Following the ambush at dawn, the Al-Shabaab issued a statement, saying there were "severe casualties on both Kenyan and American troops stationed there" but the U.S. Africa ... Read more »

Sudan's transitional government has quelled armed protests by former intelligence officers angry about severance pay. It was one of the biggest outbreaks of violence since the ... Read more »

At least 30 people have been killed after a bomb ripped through a crowded market on a bridge connecting the Nigerian town of Gamboru and Cameroon's Fotokol. No group has yet to ... Read more »

A survey by Pew Research Centre listed Nigeria, Kenya, are among other countries that have confidence in United States Read more »

Four civilians and two suspected Al-Shabaab militants have been killed after attackers attempted to invade a police post in Dadaab, Garissa County. This comes two days after ... Read more »

Chad has ended its mission to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria, and has withdrawn its 1,200 soldiers from the country. The troops are part of the Multi-National Joint Task Force of the ... Read more »

More than a dozen civilians have died after a bus hit an improvised explosive device in northern Burkina Faso. Most of those who were killed were students who were reportedly on ... Read more »

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has claimed that the late General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force - the elite part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - was a ... Read more »

Hundreds of villagers that abandoned their houses in Michika, Adamawa State as suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked their communities have started returning home after the army ... Read more »

The 'Conservation and Management of Natural Capital in East Africa' program would mean improved collaborative management and conservation of the trans-boundary natural resources, ... Read more »