Egyptian authorities have extended by three months a state of emergency in areas of North Sinai Peninsula.

An Egyptian female protester has been killed in clashes with security forces during a rally in the capital, Cairo, on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 2011 uprising against former dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Zambia's defense minister has won the country’s presidential elections on the ruling Patriotic Front party’s ticket amid the archrival’s allegation of voter fraud.

Egyptian security forces have been put on high alert as the North African country marks the fourth anniversary of the revolution that toppled long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak.

The UN says in excess of 3,000 villages were razed to the ground due to deadly conflict in Sudan’s Darfur in 2014.

The upper house of the parliament, Senate, in the Democratic Republic of Congo has scrapped a proposed change to a controversial election law that would allow President Joseph Kabila to extend his stay in power.

The United Nations has called for the “immediate” implementation of a peace deal recently signed between the South Sudanese government and rebel forces loyal to the opposition leader, Reik Machar.

Police forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have opened fire on thousands of protesters opposing President Joseph Kabila.

A court in Egypt has given scores of the Muslim Brotherhood proponents prison terms over several charges as part of the ongoing crackdown on supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has denounced recent atrocities committed by Takfiri Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and neighboring countries in its first formal reaction to the extremist group.

The Nigerian government has announced a cut in gasoline prices a month before presidential and parliamentary elections in the country, which is considered Africa's largest oil producer.

Nigerien police forces have fired tear gas at protesters demanding revocation of a ban on demonstrations against anti-Islam cartoons published by French magazine, Charlie Hebdo.

There were 50 children among some 80 people abducted by Boko Haram’s Takfiri militants in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has threatened to impose sanctions on those who disrupt peace efforts to bring an end to fighting in Libya.

A convoy of about 400 Chadian tanks, with hundreds of Chadian troops, has arrived in neighboring Cameroon to help fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.

Somali university students have poured into the streets in the capital, Mogadishu, to join global Muslim rallies against a sacrilegious cartoon published by French weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Mohammad.

At least six children have died of severe malnutrition in southwestern Somalia, where people are experiencing a famine after over two decades of war.

Police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in Niger, who continued their protest against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad today, AFP reports.

The Anti-Coup Alliance in Egypt calls for fresh week-long protests against President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.

The Boko Haram Takfiri militants operating in Nigeria force kidnapped children and women into acting as “suicide bombers” in the country’s restive northern areas, analysts say.