Egypt’s public prosecutor says 48 suspected members of so-called Islamic State (IS) have been referred to a military court in connection with three bombings of Coptic...
A group of the “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of a...
A schoolgirl believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram three years ago has been rescued by government troops while “escaping from captivity”, Nigerian officials said on...
Mutinous soldiers have opened fire in four big cities in Ivory Coast, defying a government order to lay down their weapons. Shots rang out near the...
A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of people. Hospitals in the city, which...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London on Sunday for follow-up medical tests after weeks of mounting concern about his health. Femi Adesina, his spokesman,...
More than 30 people – almost all of them school children – have been killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania, officials say. They say...
No traces of explosives were found on the remains of French victims aboard an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May 2016, a source...
Somalia’s security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said. He was killed in his vehicle...
Pope Francis has landed in Cairo on a visit overshadowed by a series of recent attacks against Christians in the Arab world’s most populous country. Amid...
Air raids in northern Sinai have killed 19 members of Egypt’s ISIL affiliate, including three of its leaders, according to the Egyptian military. There was no...