NIAMEY Dec 17 (Reuters) - Gendarmes in Niger have arrested at least four senior military officers in a troubling sign of potential unrest in the West African nation just two months before elections, military sources and family members of those detained said on Thursday. The arrests were made on T...

Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | Wednesday 12/16/2015 - 18:55 GMT Over 1,000 Nigerians, out of the thousands who fled attacks by Boko Haram jihadists to neighbouring countries, returned to their homeland this week, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Wednesday. Between Monday and ...

La multiplication des attaques commises par des femmes kamikazes est l’une des raisons de cette décision. Réunis en sommet à Abuja, la capitale du Nigeria, les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ouest-africains se sont entendus pour prendre "des mesures appropriées visant l'interdiction de tout port...

Au cours d'une allocution télévisée, le président nigérien Mahamdou Issoufou a affirmé jeudi soir qu'une tentative de coup d'Etat avait été déjouée au Niger. Cette annonce, à deux mois du scrutin présidentiel, intervient après l'arrestation de plusieurs hauts gradés en début de semaine. L'objecti...

The country's president told national TV viewers that several suspects have been detained for attempting a military takeover. Earlier this week, at least four senior military officers were arrested. President Mahamadou Issoufou went on national television on Thursday to announce that the gove...

YOLA, 17 December 2015 (IRIN) - Bulama Buba Kadai once owned 20 farms and more than 100 head of cattle near Gwoza in northeastern Nigeria. A year ago, when Boko Haram attacked his village, Kadai’s land and all but two cows were destroyed. He also lost his two sons – the sole heirs of any property he...

YAOUNDE Dec 18 (Reuters) - Cameroon's government has tabled a 2016 budget of 4,200 billion CFA francs ($6.9 billion), up 13.5 percent on last year in the central African country that exports coffee, cocoa and oil, said Prime Minister Philemon Yang. The draft budget was passed by the national asse...

By Senator Iroegbu in Abuja For the alleged killers of the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Alhaji Mohammed Yusuf, freedom came on Thursday as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja discharged them. The homebound officers — Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) J. B Abang, ACP Akera, ACP Adamu Bu...

GUNMEN killed three policemen and three ci­vilians during an attack on some foreign workers in the Guba Shango axis of Gombe State on Sat­urday. A security source confirmed the attack to an online newspaper, TheCa­ble. He said it happened at 9:00 p.m on Saturday. The source said the at­tackers al...

Malmené dans le nord-est du Nigeria depuis la montée en charge de la coalition internationale, le groupe Etat islamique en Afrique de l’Ouest (ex-Boko Haram) multiplie les attentats suicides et les attaques de villages. Dans ce changement de stratégie, les islamistes focalisent notamment leurs opéra...