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 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have killed 44 people, including a legislator, and prevented hundreds of eligible voters from turning up at polling stations and casting their ballots in Nigeria’s presidential and parliamentary elections for fear of reprisal.

Guinea has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions of the African country to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola disease.

Tunisia says its military forces have killed at least nine militants during an operation in the west-central part of the country.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously approved a resolution on Libya which keeps in place an arms embargo imposed against the North African country in 2011.

Nigerians are preparing to go to the ballots shortly to elect the West African nation’s president and parliament amid security threats from the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group.

A siege on a hotel frequented by government officials in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu has ended with the attack leaving at least 17 people dead.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have been cleared from Nigeria’s northeastern state of Yobe, following the reclaiming of the town of Goniri, military says.

The ISIL Takfiri militants have kidnapped as many as 20 medical workers in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte.

Cameroonian soldiers have killed several Boko Haram terrorists during an operation in northern Nigeria in the latest development involving a multinational regional force fighting the militants.

Sierra Leone's vice president has applied for asylum at the US embassy in the capital city of Freetown and is waiting for a decision on his case, a source says.

At least 45 villagers have been killed during an early morning raid by suspected herdsmen in Nigeria’s eastern-central Benue state, an official says.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have torched homes in Nigeria's northeastern town of Baga, forcing residents to flee, witnesses say.

Rare clashes have broken out between ISIL Takfiri terrorists and a powerful militant group in Libya’s central city of Sirte, officials say.

South Africa’s Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane has died in a car accident, Johannesburg confirms.

Egyptian security officials say a bomb explosion in the capital, Cairo, has claimed the life of at least one person.

Al-Shabab militant group in Somalia has reportedly killed three people in the northeastern Kenyan city of Mandera, the latest in its cross-border attacks.

Three Persian Gulf Arab states have pledged to provide Egypt with an aid package of USD 12 billion to help the North African country’s lumbering economy.

The United Nations special envoy to Libya says a decisive phase of negotiations between Libya’s warring factions is set to start next week.

At least one Egyptian army officer has been killed in a militant attack against a security checkpoint in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.