Thirty-one people, mostly Burundian refugees, have lost their lives to cholera outbreak in Tanzania since last week, the UN says.

At least three people have lost their lives and a number of others have been wounded in Burundi after unknown assailants threw two grenades into a market in the capital Bujumbura, police say.

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has signed a decree delaying parliamentary and local council elections by one week.

The Algerian army has killed more than 20 militants as they were meeting to plan attacks on the country’s capital of Algiers, officials say.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says dozens of children have been killed, raped or abducted amid a new bout of fighting between rival militant groups in South Sudan's northern Unity State.

China on Monday said the preliminary death sentence handed out to Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by a court this week is a domestic affair, declining to join other states which have criticised the ruling.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen could pave the way for Takfiri militants through Somalia.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has voiced serious concern over the death sentences handed down to Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, and more than 100 others.

Kenyatta's spokesman said that two leaders had spoken by phone on Sunday.

The Nigerian army has made fresh gains in its fight against Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists, overrunning 10 militant camps in the country’s northeast.

The recent death sentences handed down to Egypt’s first democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi and scores of others have prompted fears in the US and Europe of what experts refer to as a “total war” on the Muslim Brotherhood movement by the government in Cairo.

Al-Shabab militants are holding 14 crew members of an Iranian fishing boat they seized off the coast of Somalia, two Iranian officials say.

Amnesty International has denounced the death penalty handed down to former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as "a charade based on null and void procedures."

The government in Burundi has been accused of repressing the media after foiling an attempted military coup.

Newly appointed US ambassador to Somalia Katherine Dhanaani has withdrawn her nomination, citing personal reasons.

Libya’s internationally recognized government says its forces attacked a Turkish-owned cargo vessel after it entered territorial waters off the North African country "without permission".

The Egyptian justice minister has been forced to resign after stirring controversy following his televised defamatory remarks humiliating the country’s lower class people.

The European Union (EU) has announced the opening of an EU Delegation office to Somalia.

Suspected militants have detonated three explosives outside the residence of an Egyptian judge who handed down death sentences to supporters of the ousted former president, Mohamed Morsi.

Nearly a dozen armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have signed a deal to disarm and to end a conflict which has killed thousands, the United Nations (UN) says.