(Adds context and quote) DOUALA, Cameroon Dec 11 (Reuters) - Eight people were killed and 21 wounded in a suspected suicide bombing by Boko Haram early on Friday morning in Cameroon's Far North region, local officials said. The Islamist militant group wants to establish an Islamic caliphate in...

(Adds detail, context throughout) N'DJAMENA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Four militants detonated suicide bombs after being found out by a group of locals on a Lake Chad island, killing three of the attackers but no one else, official and security sources said on Wednesday. The maze of islands and wate...

* Angola epidemic has killed 258 people since December 2015 * Yellow fever spread by same mosquitoes as Zika, dengue * WHO warns of spread, cases in China, Congo, Kenya, Uganda (Recasts, adding details on outbreak's spread, vaccine concerns) By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay LONDON/G...

In early 2015, former LRA commander and International Criminal Court (ICC)-indictee Dominic Ongwen surrendered to security forces in the Central African Republic (CAR) and was later transferred to the custody of the ICC to await trial in The Hague, where he remains now that trial proceedings have be...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, June 7 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram fighters attacked the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, the Islamist militant group's most serious assault on the regional capital in a year and a half.