Egypt's military-backed interim President Adly Mansour has extended the state of emergency in the North African country by two months amid the deteriorating security condition.

Ten Boko Haram militants have been killed in an operation carried out by the Nigerian army in the northeastern restive state of Borno.

Clashes have erupted between supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and security forces, leaving one pro-Morsi protester dead and nine others injured in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The last prime minister under ex-Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak says he will support army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egypt’s university students who support the Muslim Brotherhood have criticized the government for granting university security personnel the power to arrest and detain students.

Top leaders of Tunisia's ruling party and the main labor union UGTT held a meeting on Tuesday in a bid to make a compromise amid the political crisis triggered by the assassination of a major opposition figure late last month.

Two Boko Haram commanders were shot dead in an operation launched by a combined special security force in Mubi area of northeast Nigeria's Adamawa State, the military said on Tuesday.

A nationwide strike by thousands of gold miners came to a complete end on Sunday after workers at Harmony Gold accepted a final offer from the company.

The death toll from the twin explosions against a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has risen to 18, police said Saturday.

Death toll of the rebel attacks in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno hit 50 on Tuesday, in a fresh account of the incident by the traditional chief of the affected Konduga Village.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has departed the country for a five-day state visit to India, where she will be awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize, according to an official statement reaching here on Monday.

Unidentified gunmen have attacked an army vehicle carrying Libyan soldiers near the coastal city of Sirte, killing two of them and injuring another.

Kenyan Vice President William Ruto has left for The Hague, one day ahead of the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity.

Tunisian security forces have killed two militants and arrested two others with officials stating that they were linked to recent assassinations of opposition politicians.

Nearly 70 people have been killed in clashes between troops of the new government in the Central African Republic (CAR) and fighters claiming loyalty to toppled president, Francois Bozizé.

Former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi’s daughter, who was kidnapped last week, has been released, a member of her tribe says.

Nelson Mandela's is no easy act to follow, the cast and crew of a new biopic on the anti-apartheid icon said Sunday at the film's world premiere.

Tens of thousands of protesters in Tunisia have taken to the streets to call for the resignation of the government amid the political crisis in the country.

A blockade by armed groups on key Libyan oilfields and terminals has paralyzed the North African country’s oil industry, choking output to a tenth of normal levels.

At least two Egyptian soldiers have lost their lives in a roadside bomb explosion in the troubled Sinai Peninsula, security sources say.