and later killed by ISIL-affiliated militants operating in the restive Sinai Peninsula, security officials say.