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Burkina Faso bomb kills three

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A roadside bomb in northern Burkina Faso killed three soldiers and wounded two, the military said. They did not say who was...

Kismayo car bomb

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A car bomb explosion in the southern Somali port Kismayo wounded at least 10 people, police and residents said. The blast occurred...

Sinai car bomb kills seven

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Seven civilians, including two children, were killed by a car bomb that exploded at a security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's...

Roadside bomb kills two outside Mogadishu

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A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six others, police said. The...

Suicide bombers kill two in Niger attack

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Bombers killed two people and wounded 11 others at a UN-managed camp in Niger housing people who have fled Boko Haram violence...

Bomb planted on road kills 4 in northeast Kenya

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Four people were killed and 11 injured when their landcruiser detonated a bomb planted on a road in northeast Kenya on Friday,...

Homemade bomb kills three

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Three people were killed in eastern Kenya when their vehicle ran over a homemade bomb, police said. The incident, the latest in a...

Al Shabaab claims bomb attack on Somali police station

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A bomb planted in a police station killed at least one policeman in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayu with militant Islamist...

Five killed by roadside bomb in Kenya

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Four police officers and a civilian were killed and two policemen are missing after their truck hit a landmine on a road...

Five dead in Mogadishu blast

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A blast in the Somali capital killed five civilians and injured six more, a city spokesman said, underscoring the ability of Islamist...

Tribal elder, five others filled in Benghazi car bomb

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A car bomb killed a prominent tribal elder allied to eastern security forces and five other people outside a mosque in a...

Somali soldiers die trying to defuse car bomb

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Two soldiers died when a car bomb exploded as they were trying to defuse it in Somalia's capital, police said. The men were...

Mogadishu suicide bombing

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A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a cafe in central Mogadishu, killing at least eight people in an...

Suspected bomb makers killed in Egypt

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Two armed men suspected of making bombs were killed in a shoot-out with Egyptian security forces in an area north of Cairo,...

Puntland bomb kills six

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A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, killing at least six soldiers and injuring eight others, a...

Boko Haram bomb victim wants to provide prosthetic limbs in Nigeria

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When 29-year-old Member Feese woke up in a London hospital a month after a Boko Haram bomb attack in Nigeria's capital Abuja...

Two bomb attacks in Mogadishu

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A suicide bomber wearing army uniform killed at least nine soldiers at a camp in Somalia's capital on Monday authorities said and...

Another roadside bomb in Somalia

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A roadside bomb killed 10 people in a minibus in southern Somalia on Thursday, a military officer and residents said, blaming Islamist...

Mogadishu car bomb kills seven

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A car bomb rammed into a cafe in the Somali capital Mogadishu near compounds housing government ministries on Wednesday, killing seven people,...

Puntland roadside bomb kills soldier, wounds another

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At least one soldier was killed and another was wounded in a roadside bombing blamed by regional military officials on Islamic State-affiliated...

One killed, three injured in Cairo explosion

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One man was killed and three others injured in an explosion in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, the Interior Ministry said in...

Blasts kill four, injure 18 in north-eastern Nigeria

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Multiple blasts killed four people and injured eight others in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the state police commissioner said. Borno...

Car bomb kills at least eight in Mogadishu

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A car bomb exploded near a hotel on in the Somali capital on Monday, killing at least eight people, police and medical...

Islamic State claims attempted Algerian bombing

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Islamic State claimed responsibility for a foiled bomb attack on an Algerian police station at the weekend, the group's AMAQ news agency...

Three wounded in Mogadishu car bomb explosion

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A car bomb went off in the Somali capital on Monday, wounding three people, a Reuters witness said. It was not immediately clear...

Islamic State posts video of apparent Egypt church bomber

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Islamic State published a video on Sunday threatening Egyptian Christians and showing the last statement of a man it said was responsible...

Bomb kills at least five soldiers in northern Sinai

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At least five soldiers were killed and two injured by a roadside bomb in Egypt's restive Northern Sinai where government faces an...

Mogadishu suicide bomb kills 39

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A car bomb ripped through a market in Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 39 people and injuring around 50, a local official said,...

Somali militants ram car bomb into hotel, killing 28

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Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, jumped clear and stormed...

At least 13 killed in Somalia hotel attack

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At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when al Shabaab militants rammed a car bomb into the...

Roadside bomb kills at least four Somali soldiers

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At least four soldiers were killed and five wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb Islamist insurgents said they planted exploded...

Bomb kills eight in Sinai house

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Eight people were killed on Saturday after a bomb landed on a house in southern Rafah, in the north of Sinai, eye...

Three killed in Somali tea shop blast

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At least three people were killed and 11 others injured when an explosion ripped a small restaurant popular with soldiers in the...

Four arrested in connection with Egyptian church bombing

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Egyptian police arrested four people in connection with the bombing that killed dozens of Christians at Cairo's Coptic Christian cathedral last month,...

Mogadishu car bomb wounds four UN guards

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A car bomb wounded at least four UN guards when it exploded near a United Nations compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on...

Suicide bombers attack Somali peacekeepers’ HQ

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Suicide bombers attacked the main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least three Somali security officers, police said. Islamist al...

Suicide car bomb explodes at Mogadishu checkpoint

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A suicide car bomb exploded on Thursday at a checkpoint near Somalia's national theatre in the capital Mogadishu, police said. Witnesses said the...

Suicide bomber behind Egyptian church attack – claim

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said a suicide bomber carried out the attack that killed 24 people at Cairo's Coptic cathedral, the...

Militants claim Cairo blast that killed six

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A recently emerged Egyptian militant group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in Cairo on Friday that killed six policemen and wounded...

Two police killed in Somali checkpoint car bombing

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A car bomb killed at least two policemen when it exploded at a checkpoint near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police...

Cairo church bombing kills 25

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A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending...

Suicide bomb kills at least 29 at Mogadishu port

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A suicide truck bomb hit the entrance of Somalia's biggest port on Sunday, killing at least 29 people, police said in an...

Suicide car bomb rocks Somali capital

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At least one person died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car exploded near...

Deaths reported after car bomb explosion in Maiduguri

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About eight people were killed and 15 wounded when a car laden with explosives hit a taxi in north-eastern Borno state's capital...

Morocco foils suicide attack plan for election day

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Moroccan authorities said on Tuesday they had foiled a planned suicide attack on October 7 parliamentary elections after the arrest of a...

Cairo car bomb wounds two

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A car bomb exploded in an eastern suburb of Cairo on Thursday evening, wounding two people, security sources said. It was not...

Former lawmaker was one of Somali AU base suicide bombers

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A former Islamist lawmaker turned al Shabaab militant was one of the drivers in Tuesday's double car bomb attack on the African...

Al Shabaab bomb kills Kenyan ambulance driver – claim

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A Kenyan government driver was killed on Monday evening near the border with Somalia when his vehicle hit a mine planted by...

Somali plane bomb meant to kill all aboard: minister

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A blast that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane last week was caused by a bomb meant to kill...

Bomb kills nine in Cairo suburb as police raid hideout

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Nine people, including six policemen, were killed on Thursday in a Cairo suburb near the pyramids when a makeshift bomb went off...