The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and the Nigerian military said on Monday they had carried out additional airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, as joint operations against militant groups intensify. The operations in the Lake Chad zone underscore Washington's r
At least 42 Nigerian school children were missing on Saturday a day after suspected Islamist militants attacked a school in the insurgency-hit northeastern Borno state, a senator for the area said. Residents said on Friday that armed men abducted an unknown number of students from Mussa Primary an
Islamist Boko Haram militants have attacked a military base in Chad, killing at least 23 security personnel and injuring 26 others, the army said in a statement on Tuesday. It said the army had repelled the attack, which took place on Monday night in the Lake Chad region, and operati
The United States has urged its citizens to reconsider travel to Nigeria and authorised the departure of non‑emergency US government employees and their families from the embassy in Abuja, citing worsening security conditions in Africa’s most populous nation. The embassy said separate
The World Health Organization said on Saturday that a strike on a hospital in East Darfur, Sudan, killed at least 64 people, including children, medical staff and patients, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X. WHO said the Friday attack on Al Deain Teaching Hospital has
More than 60 people, including 12 children, were killed in a drone strike on Friday that targeted Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur state, western Sudan, according to statements released Saturday by local and UN sources. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said the strike on Friday
A cross-border drone attack from Sudan killed 17 people in Chad including mourners attending a funeral service, the Chadian government and local sources said on Thursday, and the country's president vowed to retaliate for any further attacks. The border town of Tine was struck on Wednesday afterno
Seventeen people were killed after a Sudanese drone strike hit the Chadian border town of Tine Djagaraba, Chad's Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman Gassim Cherif Mahamat said in a statement early Thursday. Several others were also wounded in the attack that took place on Wednesday,
At least 23 people were killed and 108 injured in suspected multiple suicide-bomb attacks in Maiduguri city, capital of Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeastern state of Borno, the state police command said in a statement late on Monday. Borno is at the heart of Nigeria's Islamist insurgency for the
The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia last week has risen to 125, the South Ethiopia regional government said. • Heavy rains triggered a series of landslides in different parts of the Gamo Zone. • As of last Thursday, authorities had confirmed 70 deaths. • On Sunday the South
South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation formally summoned US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III on Wednesday, following a series of inflammatory remarks that have significantly strained bilateral relations. Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola
Islamist militants from an al Qaeda-linked group killed 10 long-haul truck drivers and two teenage apprentices who were travelling through Mali's western Kayes region in late January, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) attacked a military-escorted
South African anti-apartheid activist Mosiuoa Lekota, who broke away from the African National Congress to found a new political party, died in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his party said in a statement. He was 77 years old. Lekota died after a period of illness and had stepped back from
