En réaction à l'attaque armée dont le Parlement a été la cible dimanche, le gouvernement libyen a proposé que celui-ci se mette en vacances.

Egyptian Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi has told the BBC that the election contest is not a fair fight, and his campaign is facing many problems.

Donors including the US and the UK pledge more than $600m (£360m; 440m euros) in aid to South Sudan at a conference in Norway.

Libya will hold parliamentary elections on 25 June, the election commission says, amid fears that the country is descending into a civil war.

The bodies of at least 118 people have now been recovered from the sites of twin bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials say.

Le ministre de la défense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, reporte une visite à Bamako qui devait marquer une nouvelle étape du redéploiement militaire français au Sahel.

Alors que le Sénat adoptait l'état d'urgence pour le nord-est du pays, deux voiture piégées ont explosé dans la ville de Jos.

Largement contesté, le Parlement libyen est accusé d'avoir contribué à l'anarchie en Libye, depuis le renversement de Mouammar Kadhafi en 2011.

Two bombs concealed inside a truck and a minibus have killed up to six people at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the military said. The first IED...

Donors including the US and the UK have pledged more than $600m (£360m; 440m euros) in aid to South Sudan at a conference in Norway. The sum raised will go towards the target of $1.8bn the UN says is needed to help millions facing starvation. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos says it is still possible to prevent a famine in the conflict-torn country. More than a million people have fled their homes since fighting erupted in December. Unable to farm Thousands have...

A Marine crisis-response team has deployed additional aircraft in Sicily as it awaits orders for a possible evacuation of American officials in Libya. An undisclosed number of KC130s and Ospreys from an air base in Spain joined the six craft already prepositioned at U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, said Capt....

Nigerian militant group Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls is both barbaric and cowardly, the Black Lawyers Association says....

Nigeria has announced plans to beef up security at the country?s boarding schools in direct response to the mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram militants....

More than a third of South Sudan's population, four million people, will be on the edge of starvation by the end of the year as fighting rages on....

VOA News At least 10 people have been killed in a pair of...

Libya will hold parliamentary elections on 25 June, the election commission has said, amid fears that the country is descending into a civil war. Earlier, Libya#039;s embattled government proposed that parliament go into recess after voting on this year#039;s budget. The...

At least 46 people have died in the Nigerian city of Jos after two car bombs ripped through a busy market....

Twin car bombings have killed scores of people at a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the area governor's spokesperson told AP....

Libya's parliament has moved to a luxury hotel until a powerful militia can take up positions to protect its old building, which was attacked by gunmen....

Nigeria is asking the Security Council to impose sanctions on Boko Haram, the group that has carried out a wave of deadly attacks and the recent abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls....

Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera has written to world powers asking them to secure the release of one of its journalists jailed in Egypt....

Libya#039;s enigmatic General Khalifa Haftar has been on different sides of almost every power struggle in Libya since the 1960s. He initially fought for Muammar Gaddafi, then against him. He fought alongside Islamist rebel groups in the uprising that toppled Gaddafi in 2011 before becoming their nemesis this year. Just as he was fading from the scene, he has re-emerged as the leader of the most serious challenge yet to the post-revolutionary government, which accuses him of being a renegade driven by a thirst for power. Rise and fall Alongside Gaddafi, Gen Haftar was part of the cadre of young army officers who seized power from Libya#039;s King Idris in 1969. He remained a close ally of...

20 May 2014 Last updated at 19:42 BST At least 46 people have been killed and many others injured by two bomb explosions in the volatile central Nigerian city of Jos, police say. The blasts happened in a busy market near a bus terminal. No group has said it carried out the attack. However, Jos has seen several deadly clashes...

At least 46 people have died after twin car bombs exploded at Terminus market in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Tuesday, according to Plateau state Superintendent Felicia Anslem Ali. The second bomb killed some rescuers who were working in the billowing black smoke at the scene, with witnesses believing it was timed to explode half an hour after the first. The explosives in the second attack were loaded with grain, witnesses told reporters. No groups have yet claimed responsibility...

The bodies of at least 118 people have now been recovered from the sites of twin bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the nation#039;s emergency management agency says. The first blast was in a busy market, the second outside a nearby hospital. No group has said it was behind the attack but Boko Haram militants have carried out a spate of recent bombings. Jos has also seen deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim groups in recent years. A spokesperson for the regional governor told AFP news agency that most of the victims were women. The market and bus terminal are part of the commercial centre of Jos. The second blast was some 30 minutes after the first and killed some rescue...

After lurching from one military coup to another, Nigeria now has an elected leadership. But the government faces the growing challenge of preventing Africa#039;s most populous country from breaking apart along ethnic and religious lines. Political liberalisation ushered in by the return to civilian rule in 1999 has allowed militants from religious and ethnic groups to...

Days after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan...

JOS - At least 118 people were killed in two blasts on...

JOS, Nigeria ? Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 46 people, wounding dozens and leaving streets strewn with bloodied bodies. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin car bombs. But they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls last month and has repeatedly targeted bus stations and other locations where large numbers of people gather in its campaign to impose Islamic law on Nigeria. The second blast came half an hour after the first, killing some of the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, which was obscured by billows of...

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