At least 75 armed men have been killed in four days of clashes with army troops in west of Uganda near its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the army said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has reached 518.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the leaders of South Sudan's warring sides to resume peace negotiations to end the country’s months-long conflict.

The United Nations has warned that Somalia is sliding back into a severe hunger crisis, as parts of the capital are on the brink of famine.

Nigerian security sources say they have defused an explosives-laden car abandoned near a school in the volatile northeastern city of Gombe.

Doctors without Borders (MSF) says risk-aversion and bureaucracy are increasingly preventing international aid agencies from helping the world’s most desperate people in emergency situations.

Nigerian security sources say over 60 girls and women kidnapped last month by the Boko Haram Takfiri militants have escaped from their captors.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has defended a decision by the administration to lift fuel prices by 78 percent as part of its austerity measures.

Kenya’s Interior Ministry says at least 29 people have been killed in gun attacks on two separate areas on the Kenyan coast.

The Nigerian army says it has killed more than 50 members of the Boko Haram Takfiri group after it repulsed an assault on a military base in a northeastern town.

Uganda’s army soldiers have killed 41 armed men in a battle with tribal gunmen near the country’s border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Desperate Nigerian villagers from the northeast have pleaded for UN protection against the Boko Haram Takfiri militants.

Inter-communal clashes in Sudan have left 150 people dead and 100 others injured in the country’s West Kordofan State.

Rwandan rebels in the Congo have been given a six-month recess by African nations fighting them there to contemplate disarmament.

Egyptian security forces have stepped up their crackdown against anti-government demonstrators in cities across the country, with at least 6 people killed since Thursday.

Nigeria’s military says it has conducted a raid against an “intelligence unit” of the Takfiri group Boko Haram and has arrested its leader.

At least three people have been killed and seven others injured in two separate bomb blasts in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu.

An international aid group has reported that armed men have killed nearly 60 people at hospitals across South Sudan during the country’s ethnic conflict in the past six months.

Nigerian activists have pledged to pile more pressure on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to secure the release of nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Takfiris in April.

The United Nations says more than 50-thousand children could lose their lives because of hunger and disease in conflict-torn South Sudan.