At least four people have been killed in separate attacks carried out by militants in the restive Egyptian governorate of North Sinai.

At least seven bodies have been found in a town in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a Uganda-based rebel group has reportedly been active in the past months.

The Egyptian army says it has killed 725 militants in the violence-plagued governorate of North Sinai since October last year.

Libya's United Nations envoy says his government will take over the country's capital "by force" from rival militants if the UN-led peace talks between the competing governments do not move forward in the coming days.

Al-Shabab militant group has claimed responsibility for the assassination of a parliament member of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

At least 46 people have been killed in fierce fighting between rival ethnic groups in the troubled northwestern part of Kenya.

At least two United Nations (UN) peacekeepers were killed and 13 others injured when their unit was ambushed by suspected rebels in eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Sudan’s army has claimed that it has shot down an Israeli drone following reports that Israeli warplanes have pounded sites around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, the Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV reported.

The United Nations (UN) says at least 214 young women and girls recently rescued from the the camps of the Takfiri Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria are pregnant.

Four people have been killed and dozens wounded in Burundi when police opened fire on a group of demonstrators protesting against a controversial bid by President Pierre Nkurunziza for a third term in office, which the opposition says is unconstitutional.

John Kerry made a surprise trip to Somalia on Tuesday, officials said, becoming the first US secretary of state to visit the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.

Gunmen have killed dozens of civilians, mostly women and children, in Nigeria in a series of attacks across villages in the country’s central-eastern Plateau State.

An Egyptian prosecutor has summoned 40 people to court over their alleged affiliation with the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.

The chief of staff of Burundi's army has pledged the military's loyalty to the country's authorities as the central African nation is witnessing violent protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s controversial bid for a third term in office.

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud now wants the federal government of Somali to set up an all-inclusive national army and control the government arms falling into the wrong hand.

Kenyan authorities are questioning a legislative employee about a suspected plot to attack parliament in Nairobi, police and lawmakers said on Monday, amid concern after assaults by Islamist militants.

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari has denounced Boko Haram Takfiri militants’ claim of being a religious group, condemning its attacks on civilians and pledging a hard line against the terrorists.

Nigeria has summoned its envoys from South Africa following the recent outbreak of deadly 'xenophobic' violence in the country.

The Human Rights Watch has criticized Egyptian authorities for conducting an unfair and biased trial for the country's ousted president, saying the prosecution was marred by flaws.

Sudan’s government has accused peacekeepers in the country’s western region of Darfur of killing seven civilians, dismissing the UN-African Union (AU) mission’s version saying its forces had repelled two attacks by gunmen.