An Egyptian court has postponed its final verdict in the retrial of the country's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Nearly 50 Nigerian parliament members have angrily left the legislature’s lower house after a motion to probe a huge cash arms deal worth $9.3 million with South Africa was blocked.

A prominent American health organization has issued a report predicting that up to 1.4 million people could be infected by the Ebola virus by next January if preventive measures do not prove effective soon.

The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo says the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is “almost over.”

The Libyan parliament approves Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani’s cabinet ministers after rejecting a previous line-up last week.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Saturday the trial of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and 35 other defendants accused of espionage to September 29.

Nigerian security agencies are reviewing information that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group, may have been killed in a battle with the military, a person familiar with the investigation was quoted as saying by Bloomberg at the weekend.

At least 40 migrants have gone missing off eastern Libya while onboard on a raft heading to Europe, an Italian coast guard official says.

Amnesty International has censured the Egyptian government for denying proper medical care to a jailed political activist who has been on hunger strike over the past 230 days.

A roadside bomb explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has claimed the lives of at least two policemen.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has summoned Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to appear in court, accusing him of withholding certain documents related to his crimes against humanity trial.

Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of routinely torturing and abusing men, women, and children as young as 12 years of age.

Over 20 people have been killed and scores of others injured in an attack by Boko Haram Takfiri militants on a local market in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on all sides involved in the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) to put an immediate end to the violent clashes in the country.

Only 26 people have been rescued out of the 250 African emigrants on board a boat that sank off Libya’s coast while heading for Europe.

Libya’s newly-elected parliament has dismissed the governor of the country’s central bank.

Tunisian former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s last foreign minister, Kamel Morjane, has announced his intention to stand in the country’s upcoming presidential election.

A group of Egyptian journalists and political activists have held a hunger strike in protest at a controversial law adopted last year that imposes stringent restrictions on public demonstrations.

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has been found guilty of culpable homicide for shooting dead his partner.

Nigeria’s army forces are fighting Boko Haram Takfiri militants near Maiduguri, which is the capital of the northeastern state of Borno, to halt any attack on the city, local residents say.