Egypt says it will double the width of a buffer zone being constructed along the border with the Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past seven years.

At least 15 people have been killed after suspected Takfiri Boko Haram militants launched a deadly raid in a border town in northeastern Nigeria, eyewitnesses say.

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Libya’s Interior Minister Omar al-Sinki has pleaded for international help to prevent a massive fire at the North African country’s largest oil terminal from spreading.

The cases of 15 individuals alleged to be members of the banned Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement have been referred to a military court in Egypt on violence-related charges, state-media report.

Around 1,000 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked five villages in northern Cameroon during the weekend, briefly seizing a military camp.

Exit polls show former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi has the lead in the country’s run-off presidential election as vote counting is still underway.

Egyptian forces have killed at least 5 militants belonging to an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in an area northeast of the capital, Cairo.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the United Nations peacekeepers are collaborating with the Central African Republic (CAR) in order to prevent hundreds of Muslims trapped in the country’s western region from leaving.

Hundreds of minors aged between 14 and 17 are serving illegal detention in a filthy prison in Banha, north of Egypt’s capital city of Cairo, a human rights organization says.

Six people have died and more than two dozen others have been injured in a collision between a bus and a train in northeastern Tunisia.

Egyptian security forces have detained five people during a fresh anti-government protest staged by supporters of the country’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi.

Muslims in Nigeria have held the annual Arba’een mourning rituals, which mark 40 days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussain (peace be upon him).

At least 27 Takfiri Boko Haram militants have been killed in a fierce exchange of fire with Nigerian army forces in the country’s northeastern state of Borno.

Canada has announced the temporary closure of its embassy in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to the public amid ongoing fears over security.

A Ugandan maid has pleaded guilty to a charge of torturing an 18-month-old baby girl after a video of her allegedly abusing the child was posted online.

Lava from an erupting volcano on the Cape Verde, located off the coast of West Africa, has reportedly reached a second village.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has slammed the US for its interventionist policies, which he says are responsible for “all the suffering” in the Arab world.

Egypt has enacted a new rule that bars its citizens from traveling to Turkey without a permit, to prevent them from joining the ISIL Takfiri terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.

Nigeria has reportedly seized a Russian-made Antonov transport plane on its way to Chad.