There has long been speculation about how Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations are funded. Some funding clearly comes [PDF] from criminal activity, with kidnapping particularly lucrative, and from bank robberies. Presumably, protection rackets also

Violence has increased throughout South Sudan over the past six months, with more than 1,000 killings nationwide, the United Nations mission in South Sudan said on Tuesday.

Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.-monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence movement withdrew from a ceasefire.

The Trump administration is slapping new sanctions on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremist group, an al-Qaida-linked organization responsible for multiple terrorist attacks in East Africa. The State Department announced it had imposed sanctions on two senior leaders

Ethiopia predicted swift victory but northern rebels promised them “hell” on Wednesday in a two-week war threatening the vast nation’s unity and further destabilising the Horn of Africa. The war has killed hundreds, sent 30,000

La Chine est prête à continuer à travailler avec la communauté internationale pour la paix, la stabilité et la prospérité à long terme dans la région du Sahel, a déclaré lundi un envoyé chinois à

Les partis politiques de la majorité et de l’opposition représentés au Parlement se disent inquiets par la reprise des hostilités près des frontières nord du pays entre le Maroc et le Front Polisario. Les indépendantistes