Authority of the Nigerian Defense Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday said the military had embarked on specialized operations to flush out the Boko Haram insurgents from northeast states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.

Tourists visiting Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda will find it much easier and cheaper to travel across the three countries with the official launch of the single tourist visa on Thursday, a milestone in the East African countries’...

The Moroccan consulate in the Libyan capital of Tripoli Thursday came under fire from an unknown source, while no casualties were reported among its staff or visitors, the Moroccan foreign ministry said.

On February 24 King Mohammed VI’s office issued the following statement :”His Majesty King Mohammed VI received on Wednesday a telephone call from French President François Hollande.”

The South African government on Tuesday vowed to curb violence against the lesbians, gays, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (LGBTI) persons.

Egypt has appointed a man with close ties to longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak to become the country’s new prime minister.

In a speech opening the first-ever Moroccan-Ivorian Economic Forum held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire yesterday, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI lauded Cote d’Ivoire’s economic progress and the two countries’ growing economic partnership.

Nigeria’s police in northeast state of Yobe on Tuesday confirmed that gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents killed about 29 students at federal government college Buni Yadi.

The King of Morocco Mohammed VI, accompanied by president of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, inaugurated, on Saturday in Bamako, the Malian section of the Trans African optical fiber cable.

Zimbabwe is streamlining its diamond sector so that only one or two companies remain operational in the southern African country, President Robert Mugabe has said.