A bomb exploded near the embassies of Saudi Arabia and Algeria in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, on Saturday, diplomatic sources told Xinhua.

The Federation of Uganda Football Associations has secured an international friendly game for the national team Cranes with Libya ahead of a 2014 World Cup qualifier tie.

Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015.

The Egyptian authority is engaging in negotiations with the Islamic movements which are associated with Jihadists in North Sinai, who are accused of kidnapping seven recruits Thursday to swap their detained relatives, a local security official told Xinhua Saturday.

Residents on Friday said the special military force deployed to the restive Nigeria northeast states of Yobe and Borno cordoned off border roads linking the two states and Adamawa to prevent the Boko Haram militants from fleeing to other neighboring states.

Tunisia's interior ministry confirmed on Friday a ban on a meeting of hardline Jihadi Salafist movement Ansar Al Shariaa in Kairouan city, Mosaique FM reported quoting the ministry's statement.

Ghana's Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Friday called for more communications and cooperation between the ruling parties of Ghana and China.

Suspected militia from Ethiopia on Thursday night killed three local people in the latest attack since the government ordered security crackdown in the restive town of Mandera.

Dozens of people have been killed in a military strike launched by Nigerian army since Thursday night in the northern part of the West African country, according to security sources.

South African soldiers who are training for a United Nations military mission in Congo will be adequately prepared even though the South African army as a whole is overstretched and underfunded, the army chief said Thursday.

Mobile phone service has been cut in areas of northeast Nigeria as the military sends more soldiers to the region to fight Islamic extremists.

A security official in northeast Nigeria says soldiers have shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists fighting in the region, killing at least 21 people.

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.

Egypt's Supreme Judiciary Council decided Wednesday to suspend the preparatory works for a "justice" conference scheduled to be held soon, due to the upper house's decision to discuss a new bill on judicial authority.

An official of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has confirmed the killing of the state secretary of association, Rev Faye Pama Musa in the trouble Nigeria northeast Borno State by suspected Boko Haram gunmen.

At least 11 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack on a village in central north Nigeria, according to security sources.

Nigeria on Tuesday proposed the establishment of a joint commission with Singapore to strengthen the relations between both countries.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the most troubled states in the northeast part of the country.

The Ghanaian government will issue a second Eurobond this year to restructure its existing debts, Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur announced here on Tuesday.

Three people have been confirmed dead after a four-storey building under construction collapsed Tuesday afternoon in eastern Rwanda.