The Kenyan military says it has rescued "most" of the hostages who were held captive by Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters inside a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in Nairobi.

Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard from Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall as Kenya’s security forces launch a ‘final assault’ against Somali gunmen inside the complex.

Thousands of people have held a demonstration in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, against a recent decision by the government to increase fuel prices.

A 50-member panel tasked with amending Egypt's constitution says the North African country’s new charter will be ready by early November.

Clashes have erupted between supporters and opponents of ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, in the northeastern city of Zagazig, leaving at least eleven students injured.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says two nationals of his country, including a diplomat, are among the dozens of people killed in Saturday’s attack in a partly Israeli-owned shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

The death toll from an attack by Somali militants on a Nairobi shopping mall has reached 59 as an unknown number of hostages are still being held in the Westgate center.

A Kenyan security official says Israeli forces have entered a shopping mall in the capital, Nairobi, where Somali militants have already killed dozens of people and an unknown number of hostages are still being held.

At least two Egyptian soldiers have been wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the troubled Sinai Peninsula, security officials say.

Kenyan security officials say gunmen are still holding hostages inside a shopping mall in Nairobi where they have already killed dozens of people.

Thousands of Palestinians have been left stranded in the besieged Gaza Strip, as Egypt keeps the Rafah border crossing closed.

An anti-coup alliance in Egypt has called on people to hold week-long demonstrations across the North African country, starting Friday.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has appeared in a court in the country’s western town of Zintan accused of “harming state security,” during the 2011 revolution that overthrew his father.

Authorities in Egypt have grounded several metro lines in Cairo after finding unexploded bombs on the tracks in a station.

A Libyan police officer has been killed in a car bomb attack in the country’s eastern city of Benghazi, the latest in a series of violent attacks in the North African country.

Inmates have beaten a Frenchman to death during a quarrel inside a detention center in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Egyptian security sources say.

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has pledged to stand firm until his “last breath” against the military coup that led to his removal in July.

The Seleka, a coalition of rebel groups that took power in the Central African Republic (CAR) in March, shoots, loots and rapes with "complete impunity," Human Rights Watch has said.

An Egyptian police officer has been shot dead in a security operation against militants on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo.

Nigerian officials say at least 87 people have been killed in an attack by the Boko Haram militant group in the northeastern state of Borno.