{A new report by the U.N. secretary-general warns that if Burundi's president tries to seek a fourth term it could "plunge the country into an even deeper crisis."} U.N. chief Antonio Guterres' report to the U.N. Security Council cites recent comments by President Pierre Nkurunziza that he might pursue a fourth term if Burundi's people […]

{A suicide bomber driving a garbage truck packed with explosives rammed his vehicle into an Egyptian security checkpoint outside a police building in northern Sinai on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding 10, officials said.} According to security and medical officials, the attack in the city of el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula was […]

{More than 100 opposition fighters from South Sudan crossed the border into Congo "in extremely bad shape" and were evacuated to health facilities for medical treatment, the United Nations said Wednesday.} Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the United Nations is consulting with the governments of Congo and South Sudan "with a view of finding […]

A Republic of Congo opposition party has called for the unconditional release of political prisoners and easing of arbitrary arrests. The Pan-African Union for Social Democracy's statement issued overnight Sunday follows a similar request last week by Amnesty International. Gen. Jean Marie Michel Mokoko, an independent candidate in the March presidential elections, is under provisional […]

{Eight soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomb targeted a Somalia military training camp and attackers then entered the base on foot, the military said Monday.} The car bomb on Monday morning allowed the fighters to infiltrate the Lanta Buro base in Lower Shabelle region, a military officer, Said Mohamed Adawe, told The Associated […]

{Nigerian officials say 16 Boko Haram extremists and two soldiers have been killed when the extremists tried to ride explosives-laden motorcycles into an army base in the country's volatile northeast.} An army spokesman, Col. Sani Kukasheka, said in a statement Saturday that soldiers at the base in Rann in Borno state repelled the extremists with […]

{Human Rights Watch says Burundi's intelligence services have tortured scores of suspected government opponents at their headquarters and in secret locations. } The rights group reported Thursday that abuses often have been carried out in collaboration with members of a pro-government youth militia group known as the Imbonerakure. Burundi has been chaotic since April 2015, […]

{The U.N. deputy secretary-general warned Thursday that Congo is likely to face violence and persistent instability unless political opponents hold talks to resolve an impasse over upcoming elections in the country.} Jan Eliasson told the U.N. Security Council that "this tragic, and still preventable, outcome" would reverse political, security and develop gains over the past […]

{A car bomb has gone off outside a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing five people and wounding 14, security and hospital officials said.} Senior military official Brig-Gen. Abdul-Salam al-Hassi blamed the late Friday attack outside the Jalaa hospital on Islamic militants. Mohammed al-Zawy, an official at the hospital, confirmed that five […]

{Congo's president on Friday broke his silence on upcoming elections that have fueled tensions in this central African country for well over a year, promising a democratic process but declining to detail his political future.} President Joseph Kabila's second and final term under the constitution expires at the end of this year, but the opposition […]