The army says it rescued 58 women used as sex slaves by the Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State. Also rescued were 75 children and 15 men. Read more »
Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of raping thousands of women and girls who escaped from the brutal rule of Boko Haram insurgents, and of killing many ... Read more »
According to senior government officials, the daring rallygoer snuck through barricades to reach the main stage in Gweru. Read more »
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has reportedly made recommendations to the U.S. government to place Nigeria on the "country of particular concern" ... Read more »
Zimbabwe will maintain its soldiers deployed in Equatorial Guinea to provide security to President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as well as to train the central African country's ... Read more »
One in four adolescent girls in South Sudan has considered killing herself, traumatised by physical and sexual violence brought on by the country's civil conflict, a report shows. Read more »
The Lord's Resistance Army rebel commander, Joseph Kony, is increasingly amassing resources through lucrative deals in ivory from the DR Congo with Arab countries, a defector has ... Read more »
Rival Libyan leaders and diplomats from more than 20 countries meeting in Paris have agreed in principle to hold elections later this year. Read more »
Nigeria has been advised to exit the International Criminal Court if it intends to fight the war against terrorism successfully. Participants at an international conference say ... Read more »
An unknown group of men thought to be Islamic fundamentalists, attacked the village of Monjane in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. The village community leader. ... Read more »
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