Eastern Libya has declared an autonomous regional government with an official ceremony to challenge the weak central government’s failure in assuming unifying power over rebels and various tribes.
At least 30 members of a wedding party are dead after being ambushed on a rural road in Borno State on north-eastern Nigeria, according to multiple media reports.
South Africa's Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane says her country is going to “slow down” its ties with the Israeli regime because of regime’s continued violation of Palestinians’ rights.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has left Tehran for South Africa on his first official visit to the African continent as foreign minister.
Three Egypt policemen have been shot dead when masked gunmen launched attack on a checkpoint in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, security sources have said.
Thousands of opposition activists have protested in central Tunis, demanding the resignation of Tunisia's government.
Libya's military police chief, Colonel Mustapha al-Barghathi, has been shot dead in the restive eastern city of Benghazi.
Amnesty International accused Egypt Thursday of unlawfully detaining and deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees, many of them women and children fleeing civil war at home.
An Egyptian military fighter jet has crashed in village near the tourist city of Luxor, killing at least one person and injuring two more, local officials report.
Several Egyptian police officers have reportedly been injured during an assault by armed assailants on a bus near Sheikh Zuweid in the Sinai Peninsula.