In 2015, Joseph Kony’s fighters abducted 103 people in Central African Republic (CAR). In just the first three weeks of 2016, they’ve already abducted 94 individuals. Below, our colleague Paul Ronan of the LRA Crisis Initiative provides his analysis for the sudden and extremely concerning surge in L...

LESVOS ISLAND, Greece, Oct. 29 – At least 15 people died, several of them children, and some 38 others are missing in five incidents involving smuggler boats carrying hundreds of refugees and migrants across a wind-whipped channel between Turkey and the Greek islands. In the most serious incident...

By Hamza Idris, Maiduguri & Hamisu Kabir Matazu, Damaturu Death toll from the blast at Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum in Yobe State this morning has risen to 48, witnesses and hospital sources said. A teacher from the school had earlier told Daily Trust he counted 30 dead bodies. ...

(Updates with information throughout) By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, Nigeria, April 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram exactly two years ago have been identified in a new video, raising hopes that they are all alive and...