Approximately 10 people were detained in Comoros for allegedly plotting against the government, senior officials said April 22, Reuters reported.

Fighting between Nigeria's military and Boko Haram extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said April 21, AP reported.

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front party boycotted local elections April 21, AP reported.

The International Monetary Fund reached an agreement with Tunisia on a two-year, $1.75 billion loan, AFP reported April 20.

The French family kidnapped by Boko Haram in Cameroon in February has been released and is in the hands of Cameroonian officials, Cameroonian President Paul Biya said April 19, Al Jazeera reported.

At least 25 people were wounded in Conakry in clashes between security forces and supports of the Guinean opposition April 18, AFP reported.

At least five people were shot and killed by gunmen in a restaurant in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa on April 18, Reuters reported, citing witnesses and local media reports.

At least seven people were killed when gunmen attacked the village of Tsamiya in Nigeria's Plateau state, Punch news reported April 17.

A remote-detonated bomb exploded near the central police station in the Somali town of Beledweyne, a Somali law enforcement official said April 16, Shabelle reported.

Chad is beginning to pull its troops out of Mali, Chadian President Idriss Deby said April 15, the BBC reported.