Attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening...
Violence from co-ordinated attacks on three Burundian army installations killed 87 people, an army spokesman said, showing the escalating turmoil over the disputed third...
The son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi has been kidnapped by militants in Lebanon.
They are demanding information about the fate of a Shiite...
A South African appeals court has convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court’s manslaughter conviction.
The double-amputee Olympian had previously been convicted on...
Troops have freed 900 hostages held by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, killed more than 100 fighters and arrested 100 others, Cameroon’s government said.
Issa Tchiroma...
Two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a town in north Cameroon, killing at least five people and injuring 12 others.
Colonel Jacob Kodji,...
Boko Haram extremists have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a procession of hundreds of Shiite Muslims and threatened more attacks on opponents...
