Authorities say at least five police officers have been killed in separate attacks in northern Nigeria.

The Somali government has charged a woman who has said she was raped by security forces, according to an international human rights group, which says the case is politically motivated.

Officials in South Africa say that 57 rhinos have been killed by poachers across the country so far this year.

Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of the town of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding.

Two grenades were thrown earlier Tuesday at a building belonging to UN Support Mission in Libya ( UNSMIL), leaving only property loss, Samer Ghatas, the public information officer of the mission told Xinhua.

Algeria has reiterated determination to boost up security of oil and gas facilities, Minister of Energy Youcef Yousfi said here on Tuesday, on the back of the terror attack that targeted Sunday a municipal guard barrack in charge of securing a gas pipeline in the province of Bouira, 120 km south east Algiers.

Britain has offered French troops more military aid to help in the operation against Mali's Islamist rebels in the former French colony, Britain's top diplomat to France said Tuesday.

China will continue to support Africa's integration process and concerted efforts for common development, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

The International Support Mission for Mali (MISMA) could have at least 8,000 military personnel and police officers to help resolve the crisis in the West African country, a senior official of the regional bloc ECOWAS said Tuesday.

Leaders from African countries and donors from other continents on Tuesday pledged 455.5 million U.S. dollars for Mali's efforts to regain security and peace in the country.

Egypt's medical sources say at least three people have been killed and over 400 others wounded in clashes over an unpopular court verdict in the city of Port Said.

Five Indian sailors who had been abducted by armed assailants off the coast of Nigeria following an attack on their ship, have been released, the vessel's operating company says.

As many as seven people have been killed and over 460 others injured in clashes between protesters and police in the eastern Egyptian city of Port Said.

Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has announced a state of emergency in the cities of Port Said, Suez, and Ismailia following deadly clashes in the country.

Human rights groups and journalists have voiced concern over the information blackout on the number of civilian casualties during the French war in Mali, Press TV reports.

An African Union (AU) official says the continental body monitors the implementation peace agreements in Central African Republic (CAR).

Thousands of people in Mali have been forced to flee their homes amid the French-led war on the West African nation.

French-led forces have taken control of the access points to the Malian desert town of Timbuktu as they continue advancing further across the north of Mali, which is controlled by fighters.

The ruling junta in Mali has imposed strict regulations on the media coverage of a French-led war in Mali as French and Malian troops push further toward northern parts of the West African country.

Nine people have been killed by gunfire during clashes between police and protesters in the Egyptian city of Suez.