Security

The United ​States has said it will prevent the United Nations from supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia...

Insurgents staged attacks on army ​positions across Mali on Saturday, including in a northern town where government and Russian fighters...

Kenyan police opened ‌fire at a protest in Nairobi against reported abductions on Tuesday, killing at least one person, two...

Authorities in Somalia’s Puntland region have accused the federal government in Mogadishu of smuggling weapons into the state to fuel...

It has been two years since Serge Oulon, an investigative journalist and editor was taken from his home in Ougadougou,...

Police in Nigeria's central Plateau state ‌said on Tuesday that 20 people had been killed in a weekend attack ​on...

Gunfire erupted early on Thursday at the airport in Niger's capital, Niamey, residents told AFP, several months after a major jihadist...

Kenya will pay compensation to almost 2,000 victims of protest-related human rights abuses, President William Ruto said on Monday, marking...

Nigeria has put hundreds more suspected Islamist militants on trial in ​its latest round of mass prosecutions, as ‌authorities step up...

After the Kpangba displacement camp ​became the first in this part of war-torn Congo to record deaths from Ebola two...