A senior EU official has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the prolonged and deadly war in South Sudan, calling on the sides involved in the conflict to reach a compromise deal.

At least three people have been reported killed and two more injured in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula as the nation’s president extended a seven-month-old curfew imposed on parts of North Sinai for another three months.

Officials from Niger say the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have carried out an attack against the country’s army soldiers in Lake Chad.

The Libya Dawn (Fajr Libya) militia alliance has launched airstrikes against the positions of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in the northern city of Sirte.

Voters in Togo are going to the polls to choose a new president in an election that could see incumbent Faure Gnassingbe win power for a third five-year term.

Suspected Takfiri Boko Haram militants have stormed a town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, forcing hundreds of army troops to flee the restive area.

Nigerian security forces have killed a senior commander of Boko Haram Takfiri militants during a gun battle in the country's northeast, the army spokesman said.

Army troops are going to be deployed in major cities across South Africa to prevent attacks against the immigrants in what could be seen as the last resort to rein in the recent spate of xenophobic violence which has claimed several lives.

At least two Nigerian soldiers have been killed following an attack by Boko Haram Takfiri militants in the troubled northeast Nigeria, local residents say.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Amnesty International have slammed a lengthy jail term handed down to the ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, over the arrest and torture of protesters in 2012.

Kenya will on Tuesday host tripartite talks with the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Somali Government over a pact signed more than a year ago on repatriation of refugees.

Egypt's top Muslim authority, al-Azhar has condemned the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians kidnapped by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Libya.

An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison over protester deaths in 2012.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director John Brennan amid Cairo’s heavy-handed clampdown on opponents of the country’s military-backed government.

At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

At least six UN workers have been killed in a car bomb explosion in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

The federal republic of Somalia has reacted to the ongoing xenophobic attacks and viciously condemned the targeted attacks by South Africans on their fellow Africans, an attack similarly condemned by the Ethiopian prime minister.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says at least 700 people are feared dead after a ship smuggling migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.

A court in Egypt has given death sentences to 11 people over a football stadium riot in the canal city of Port Said three years ago.

Egyptian people have held fresh anti-government protest rallies across the country, calling for the reinstatement of former president, Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in 2013, Press TV reports.