The Nigerian army says offensive against Takfiri Boko Haram militants is continuing after the recapture of the northeastern town of Baga from the extremists.

All 486 South African miners trapped after a fire outbreak at a gold mine have been brought to safety, a source says.

A court in Egypt has sentenced prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in jail.

Unknown assailants have targeted an airfield in eastern Libya with rockets without leaving any casualties or damage.

At least 14 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have been killed in clashes with Nigerien army forces after an attack by the group in southeastern Niger.

A court in Egypt has acquitted a former oil minister, who served under ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak, of charges of selling cheap gas to Israel.

World powers have issued a statement urging a political solution to the crisis in Libya amid calls for military action in the violence-wrecked country.

Two separate bombing attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno have claimed 38 lives while Boko Haram leader has vowed to disrupt the country's upcoming elections.

Four Tunisian police forces have lost their lives in a “terrorist attack” in a western mountainous region near the Algerian border, the Tunisian government says.

The United Nations is withdrawing promised support for an anti-militant operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which was supposed to be jointly carried out with the Congolese military.

Tunisians have staged a protest rally in the country's capital over the Western media's biased coverage of the murder of three American Muslim students in the US

Unidentified gunmen have reportedly opened fire on a traffic police vehicle in the Nile Delta town of Banha in Egypt, killing a police officer and injuring three more.

The Boko Haram Takfiri militants in Nigeria have stepped up attacks in neighboring countries, kidnapping 20 people in Cameroon and exploding a car bomb in Niger.

The United Nations says over 2.5 million people in South Sudan are on the brink of famine amid the destructive civil war in the country.

Niger’s parliament has unanimously voted to deploy troops to neighboring Nigeria to join a regional fight against Boko Haram terrorists.

At least 40 people have been killed during clashes between police and fans before a football match in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

At least five people have been killed in a bomb blast in Niger’s southern border town of Diffa amid growing Boko Haram militancy in the region.

Al-Shabab militants assassinA Somali lawmaker has been killed by al-Shabab militants in the capital Mogadishu as assassinations of politicians in the east African country continue.ate Somali legislator

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohmmad Javad Zarif on Tuesday evening voiced Tehran`s readiness to cooperate with its friend countries on their anti-terror and anti-violence campaign.

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza here on Wednesday appreciated Iran`s all-out support for his country, arguing that Iran is his country`s friend in need, and therefore it`s a friend indeed.