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Nigeria's police in northeast state of Yobe on Sunday confirmed the killing of six persons in a suicide bomb attack on a church in Potiskum.
Tunisian security forces have arrested 12 suspects in connection with last week's terrorist attack that left 38 people dead at a hotel in Sousse, a government minister said.
At least 50 army soldiers and officers were killed in a wave of attacks Wednesday on military bases in Egypt's province of North Sinai, an official security source told Xinhua.
Officials from China, Africa, and the World Bank (WB) on Tuesday pledged efforts to strengthen industrial cooperation between China and Africa to boost the continent's economic development at a two-day investment forum held in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
A car bomb killed Egypt's chief prosecutor Monday in the country's first assassination of a senior official in 25 years, marking what could be an escalation in a campaign by Islamic militants toward targeting leaders of a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Terrorists following a call to violence by the Islamic State (IS) militant group staged three high-profile bloddy terrorist attacks in different parts of the world in just one single day on Friday, killing and woulding dozens of innocent people.
Militant group Islamic State claimed responsbility for the Tunisia tourist hotel attack on Friday that killed 39 people including Britons and Germans.
Libyan militias on Monday launched an airstrike on the Islamic State controlled Sirte killing 15 and injuring 10 others, a militia source told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Sierra Leone has recorded two new cases of Ebola in Freetown in the past few days, disproving the assumption that the capital city had already defeated the deadly virus, officials said on Monday.
The China Development Bank (CDB) and the Zambia-China Economic & Trade Cooperation Zone (ZCCZ) have signed a loan of $29 million to improve infrastructure at its Lusaka Park, a senior Chinese bank official has said.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed a death sentence against ousted president Mohamed Morsi over mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising, state-run Nile TV reported.
An Egyptian court sentenced former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to 25 years in prison on Tuesday in a case related to conspiring with foreign groups.