At least four Tunisian soldiers have been killed and six others wounded during an ambush by al-Qaeda-linked militants near the country’s border with Algeria.

South African authorities have arrested a teenage girl, who was planning to leave the country with the intention of joining the ranks of the ISIL Takfiri militant group in Syria.

An Egyptian prosecutor has referred nearly 190 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a military court over charges of storming a police station nearly two years ago.

French Special Forces have rescued a Dutch hostage held captive by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in Mali for over three years in a dramatic operation that led to a gun battle with his captors.

Kenyans are set to stage a rally for greater national security following a recent massacre by al-Shabab militants at a university in Garissa County.

Somali press freedom advocates lashed out at Somalia government officials on Saturday after news 25 staff members at two radio stations were arrested over their coverage of the Garissa, Kenya, massacre on Thursday.

Authorities have now confirmed the identity of one of the four slain Garissa terrorists, as Abdirahim Abdullahi, a lawyer by profession.

An assailant has blown his vehicle up at a security checkpoint near the western Libyan city of Misrata, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20 others.

The leaders of Central and West African countries plan to hold a summit in an effort to come up with a common strategy to counter the threat posed by Nigeria’s Takfiri Boko Haram terror group.

The head of a militant group in Egypt responsible for deadly attacks in the North African country has been killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in the capital city of Cairo, sources say.

Nairobi has pledged to respond in "the severest ways" to the recent horrendous attack by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab in eastern Kenya.

The top Cairo-based Muslim body al-Azhar has slammed the recent massacre of nearly 150 people at the hands of the Somali militant group of al-Shabab in eastern Kenya.

The Kenyan government has come under fire over its special forces’ response to a university massacre in the eastern town of Garissa that killed nearly 150 people, claims officials deny.

Two separate incidents of violence have claimed the lives of at least five people in Libya as the security situation further deteriorates in the conflict-ridden North African country.

At least 100 terrorists have been killed in the Egyptian army’s strikes against terrorists’ positions in the restive region of North Sinai over the past 24 hours.

Somalia-based al-Shabab militants have threatened Kenyan citizens with “another bloodbath” just two days after their armed men slaughtered nearly 150 people at a university in the eastern part of the country.

Thousands of the supporters of Nigeria’s main opposition party have held a protest against alleged voting irregularities in the country’s recent general elections, calling for the elections to be re-held.

The official results of Nigeria’s presidential election show that opposition leader Mohammadu Buhari has a slight lead over incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, as counting finishes in half of the states in the country.

Egypt's top prosecutor has named several members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement as terrorists under a controversial anti-terrorism law adopted last month.

Tunisians have held a mass rally against terrorism attended by tens of thousands of people including some world leaders, as the country is reeling from a recent terror attack that killed close to dozens in the national museum, Press TV reports.