An ethnic Kayin party has set its sights on winning control of Kayin State at November’s elections. The Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party (PSDP) said it had drawn up lists of candidates for nearly every constituency in the state, and hopes to secure a majority in the state hluttaw. U Man Aung Pyi Soe...

Avec l’élimination de Mohamed Ali ag Wadoussène, les Français continuent leur traque méthodique contre la branche malienne d'Aqmi. Ce jihadiste est lié à l'enlèvement et à la libération de Serge Lazarevic. Il était un rouage majeur d'une katiba [brigade] touarègue conduite par son oncle, Sedane ag H...

A bomb at a local government building on the outskirts of Zaria in northern Nigeria killed at least 25 people on Tuesday morning and then three gunmen opened fire on a crowd of civil servants there. Zinari Shehu, a local radio journalist who was at the scene, said the bomb went off at around 10 a...

The President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Dr. Felix Omobude, has revealed that about 850 churches have been destroyed, with many people killed and injured through the activities Boko Haram in the northern part of the country. Omobude stated this on Tuesday during a visit to the Oyo State ...

A Chadian Public Prosecutor, Alghassim Khamis, said on Tuesday that a leader of the Boko Haram sect, Baana Fanay, who has been coordinating trafficking of weapons in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad was arrested on Sunday in N'Djamena. Khamis said Fanay alias Mahamat Moustapha, was arrested by security...

The Seeds for Solutions project, sponsored by the IKEA foundation, will help families and their children rebuild their lives after more than three years of exile The Sahel region of Burkina Faso currently hosts most of the 33,692 Malian refugees who have fled a violent conflict in the northern pa...

Marie Noëlle Koyara, ministre d’Etat en charge de la Défense de Centrafrique et, par ailleurs, vice-présidente du comité technique d’organisation du forum de réconciliation a remis en fin de semaine dernière à la présidente de transition, Catherine Samba-Panza, les rapports financier, technique et ...

The €38 million grant will support the socio-economic wellbeing of refugee families and the communities hosting them in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Addis Ababa, JULY 8, 2015: The UN refugee agency announced today that it has received a grant of €38¬ million from the IKEA Foundation, its largest priv...