Somalia-based Al-Shabaab fighters used a ‘guerilla-like’ approach when storming a police base in Kenya, on Sunday, killing at least six officers attached to the National Police Reservists, who are a crucial backup to security forces

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Somali authorities to investigate the killing of journalist Mohamed Abukar Dabashe in a March 18 bombing by the militant group Al Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu and allow

Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general’s threat to target its airports, calling it a “declaration of war”. Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a “square metre of Chadian

Rivalries among Tigrayan political leaders threaten to derail the process of reintegrating Tigray into Ethiopia’s federal structure and could rapidly escalate into a wider conflict involving Eritrea and regional actors. Rapidly escalating tensions over the

Moroccan authorities have arrested more than a dozen Islamic State operatives, disrupting an attempt by extremists based in the Sahel to sow terror in the North African kingdom. The arrests in February came after raids

Ismaila Bangoura has bad dreams about the night when, he says, Mauritanian police burst into the place in Nouakchott he shared with other Guineans, beat them up and carted them off to a police station.

At least 48 people were killed and dozens injured in what doctors and activists described on Saturday as ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the town of Al-Maliha, North Darfur

A de facto ceasefire between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed rebels in the eastern Congo town of Walikale appeared to have broken down on Monday, with the rebels going back on a pledge to withdraw and