France has suspended two of its soldiers over allegations that they sexually abused children in Burkina Faso, and asked authorities there to "quickly return" the military suspects, according to the French government.
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At least 11 soldiers have been killed in a wave of attacks by suspected jihadist militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, security officials say.
The Federation of Women Lawyers (Fida) has sued the government for failing to come up with provisions to guide safe abortions.
Some of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria have been forced to join Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the BBC has been told.
A motorcade belonging to Egypt's state prosecutor has been hit by a bomb blast in Cairo, according to security officials.
Hoodlums suspected to be smugglers on Thursday, beat journalist, Yomi Olomofe to coma over accusations of reporting their activities at the Seme-Badagry area.
Elections are being held in Burundi despite an opposition boycott and weeks of protests over President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to seek a third term.
People in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse have held a march to denounce the attack in which at least 38 people, most of them tourists, were killed by a gunman on a nearby beach on Friday.
Around 200 students protesting against President Pierre Nkurunziza's attempts to run for a third term in office managed to break into the US embassy in Burundi after police threatened to break-up their camp outside the compound.
A South African commission has recommended a criminal investigation into police over the deaths of 34 miners during a strike in 2012.
President Obama will welcome the recently elected president of Nigeria to the White House on July 20, lending U.S. support to that nation's first-ever transition to democracy.
Cape Town – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's "spin doctor" Jonathan Moyo has castigated the South African Litigation Centre (SALC), describing it as a "regime change outfit dominated, controlled & run by a white cabal with Rhodie or apartheid links".
The US and other countries have agreed to help Nigeria recover money stolen from the government, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.
A South African court has criticised the government for letting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir leave the country despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
One of Burundi's vice-presidents has fled saying that he could not support the third-term bid of President Pierre Nkurunziza.
Cairo, Egypt (CNN) Summer days: They're what childhood memories are made of, glorious afternoons of unchecked freedom to frolic with friends in the sun, unshackled from the earthly obligations of a math class that never seemed further away.
LAGOS— Dare-devil armed robbers, in commando-style yesterday, held residents of Ipakodo area of Ikorodu in Lagos hostage for about two hours as they robbed two major banks in the area. The scene of the robbery operation was just a stone throw to Ipakodo Divisional Police station. The policemen, who engaged the armed robbers, were, however, overwhelmed.
A car bomb targeting a bulletproof vehicle containing foreigners has killed at least 10 people and wounded four others in the Somali capital, Al Jazeera has learned.