The United Nations (UN) says the latest wave of terrorist attacks by Takfiri Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria has forced around 20,000 people to flee their homes to other countries.

Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has unveiled his 26-member cabinet nearly a month after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud appointed him to the top job.

A former aide to ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been released from jail after 18 months in detention without charge, relatives say.

East African foreign ministers have met in the Somali capital city of Mogadishu to discuss ways to end deadly clashes in Somalia.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned a recent wave of deadly attacks carried out by Takfiri Boko Haram militants in Nigeria.

Algerian coast guards rescue 20 citizens not long after they set off for illegal immigration.

Sierra Leone, one of the three worst Ebola-stricken West African countries, has managed to curb the Ebola outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nation’s officials say.

At least three Egyptian security forces have sustained injuries in an attack by unidentified gunmen southwest of the capital, Cairo.

Moroccan Ambassador to Egypt Mohammed Saad Alami has reportedly returned to his country amid rising tensions between Rabat and Cairo.

Unknown gunmen have shot dead two Egyptian police officers who were standing guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city south of the capital Cairo, local security sources say.

Thirteen Coptic Christians from Egypt who were held in Libya’s coastal city of Sirte a few days ago have been freed, a tribal leader says.

Terrorists have ruthlessly slit the throat of a policeman in Tunisia before stabbing him to death.

Judicial authorities in Egypt have ordered the confiscation of the assets of 112 opposition figures, mostly from the Anti-Coup Alliance led by the Muslim Brotherhood, Press TV reports.

A new round of negotiations brokered by the United Nations (UN) and aimed at easing tensions between different warring sides in the North African country of Libya has been delayed.

Somalia has dismissed rumors that there has been an outbreak of Ebola in the country.

Exiled Gambian opposition leader Sheikh Sidia Bayo, accused of taking part in a foiled military coup against the country's President Yahya Jammeh last week, has been taken into custody, police say.

At least 100 armed men have been killed after a cross-border attack against the African nation of Burundi from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a top military source says.

West African countries still have a long way to go to beat back the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, a senior UN official says.

A group of heavily-armed militants has shot dead 17 soldiers and one civilian in a troubled part of central Libya, officials say.

A car bomb has exploded outside the headquarters of the internationally-recognized Libyan parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk.