At least 200 gunmen allegedly armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles have surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli to demand that officials who worked for ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi be banned from senior positions in the new government, witnesses and a military official said April 28, Al Jazeera reported.

Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, is not in Sudanese border areas, a spokesman for Sudan's armed forces said April 27, Sudan News Agency reported.

A bomb detonated outside a police station around 6 a.m. April 27 in Benghazi, extensively damaging the building but causing no injuries, Reuters reported.

Two policemen and five suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram were killed when the militants attacked a security formation in the Bade Local Government Area of Yobe, Nigeria, on April 25, News Agency of Nigeria reported.

The U.N. Council approved a resolution that will establish a 12,600-strong peacekeeping force in Mali on April 25, AP reported in a message posted on Twitter.

French troops in Timbuktu ceded control of the city to forces of the African-led support mission in Mali, RFI reported April 24.

The U.S. Department of State warned U.S. citizens April 23 of the risks of visiting Burundi, according to a State Department Travel Warning.

Incidents of violence occurred in several districts of Abidjan and other towns in Ivory Coast on April 22 after the results of local elections were announced, Xinhua reported April 23.