The Nigerien army wants to expel Boko Haram from islands in Lake Chad. Thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes ahead of a planned offensive. The evacuation was poorly prepared, say human rights activists. Moussa Tchangari is furious as he describes how the evacuation was carried out...

Military sources on Saturday confirmed the arrest of the leader of the Ansaru Islamic Sect, Khalid Albarnawi, who was described as the second in command to Abubakar Shekau in the hierarchy of the Boko Haram terrorists group. A report by an online portal, The Cable, had quoted Ahmad Salkida, a jou...

A national staff member of the UN Refugee Agency in the Central African Republic was killed on 1 May 2014 in Bangui. The UNHCR employee was abducted in the morning from the PK16 district of the CAR’s capital and his body was recovered in the afternoon of the same day. UNHCR mourns the death of t...

The Munich Security Conference is convening a meeting in Ethiopia to discuss the fight against extremism, crisis prevention and democracy in Africa. This is the first conference of its kind on the African continent. Around 60 senior leaders from Africa, Europe and the US are gathering in the E...

At least 32 killed and scores abducted in village of Gumsuri as army court sentences 54 soldiers to death for mutiny. Boko Haram fighters have killed 32 people and kidnapped scores of others in a northeastern Nigerian village, local officials and a witness said, as a court-martial sentenced 54 sold...

Fresh violence and insecurity in the Central African Republic, which forced Cordaid to temporarily suspend its programs in October, is one of many in a recurring cycle of violence since the early ‘90’s. “The country is caught-up in a conflict trap and every crisis but a multiplication of armed group...

At least 80 people have been abducted and three others killed in a cross-border raid in northern Cameroon by the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram, officials have said. The attack occurred in the village of Mabass, in the Far North region, Cameroon's Information Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. ...

Friday, January 20, 2017 — London/Geneva, 20 January 2017: The death toll continues to rise following the horrific military attack on civilians in Rann, Nigeria, according to latest estimates by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Around 90 people were killed when a Nigerian airforce plane circled tw...