The World Food Program (WFP) says looters in South Sudan have stolen more than 3,700 tons of food, an amount enough to feed 220,000 people for a month.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council have called on South Sudan's president to free several political detainees who are at the center of efforts to begin a truce in the African country.

South Sudanese government forces are preparing for an offensive on the last key town under the control of rebels, a day after the army recaptured the country's main oil hub.

A new report reveals that the United States has deployed a group of military advisers to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for the first time since early 1990s.

The United States is mulling targeted sanctions against South Sudan due to its rival leaders’ failure to taking steps to end an ethnic conflict that has brought the world’s youngest nation to the brink of civil war, sources say.

European Union member states have agreed to begin a joint military operation in the Central African Republic (CAR).

South Sudanese troops have recaptured Bentiu, the capital of oil-producing northern Unity state, from fighters loyal to rebel leader Riek Machar.

French troops have deployed tanks around the presidential palace in the capital Bangui shortly after the resignations of the president and the premier of the Central African Republic.

The United Nations says death toll from the fighting between South Sudanese government forces and rebels is significantly higher than the 1,000 given so far.

Heavy gunfire has erupted overnight in South Sudan’s capital Juba, witnesses and embassies report.

The president of the Central African Republic has offered amnesty for militias in exchange for disarmament in a bid to stop violence in the crisis-hit country.

Scores of Boko Haram militants have been killed in ground and air raids in the northeast of the country, a Nigerian military official says.

At least five people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a grenade attack on a bus in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has expressed readiness to hold talks with militias in a bid to stop violence in the crisis-hit country.

Fierce clashes have broken out between supporters and opponents of Egypt's deposed president, Mohamed Morsi

Thousands of angry Egyptian protesters have marched on Qatari Embassy in Cairo, calling for expulsion of Doha’s envoy.

A lawmaker and his driver have been killed after a powerful car bomb exploded outside prime minister's office in Somali capital city of Mogadishu, security sources say.

France has started military operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) with French soldiers patrolling in the country’s capital, Bangui.

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has hailed late Nelson Mandela’s commitment to the Palestinian cause.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he will miss his “dear friend” Nelson Mandela, “a man of courage, principle, and unquestionable integrity.”