Nearly 100 people have been killed in an attack on mosques and houses in a village in north-eastern Nigerian by suspected Boko Haram militants, witnesses said on Thursday. “The attackers have killed at least 97 people,” a local man from Kukawa village who gave his name as Kolo told AFP, saying he...

Suspected Boko Haram militants "spared nobody" as they wiped out two villages in two days. A group of more than 50 gunmen reportedly attacked the village of Kukawa on Wednesday evening, where they shot 97 people dead. Women and children are thought to be among the victims. The day before, mili...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two suicide bomb blasts along a highway in northeast Nigeria killed at least 10 people on Thursday afternoon, state police said, the latest in a string of almost daily attacks by suspected Islamist militants. A female suicide bomber killed seven and injured 13 at a ...

Thousands of Malian refugees are facing food shortages in Mauritania because of a delayed rations shipment and a shortage of funding, as donors juggle several global crises, an official from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. About 50,000 refugees fled to the Mbera camp after the...

Deux semaines après les attentats-suicides commis à Ndjamena, le 15 juin dernier, les forces de sécurité tchadienne ont découvert une cache d’armes destinées à Boko Haram. Obus, roquettes et munitions de Kalachnikov étaient cachés dans une maison occupée par des membres présumés du groupe d’Abubakar...

The United States vowed on Sunday to support Nigeria after a series of deadly terror attacks blamed on Boko Haram, calling for those responsible to face justice. The Islamists have launched a series of attacks on mosques, villages and markets in Borno state in the past few days, claiming more tha...

Two bombs blamed on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, killing 44 people, officials said on Monday. Sixty-seven other people were wounded in the attacks on Sunday night and were being treated at hosp...

Vendredi lors de son étape camerounaise, François Hollande a été le premier chef d'Etat français a reconnaître implicitement un pan trouble et méconnu de l'histoire entre la France et le Cameroun, qui dans les années 1950 et 1960 a vu des troupes françaises réprimer les aspirations a l'indépendance ...

PRESS RELEASE Bassikounou/Nouakchott - The cancellation of monthly food rations in July for 49,500 Malian refugees in Mbera Camp is likely to cause a rise in global acute malnutrition levels, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which provides medical care and malnutrition support in the camp. M...

A teenager blew herself up near a mosque on Monday night in an apparent suicide attack attempt in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, police said. Police spokesman Magaji Majiya said the girl's target was likely the Umar Ibn Al-Khattab mosque and that she was the only casualty. The attempted ...