The UN has expressed deep concern over Boko Haram’s threat of selling into slavery hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by the group's fighters in Nigeria.

French troops have come under attack from some 40 armed unidentified gunmen in the northwest of Central African Republic (CAR), French army sources say.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in South Sudan in a bid to demand the involving sides of the conflict end the four-month-old clashes in the country.

Tunisia's presidential and parliamentary elections will possibly be held in the second half of November, the head of the African country’s election agency says.

The recent mass death sentences handed down to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters is a sign of “decay” in the country ruled by a junta, a political activist tells Press TV.

The United Nations has expressed grave concern over the recruitment of more than 9-thousand children by armed groups in war-weary South Sudan.

The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern over the condition of human rights in strife-torn South Sudan and urged both sides to respect cessation.

A car bomb blast at an army camp in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi has killed two soldiers.

A senior leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says mass death sentences against him and other members of the group will result in the downfall of military-backed authorities.

Egyptians have held a demonstration in the capital, Cairo, to express opposition to the controversial protest law.

Egypt military-installed prosecutors have sentenced the spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party to 15-day detention over allegations of inciting violence against security forces.

Muslim residents of the Central African Republic (CAR) have advocated calls for the establishment of a new state to be located in the north of the country.

More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between government forces and militants in northern Nigeria, as the search for nearly 200 abducted schoolgirls continues.

South Sudan has released from prison the last four men accused by the government of attempting to launch a coup in the country.

Deployment of foreign troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) has failed to normalize the situation in the crisis-hit country, a political analyst tells Press TV.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 19 anti-government protesters to ten years in prison each, judicial sources say.

Dikanga Kazadi, the interior minister of the province, said on Wednesday the accident took place near the town of Likasi where the passenger train sped off the rails due to its high speed.

Egyptian security forces and student protesters have once again clashed at several universities across the country.

At least four people, including two police officers, have been killed in a car bomb explosion in the Kenyan capital.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked his army chief following the fall of a major oil hub to the hands of rebels led by the former vice president, Riek Machar.