The Chadian government has mobilised troops and armoured tanks to help combat the Boko Haram insurgents. Read more »
The attack comes two months after the insurgents captured and renamed another town in Adamawa State. Read more »
The campaign and research groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have both released satellite images providing evidence of the scale of last week's attack on the ... Read more »
United Nations, European Union and American envoys to the Great Lakes region have called for military action to force Rwandan rebels based in the Democratic Republic of Congo to ... Read more »
About 1,400 members of one of the groups responsible for the Rwandan genocide have failed to meet a deadline to disarm voluntarily. Read more »
President Goodluck Jonathan has made his first visit to the troubled northeast amidst escalating Boko Haram violence that threatens next month's election. Read more »
Pope Francis has called upon Europe to rediscover its leadership role and urged lawmakers to help the thousands of migrants who try to reach EU shores. Read more »
This follows the arrest in Belgium of another former commander of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, the former armed group of ex-president Charles Taylor. Read more »
The army has repelled an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on Biu in Borno State after a battle in the restive north-east. Read more »
No deaths have been recorded so far because of the competence of medical teams in the internally displaced persons camps, reports say. Read more »
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