Tag: Unrest

At least ten soldiers died in an ambush by a group of "armed terrorists" in southwestern Niger, close to the ...

Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups met in Burkina Faso on Thursday on the ...

Six senior Malian military officers, including the army chief of staff and head of the national guard, were relieved of ...

A powerful Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader in the Sahel has been in secret talks with armed groups in northern Mali which, like ...

Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including fifteen who had been abducted at ...

Rebels from the M23 group in Democratic Republic of Congo seized a town from the army as they continued to ...

M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo clashed with soldiers and rival militias on Thursday, according to officials, who said the ...

The Burkina Faso government clarified on Monday that it has asked ex-colonial ruler France to pull its troops out of ...

A notorious militia in eastern DR Congo on Thursday attacked a camp for displaced people, killing five children and two ...

Acrid smoke swirls amid the buzzing of dozens of chainsaws under the majestic Nyiragongo volcano, producing scenes of devastation in ...

Attacks in Burkina Faso have increased since October and now especially target civilians, according to junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, ...

The US ambassador to Sudan has called on ex-rebels who were not part of an initial post-coup deal to join ...

A video showing soldiers hurling a corpse onto a pile of burning rubble in Mozambique's jihadist-hit north "gives a glimpse" ...

Three aid workers have been murdered this month in conflict-battered South Sudan and a disputed border area, the UN's emergency ...

Government forces in the self-declared Somaliland republic have withdrawn from a contested town near the border of Somalia after days ...

Twenty-eight bodies were found in northwest Burkina Faso at the weekend, the government said, as rights campaigners blamed a volunteer ...

The European Union on Saturday urged Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebel group, which has captured swathes of territory ...

Armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their ...

Nine people have been killed in fighting in Sudan's western Darfur region between groups of Arab Rizeigat and the Fur ...

Three prominent Congolese figures, including Nobel winner Denis Mukwege, on Monday accused President Felix Tshisekedi of pushing the country towards ...

Nigerian authorities have acknowledged "collateral damage" from air strikes against criminal gangs in which residents said around one hundred civilians ...

This year will be the fourth year running that Seyi Anne Moses has had to decide against going home to ...

At least 166 civilians have died in clashes in South Sudan's far north over the past four months, the United ...

The Sahel state of Niger is urging former soldiers and police to get back into uniform to help the years-long ...

Casting his gaze everywhere from a hilltop in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, warlord Janvier Karairi commands his forces in ...

Sudan's military and civilian leaders signed Monday an initial deal aimed at ending a deep crisis that has gripped the ...

The UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo led calls Friday for an investigation after the government said fifty villagers had ...

Fighting with heavy weapons erupted between government forces and M23 insurgents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, shaking ...

A ceasefire between government troops and M23 rebels appeared to be holding for a third day on Monday in the ...

At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel ...