Twelve civilians have been killed in an attack carried out by Boko Haram terrorists in northern Cameroon, military officials say.

At least 14 soldiers have lost their lives and another 24 have been wounded during the Libyan National Army’s assaults on a camp occupied by the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militants in the capital Tripoli, a military source says.

At least nine people have been killed in an attack by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militants against a government office complex in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

Talks between rival parliaments in Libya on forming a unity administration will resume in the coming days, diplomatic sources have confirmed.

An Egyptian court has jailed a top aide to former president, Mohamed Morsi, further intensifying the crackdown on members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood party.

The death toll from an Al-Shabab attack on Somalia's higher education ministry has risen to 17 people, officials said Tuesday, in the latest deadly attack against Somali government institutions.

An MP Tuesday sensationally claimed Majority Leader Aden Duale was in the know about the Al-Shabaab terror attack on the Garissa University College.

Talks between rival parliaments in Libya on forming a unity administration will resume in the coming days, diplomatic sources have confirmed.

Amnesty International says at least 2,000 women and girls have been kidnapped by Takfiri Boko Haram militants in Nigeria since the beginning of 2014, and many of them have been forced into sexual slavery or combat.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Libya’s rival factions to urgently form a unity government, threatening to impose sanctions against those behind the spiraling violence in the North African country.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized a recent decision by an Egyptian court to confirm the death sentences previously handed down to 14 Muslim Brotherhood members on charges of orchestrating violence in Egypt.

The US and European powers have called on Libya’s rival factions to agree on an “unconditional” truce in a new round of negotiations aimed at forming a national unity government in the war-torn country.

People in Sudan are going to the polls in an election that is expected to extend incumbent President Omar al-Bashir’s 25-year rule.

Unidentified gunmen have attacked South Korea’s embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing at least two security guards, the Asian country’s Foreign Ministry says.

Kenya has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp housing over 600,000 Somalis in Garissa after a recent deadly attack by Somalia-based al-Shabab militants killed nearly 150 people in the eastern Kenyan town.

Nine people have been killed in clashes and protests in southern Nigeria as the country voted to elect state governors and local assemblies.

One person has been killed and several others wounded when hundreds of protesters stormed a UN base in the Central African Republic (CAR), a UN spokesman says.

South African police have arrested over a dozen people following a wave of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in the eastern coastal city of Durban.

An Egypt court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of orchestrating violence following the military ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.

Garissa residents took to the streets shouting anti- Shabab slogans as local leaders want refugees returned to Somalia.