Michael Olugbode A bomb attack on Biu main market has claimed five lives and injured 10 others, eyewitnesses have said. One of the eyewitnesses, Yusuf Gunda, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, which is in the southern part of Borno state, told our correspondent on phone that a ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the actions of the past days by several European countries to collectively end a standoff on the Mediterranean involving some 450 refugees and migrants who had been stranded at sea amid a battle over disembarkation. Since Saturday the governments of France, ...

(Adds quote) BANGUI Dec 4 (Reuters) - Armed men in the Central African Republic killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one U.N. peacekeeper, just days after the pope visited the capital, the country's U.N. humanitarian coordinator said on Friday. The attacks took pla...