As authorities grapple with protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Mursi in Cairo, security forces are also battling armed assailants in the Sinai Peninsula, along Egypt's ... Read more »
The Joint Task Force says it has arrested a World Health Organization consultant in Borno State and that he also acts as a medical consultant to Boko Haram. Read more »
An Ethiopian cargo plane carrying weapons for the African Union has crash-landed at an airport in Mogadishu, killing four people. Read more »
The Democratic Republic of Congo is sending an elite unit of commandos to reinforce its regular troops in the fight against the M23 rebel group in the east of the country. Read more »
Fresh attacks by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram militants left at least 35 people dead and several others injured in Borno State, military officials said. Read more »
South Sudan's government has started talks with former rebel groups that accepted President Salva Kiir's offer of an amnesty earlier this year. Read more »
A new report by an American advocacy group says the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, is losing control over the rebels that for decades have wrought havoc ... Read more »
The Nigerian army has begun withdrawing peacekeeping troops from Mali. Read more »
Twenty nine people are feared dead and many injured as multiple explosions took place at Christmas quarters in Kano. Read more »
The deployment of drones to monitor militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the deployment of an intervention brigade comprising 3,000 troops, mainly from Tanzania, ... Read more »
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