Terrorist outlaws, often called bandits, have been active in Nigeria’s Northwest and parts of the FCT. But details on the clear identity and motivation of the Kwali attackers have been slow to emerge. Villagers in

The Nigerian government has announced that it will take the first step towards the creation of a new state of the nation’s military in the coming years, according to a new report released by the

One month since rebels closed in on Drodro village in eastern Congo, the once bustling wards of its hospital are empty and Doctor James Semire strolls the darkened corridors wondering when patients will dare to

An East African force set up to thwart insurgents in Democratic Republic of Congo has for months been proclaiming progress, saying the rebels have quit key strongholds and been replaced by its troops. But these

The World Health Organisation (WHO) expects “many more” deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan’s army and

Mali and its neighbor Algeria on Thursday said they wished to revive a 2015 peace deal between Bamako and northern Malian rebels that today lies in limbo, raising fears of renewed violence. The pact aimed

An attack on a military detachment in east Burkina Faso on Thursday left 33 soldiers dead and 12 injured, the military-led government said, the latest bout of violence in a country locked in fighting against

Le président de la commission de la Défense nationale et des Forces armées à l’Assemblée nationale française, Thomas Gassilloud et la députée Michèle Peyron, présidente du groupe d’amitié France-Niger, sont en visite à Niamey. Les

Alors que le sommet Russie-Afrique doit se tenir en juillet à Saint-Pétersbourg, Moscou poursuit son offensive médiatique sur le continent. Une « association des journalistes russes et africains » va ainsi être discrètement créée. Explications.

For more than three decades, Russia has been trying to regain its Soviet-era economic influence in Africa, but such efforts have regularly hit stumbling blocks which policy experts attribute to pitfalls in Russia’s policy towards