Five female suicide bombers targeted the Chibok home town of Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls, killing nine civilians and wounding 32, witnesses said.
Soldiers are searching the...
Egypt’s first legislature in more than three years, a 596-seat chamber packed with supporters of president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, has convened.
The assembly, elected in November...
Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation.
It means there have been no new infections for 42 days.
Tow-and-a-half thousand people...
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...
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...