The United Nations has said that more than 10 million people who have fallen victim to Boko Haram attacks are in dire need of aid in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
At least 10 people were killed and 15 others were injured in a train crash on Wednesday in Egypt’s northern province of Beheira, the health ministry said.
Twenty-three people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, according to an official toll on Wednesday.
Nigeria's President,Muhammadu Buhari has received the backing of his party's national executive committee to seek re-election in next year's elections.
The government of Rwanda has closed down a total of 714 churches in different parts of the country's capital Kigali for failure to meet minimum standards for their operations.
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo later this year before anticipated and overdue elections.
South Africa's parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion seeking to amend the country's Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
