Tag: Unrest

DR Congo's military used newly deployed jets to bombard M23 positions in the east of the country on Tuesday, officials ...

Fresh clashes between the army and M23 rebels have erupted in eastern DR Congo, officials said Sunday, with at least ...

Guided by the broad beam of a torch light, four beekeepers softly tread towards a wooden hive atop a mango ...

On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked ...

Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, visiting Ivory Coast on a key foreign trip, on Monday stood by ...

Gunmen killed at least 48 people in attacks on three villages in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, a local official and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday there would be no mercy for those behind the killings of more than a ...

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing ...

The French medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) said Thursday that five employees who were kidnapped more than a month ...

Dozens of civilians and members of a Tuareg rebel group that signed a peace deal with the government have been ...

A UN expert on Thursday urged Sudanese forces to stop firing live ammunition and tear gas at anti-coup protesters in ...

Eighteen civilians have been killed in two suspected jihadist attacks in the west of Niger near the Sahel nation's border ...

The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to ...

Usman Mohamed's hometown of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad was once overrun by jihadists, forcing him to flee, ...

"I don't sing to avenge my family, but because other innocent people who know nothing about politics continue to die," ...

Maia looks down at her expanding belly, her eyes welling with tears. Four months ago, an armed man grabbed and ...

Global energy giants were quick to halt their Mozambican gas projects when jihadist violence erupted on their doorsteps. After months ...

The UN mine clearance worker gingerly sifts through a patch of dirt with a trowel in scrubland on the outskirts ...

Gunmen from heavily-armed criminal gangs killed dozens of people, including 11 security personnel, in separate attacks in northwest and central ...

As Burkina Faso's junta consolidates its position after seizing power in a coup, we look at the recent history of ...

Soldiers in Burkina Faso staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country's military top brass and ...

In the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a province under military control, a rebel militia administers a ...

Authorities in the Burkina Faso capital on Thursday banned two planned weekend protests at lack of security in the troubled ...

Lamine Bina casts a long shadow over his herd on a plain in the Central African Republic's rural northwest. In ...