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...
Boko Haram extremists have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a procession of hundreds of Shiite Muslims and threatened more attacks on opponents...
The so-called 'Islamic State' group has claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Tunisia which killed at least 13 people.
In a statement posted online...
Nigerian troops have driven Boko Haram extremists out of an abandoned north-eastern primary school in a shootout that killed four militants.
Insurgents were using the...