Some 160 people have been placed under medical surveillance over the deadly Ebola virus in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State.

An anti-government alliance in Egypt has called on its supporters to hold a rally to protest the worsening situation in the North African country.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has fired ministers and top government officials who defied an order to come back to the African country which is fighting against the deadly Ebola epidemic.

South Africa’s former Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has been accused of being involved in the killing of 34 mineworkers at Marikana in 2012.

Nigeria has delayed the start of the country’s school year by one month over concerns on the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

US officials say the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has secretly sent warplanes on bombing raids against militias in Libya using Egypt’s air bases.

Thousands of Nigerians living in the northeastern parts of the country have escaped violence by Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

A court in Egypt has decided to postpone the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and a number of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

Thirty-five Nigerian police officers sent to a training academy in the country’s northeast have gone missing after an attack by Takfiri Boko Haram militants on the facility.

The top Islamic authority in Egypt has launched an online campaign saying that ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria and Iraq should not be called an "Islamic State."

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has confirmed its first cases of Ebola, becoming the fifth African nation to confirm cases of the deadly outbreak.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants have seized control of a riot police training academy outside a village in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State, a media report says.

A UN official says the number of crimes against aid workers in the Central African Republic (CAR) over the past year have reached an all-time high.

Some 170 African migrants on board a boat have gone missing at sea off the Libyan capital Tripoli, a coastguard official says.

The Sudanese Health Ministry has announced that flash floods triggered by heavy rains have claimed 77 lives and left 227 people injured across the North African country.

South Sudan's government troops and rebels have engaged in heavy fighting, violating a ceasefire signed in May.

Medical charity group Doctors Without Borders has warned that the Ebola outbreak is moving faster than aid organizations can handle.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on governments to avoid panic and fear in the face of the threat posed by Ebola virus, which has so far killed more than 1,000 people.

Unknown attackers have shot and killed Tripoli police chief Colonel Mohamed al-Suissi in the Libyan capital’s eastern suburbs.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has once again warned the warring parties in South Sudan that it is prepared to impose sanctions against either side that threatens ongoing peace talks.