Tunisian journalists have gone on strike to show their protest against what they call “attacks on media and freedom of expression,” by the Ennahda ruling government

At least 40 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and 65 others gone missing after clashes with suspected members of the Boko Haram militant group, a report says.

An Egyptian military officer has been killed and three soldiers wounded in a shooting incident in northeast of the capital city of Cairo, security sources say.

Reinforcements have begun arriving for an African peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic

Hundreds of Africans seeking to enter Europe made a coordinated assault on the triple wall that divides Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco on Tuesday

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday he was ready to re-establish normal relations with the "arrogant" Western countries

The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has resigned as chairman of the West African nation's state oil company

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says his government will continue to press foreign firms to surrender the majority of their shares to local partners.

An Egyptian court has ordered freezing of the assets belonging to the top Muslim Brotherhood leaders as the country’s army-backed government steps up its clampdown on the movement.

Egyptian police have arrested a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as part of the army-backed government’s unrelenting crackdown on the movement.

President Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (PRF) has won a landslide victory in parliamentary polls by gaining the majority of the votes, officials announce.

Ugandan teachers have gone on a strike all across the country to show their protest against the government’s failure to meet their demands of 20 percent pay rise, Press TV reports.

The initial tally in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali has put President Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (PRF) in the lead by a wide margin.

The UN Security Council's committee on Libyan sanctions says caches of weapons and ammunition left over in the African country after the collapse of slain dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, are being smuggled into Syria.

Zambian President Michael Sata has threatened to dissolve the country’s parliament, accusing ministers of failing to defend his government from opposition attacks.

Egyptian security forces say a roadside bomb planted by militants in the Sinai Peninsula has injured at least nine police cadets.

Egyptian naval forces have opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off the southern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, arresting two of them.

The military in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has accused Rwandan forces of ‘kidnapping’ one of its officers in the Congolese city of Goma.

Four members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militant group have been killed after being arrested by vigilantes of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a military official says.

The Egyptian army says it will press ahead with its campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, keeping the Gaza Strip closed to the outside world, as the Rafah border crossing to the coastal enclave is still shut.