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Kano, Nigeria (CNN) Nigerian troops rescued an additional 160 women and children from Boko Haram days after they found hundreds of other hostages, the military said Thursday.

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has been re-elected for a third term, electoral officials say.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC or CENI) of the Republic of Togo has so far released the results of the Presidential elections from 11 collation centres, which put the incumbent President Gnassingbe Faure Essonzimna of the Union Pour La Republique (UNIR) in the lead with 328,531 votes.

The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active.

Police in the central African nation of Burundi on Sunday clashed with small groups of protestors, witnesses said, the day after the president was declared as candidate for a controversial third term.

South African-owned shops in Malawi have remained closed after calls for a boycott from activists angered at recent xenophobic attacks.

An experimental drug has cured monkeys infected with the Ebola virus, US-based scientists have said.

Nigeria's outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday fired the country's police chief, a surprise move less than six weeks before leaving office that raised questions of a political motive.

More than 300 people have been arrested in South Africa in connection with a wave of violence against immigrants from other parts of Africa, the minister of home affairs says.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria.

A "mysterious" disease has killed at least 18 people in the past several days in south-eastern Nigeria, local officials say.

President John Dramani Mahama has congratulated President Barack Obama for his bold decision to rescind America’s designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants are recruiting heavily in north-eastern Kenya, according to evidence gathered by the BBC.

Ceremonies are to be staged around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

(CNN)The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls a year ago this week captured global attention and inspired the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, but the horrors for Nigeria's children are widespread.

Two people have been killed and another wounded in a shooting outside the South Korean embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, security officials say.

A student has died and more than 100 were hurt in a stampede which followed the explosion of an electricity transformer at a Kenyan university.

About 2,500 people have marched in Kenya's Garissa town in a show of defiance against militant Islamist group al-Shabab following its deadly assault on a local university.