The UN Security Council will vote a resolution on Thursday that takes the first steps toward sending a peacekeeping force to end anarchy in Central African Republic, diplomats said.

Kenya hopes to raise close to $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) in an ambitious international bond issue aimed at revamping crumbling colonial-era infrastructure and accelerating East Africa's largest economy.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has justified the abduction of a man in Libya by US forces as ‘legal and appropriate’.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been blacklisted with the government order to remove the group from the list of approved non-governmental organizations.

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have chanted anti-military slogans outside Cairo University in the capital to defy Egypt's army-backed government.

Ethiopia's parliament has elected Mulatu Teshome to be the country's new president for a six-year term, replacing Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, which has been protesting against the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi since July.

People have taken to the streets in the Libyan city of Benghazi to voice anger at the abduction of a Libyan man by US forces over his alleged role in the bombings of two US embassies.

Libya has summoned the United States’ envoy over the abduction of a Libyan citizen by American military forces in Tripoli.

Egypt's army-backed interim President Adly Mansour has arrived in Saudi Arabia to thank the kingdom, which was the first country to embrace the July ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi, by the Egyptian military.

Libyan soldiers have occupied the office of the country's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan in the capital Tripoli to demand unpaid wages, a report says.

Unknown attackers have fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at a state-owned satellite station on the Maadi suburb of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Gunmen have killed at least five soldiers near Egypt's northeastern city of Ismailiya while a deadly blast hit Sinai Peninsula, killing five people and injuring about 50 others.

On Oct. 5, the same day the U.S. whisked leading al-Qaeda operative, Anas al-Liby, from his home in the Libyan capital to a suspected holding cell aboard a ship in the Mediterranean, it tried a similarly audacious operation in Somalia.

The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli.

Six Somali men went on trial Monday in Madrid accused of trying to attack a Spanish warship in 2012 during an anti-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean.

U.S. interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan al-Qaida operative linked to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa

The death toll from clashes between supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi and police forces has risen to 51 as violence rages on in the North African country.

The Nigerian military says 20 people have been killed in clashes between the army and members of the Boko Haram militant group in the northeast.

The family of a man, captured by US forces in Libya for his alleged role in the bombings of two American Embassies in Africa more than a decade ago, has denounced his arrest as an ‘act of piracy.’