Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed and five severely wounded when their convoy was attacked in northern Mali just south of the ancient caravan town of Timbuktu, the U.N. peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA) said on Thursday. MINUSMA said it had sent reinforcements to the scene of the attack, about 45 km...

Avec l’élimination de Mohamed Ali ag Wadoussène, les Français continuent leur traque méthodique contre la branche malienne d'Aqmi. Ce jihadiste est lié à l'enlèvement et à la libération de Serge Lazarevic. Il était un rouage majeur d'une katiba [brigade] touarègue conduite par son oncle, Sedane ag H...

2 July 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned today the attack against a convoy of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), which killed six peacekeepers and injured five others. “The Secretary-General reminds all parties that attacks agai...

A bomb at a local government building on the outskirts of Zaria in northern Nigeria killed at least 25 people on Tuesday morning and then three gunmen opened fire on a crowd of civil servants there. Zinari Shehu, a local radio journalist who was at the scene, said the bomb went off at around 10 a...

The President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Dr. Felix Omobude, has revealed that about 850 churches have been destroyed, with many people killed and injured through the activities Boko Haram in the northern part of the country. Omobude stated this on Tuesday during a visit to the Oyo State ...

A Chadian Public Prosecutor, Alghassim Khamis, said on Tuesday that a leader of the Boko Haram sect, Baana Fanay, who has been coordinating trafficking of weapons in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad was arrested on Sunday in N'Djamena. Khamis said Fanay alias Mahamat Moustapha, was arrested by security...

ABUJA— Troops of 3 Division of the Nigerian Army and officials of the Department of State Services, DSS, have arrested the mastermind of the coordinated bombings in Jos, Plateau State and Zaria, Kaduna State on Sunday and Tuesday, respectively. President Muhammadu Buhari has, meantime, declared th...

Au Cameroun, deux attaques en 48h attribuées à Boko Haram dans deux localités de l'extrême-nord du pays. La première a été repoussée par les forces de défense dans la nuit du 6 au 7 juillet et la seconde, mardi matin, a fait trois morts civils appartenant à un comité de vigilance d'un des villages a...

Boko Haram a revendiqué, mercredi 8 juillet, le double attentat suicide perpétré le 15 juin dernier à Ndjamena. L'information a été diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux. Cet attentat n'avait jusque-là pas été revendiqué. Il avait fait au moins 27 morts et une centaine de blessés et ciblait une école de ...

Nigerian troops have arrested the mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defense ministry said on Thursday. No one has taken responsibility for the attacks but they bore the hallmarks of Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has been ...