Scores of people have taken to the streets in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, calling for an end to the sexual assaults against women in the country.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi delivered an address after his inauguration on Sunday.

Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has officially taken office as Egypt’s new president at a ceremony at the Ittihadiya presidential palace.

Colonialist governments are spreading war across the African continent under the cover of battling terrorism, an analyst writes for Press TV.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is taking measures to further cooperate with Central African countries in its fight against terrorism amid deadly militancy by the Takfiri militant group, Boko Haram, in Nigeria.

Algeria has reported its first two cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), better known as the MERS virus.

Cairo — Egyptians will head to poll stations on Monday starting 9 a.m. to choose their future president in the first elections held after former President Mohamed Musri had been ousted last July.

Egyptian militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has dismissed reports that its leader has been killed in the restive Sinai Peninsula.

The proposed cabinet of Libya’s new Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq has won a confidence vote from the parliament.

Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has confirmed resignation of his security minister in the wake of al-Shabab’s deadly attack on the parliament building in the capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 10 people.

A car bomb explosion in a busy street in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano has killed at least four people.

Iran has offered to help Nigeria resolve the issue of the abduction of nearly 300 female students in the African country by the Takfiri terrorist group, Boko Haram.

A reported bomb blast at a presidential campaign rally for Egypt’s former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has injured at least four people.

People in Guinea-Bissau go to the polls to elect a new president in an effort to stabilize a fragile state plagued by powerful cocaine cartels and a military coup since two years ago.

At least 10 people have been killed and over 70 others injured during twin bomb explosions in a busy market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials say.

The Boko Haram terrorist group that has abducted nearly 300 Nigerian girls is reportedly sponsored by the same international political mafia that orchestrates the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the Arab world, a political analyst says.

Libya’s army has imposed a no fly zone over the eastern city of Benghazi after a retired general used warplanes to press a campaign against militiamen there.

Iran has condemned the recent mass abduction of female students in Nigeria as part of an Islamophobia campaign and called for immediate efforts to release the girls.

The United Nations Security Council has imposed sanctions on the former president of the Central African Republic, Francois Bozize Yangouvonda, and two other figures.

Tunisian lawmakers have withdrawn motions to censure two of the country’s ministers accused of trying to bring about normalization of ties with the Israeli regime.