Nigerian security sources say suspected members of the Boko Haram Takfiri militant group have raided two villages northeast of Nigeria despite the announcement of a ceasefire.

Egyptian security forces have attacked student protesters at universities across the country, tightening their crackdown on student activism.

Algerian troops have reportedly killed eight suspected militants in the country’s eastern Bouira region amid search for an al-Qaeda splinter group involved in the beheading of a French tourist.

Protesters in Nigeria are planning to hold a rally to mark the six-month anniversary of the abduction of 219 school girls by Takfiri Boko Haram militants.

The United Nations has called on authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to carry out criminal investigations into acts of violence committed by the former March 23 movement (M23) rebels in the eastern part of the African country between April 2012 and November 2013.

Police have arrested 40 supporters of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood during protests held following Friday prayers.

An Egyptian court has sentenced eight men, including two Muslim Brotherhood leaders, to fifteen years in prison over alleged maltreatment of a lawyer during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former dictator, Hosni Mubark.

Anti-balaka militants in the Central African Republic (CAR) have called on the country’s president and prime minister to step down.

Takfiri Boko Haram militants have beheaded seven people in northeastern Nigeria, according to local residents and an official.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has travelled to The Hague to attend the International Criminal Court (ICC) over charges of crimes against humanity.

The mayor of Cape Town has suspended plans for the South African legislative capital to hold the annual Nobel summit over allegations of a government refusal to grant visa to the Dalai Lama.

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has pledged to keep its peacekeepers in neighboring Mali a day after nine of them were murdered by armed gunmen.

The Nigerian army has extended a travel ban on the country’s northeastern state of Borno over concerns of attacks by Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

The top United Nations envoy to Libya called today a historic day as the political dialogue aimed at resolving the crisis in the country got under way in the town of Ghadames.

Liberia's chief medical authority has quarantined herself following her deputy’s death from the deadly Ebola disease.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni and his cabinet have been sworn in to office, days after lawmakers approved of his cabinet line-up.

One of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls apparently abandoned by her captors and found by villagers on Wednesday is four months pregnant, Daily Trust learnt yesterday.

People in the Democratic Republic of Congo have protested government attempts to change the Constitution to allow President Joseph Kabila to stay in power beyond his two-term limit.

A number of countries have called on Libyan leaders to find a peaceful solution to the political and military turmoil that has gripped the country since the overthrow of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.

The World Health Organization has announced that two experimental vaccines to cure the fatal Ebola virus will be ready by 2015.