Burkina Faso’s transitional leaders have announced a new 25-member government, tasked with guiding the country to elections next year.

Six suspects have been arrested in Morocco after a video showed masked men pledging allegiance to the ISIL terror group, which is wreaking havoc on Iraq and Syria.

The presidential vote in Tunisia is likely to go to a runoff as neither of the two leading candidates is likely to win an outright majority.

A bomb has exploded near a railway station in Egypt’s southern province of Beni Suef, the country’s Interior Ministry says.

People in Tunisia have taken to the streets to call for the resumption of diplomatic ties with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Tunisians are casting their votes in the country’s first presidential election since the 2011 revolution, which sparked a wave of Islamic Awakening in the Middle East and North Africa.

Security forces have used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of stone-throwing people protesting a potential re-election bid by the president in the Togolese capital Lome.

The number of people believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus has surpassed 15,300, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Somalia-based al-Shabab militants have executed 28 people in an ambush on a bus in northeastern Kenya, policemen say.

The Human Rights Watch has accused police in the Democratic Republic of Congo of carrying out dozens of extrajudicial killings during an anti-gang offensive.

Egyptian university students have held fresh protests, slamming unabated security crackdown by the government forces.

Egypt has decided to extend the depth of its security buffer zone on its border with the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip from 500 meters to one kilometer, state media say.

Egyptian security forces have stormed the female branch of al-Azhar University in Cairo’s Nasr City to disperse anti-government activists.

At least 12 people have been killed in a bomb attack by suspected militants of Boko Haram Takfiri group at a mobile phone market in restive northeast Nigeria.

The Liberian health minister has been sacked by the president who has been under intense pressure over her government's response to the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

The Nigerian army has recaptured the northeastern town of Chibok from Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

Medical sources say at least 340 people have been killed in fighting in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi since October 15.

Burkina Faso's acting head of state has reinstated the country's constitution which was suspended following the ouster of President Blaise Compaoré.

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has staged a peaceful rally in the city of Zaria to voice its anger at recent assassination attempts on the life of its leader, Press TV reports.

Leaders of the world's most powerful economies have committed to provide all essential services to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.