Liberian President George Weah has been barred from his office for five days by two black snakes that slithered into the building this week, authorities say.

Boko Haram fighters torched a village in Cameroon’s troubled Far North Region overnight and killed 11 civilians in their sleep, security sources told AFP yesterday.

Protest leaders yesterday announced plans to unveil a civilian body to take over from Sudan’s ruling military council as crowds of demonstrators kept up the pressure outside army headquarters and Washington said it will send an envoy to encourage the transition.

More than fifty Boko Haram fighters have been killed in an attack on a multi-national force in northeastern Nigeria, a military

Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison, a family source said yesterday, as doctors marched through

The Sudanese group that led protests against deposed President Omar al-Bashir called for the transitional military council that has taken power to be disbanded and for a new interim civilian ruling council to be formed.

Egypt’s parliament, packed with loyalists of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is set to vote on changes to the constitution that could keep the former military chief in power until 2030.

The US military confirmed Monday that it had killed the second-ranking Islamic State leader in Somalia in an air strike.

At least 174 people have been killed and 758 wounded in the battle for control over the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Or-ganization said yesterday.

Sudan’s military rulers faced pressure from demonstrators and Western governments to hand power to a new civilian government yesterday as activists warned of an attempt to disperse a 10-day-old mass protest outside army headquarters.

The new head of Sudan's military council says a civilian government would be formed after consultations with the opposition and the transition period would last for a maximum of two years, as protesters kept up pressure for rapid change.

Gunfire and blasts echoed through Libya’s capital yesterday as eastern forces fought troops of the internationally recognised gov-ernment in southern Tripoli suburbs, forcing thousands of civilians to flee their homes.

Sudan’s ruling military council yesterday promised the country would have a new civilian government, a day after the armed forces overthrew President Omar al-Bashir, but the proposal was immediately rejected by the main protest group.

At least 50 people were killed in clashes with bandits in northwest Nigeria, which has been riven by cattle rustling and kidnapping, the

Ethiopian investigators urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and said pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had

Hundreds of students hit the streets of the Algerian capital yesterday dismissing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promise to resign as

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted his resignation, state news agency APS said yesterday, following weeks of mass protests against his rule.

At least 11 people died when a bomb exploded on a busy street and ripped into a nearby restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu yesterday, medics said.

Gunmen kill at least 134 Fulani herders in central Mali, a local mayor says, the deadliest such attack of recent times in a region reeling from worsening ethnic and jihadist violence.

Somalia's al Shabaab stormed a government building yesterday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed during the ensuing gun battle.