An alliance of Tuareg-led rebels and the Malian government have signed a peace deal which is meant to draw a line under a 2012 uprising. The deal should grant the Tuareg rebels greater autonomy in the northern areas of this African country. Mali has been embroiled in chaos since a coup in 2012. ...

La rébellion à dominante touareg du nord du Mali a signé, samedi à Bamako, l'accord de paix déjà entériné en mai par le camp gouvernemental et la médiation internationale. Cet accord est censé tourner la page du jihadisme dans cette partie du Sahel. Les négociations entre le gouvernement malien e...

Some of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last year have been brainwashed to begin fighting for the Islamist group, with many carrying out public beatings and even killings, other captives have told the BBC. Women who claim they lived in the same camps as some of the 219 ...

N'DJAMENA, June 28 (Reuters) - Security forces in Chad have arrested 60 suspected militants and dismantled a cell responsible for two suicide bomb attacks in its capital on June 15, the chief prosecutor of the central African nation said on Sunday. Blasts in two police offices in N'Djamena that ...

By Magdalena Mis LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The poor's lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 90 percent of the world population has access to clean w...

* Suspected Boko Haram militants set off suicide bombs * Site was used for bomb building, arms storage * Raid follows twin suicide bombings in mid-June (Adds arrest of senior Boko Haram leader) By Madjiasra Nako and Moumine Ngarmbassa N'DJAMENA, June 29 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram f...

1 July 2015 – Describing a pattern of vicious and indiscriminate attacks by Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria that stretched back years, the United Nations human rights chief today urged the international community to help the subregion begin to repair the damage, and specifically appealed to Nigeria...

29 June 2015 – The Security Council today extended the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) for one year, within the authorized troop ceiling of 11,240 military personnel, including, for the first time, at least 40 military observers to monitor and super...

After months of shuttle diplomacy, the Coordination of Movements for Azawad (CMA), the main rebel coalition in northern Mali, officially signed a peace agreement in Bamako on 20 June. The Mali government and the Algiers Platform, a coalition of pro-government armed groups, had already signed the dea...

GENEVE, (Xinhua) -- Le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'Homme, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a appelé mercredi à une réponse de grande envergure, tout en exhortant les gouvernements de la région du lac Tchad à veiller au respect des droits humains dans les mesures prises contre le groupe ...