A revolt by some members of Sudan's intelligence agency was a "coup" and plot against the revolution of the Sudanese people, said Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, the head of the country's Sovereign Council, on Wednesday.

It's official, Akon has his own city in Senegal.

Three teachers were killed in a suspected Al Shabaab attack on a primary school in northeastern Kenya, police said on Monday.

The Niger government has declared three days of national mourning after 89 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base, a government spokesman said.

Libya's renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar has declared a ceasefire, ending a nine-month campaign to seize the capital, Tripoli.

Most Kenyans and Nigerians have confidence in President Donald Trump, according to data released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

Two sisters, who were joined in the chest and abdomen, have been successfully separated in a surgery by a 78-member team in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

Measles has killed more than 6,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization has said.

A Kenyan pastor stabbed his wife during a church service and then slit his throat in a murder-suicide witnessed by the shocked congregation, local police told CNN on Monday.

Al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for an attack on a US base in Kenya on Sunday morning local time.

Officials from Kruger National Park in South Africa are considering new rules after a spate of incidents that have raised concerns about the impact of tourism.

Four children were among those killed after a military plane crashed a few minutes after takeoff in the Sudanese town of El Geneina, a military spokesman said according to a state media outlet.

Al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a truck bombing in Somalia that killed 85 people outside Mogadishu, the group's spokesman said.

At least 65 people are dead after a massive car bomb exploded at a busy intersection on the outskirts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a government official says.