Half a million children have fled attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram over the past five months, the UN children's agency says. Unicef says this brings the total number of displaced children in Nigeria and neighbouring countries to 1.4m. Tens of thousands are suffering from acute malnutrition...

One of Africa's most senior church leaders has accused the West of ignoring the threat of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, days after the reported slaughter of up to 2,000 people by the group. Ignatius Kaigama, the Catholic Archbishop of Jos and president of the Nigerian Bishops Conference...

Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children into the forest where many died of hunger and disease, freed captives have revealed. Hundreds of women and children were rescued by the Nigerian army last week from Islamist fighters in north...

The UN refugee agency on Friday reported that fresh fighting in Sudan's Nuba Mountains has led to an increase in the number of people fleeing to South Sudan in the past month.

Fighting in previously peaceful areas of South Sudan's Western Equatoria state continues to force thousands of people to flee into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and even the volatile Central African Republic. We hope to gain access next week to an estimated 7,000 South Sudane...