Egypt’s first legislature in more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has convened.
The assembly, elected in November...
Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation.
It means there have been no new infections for 42 days.
Tow-and-a-half thousand people...
30 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses...
Attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening...
Violence from co-ordinated attacks on three Burundian army installations killed 87 people, an army spokesman said, showing the escalating turmoil over the disputed third...
The son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi has been kidnapped by militants in Lebanon.
They are demanding information about the fate of a Shiite...
