The United States has designated the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). It intends to list it as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation effective March 16, 2026. The move seeks to intensify pressure on actors accused of fueling Sudan's ongoing conflict.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said

The Ghanaian government has announced plans to evacuate traders injured in an attack in northern Burkina Faso. The victims were part of a group of 18 Ghanaians who had crossed into the Sahelian state for routine business.

"They were ambushed in a village while transacting business. Armed insurgents and terrorist groups attacked them, and unfortunately, we lost a number of our compatriots," President John Mahama said, confirming that seven Ghanaian traders were killed in the

The Chinese government has rejected allegations by five US lawmakers that it sponsored illegal mining in Nigeria or funded militias for protection, calling the claims baseless.

The Chinese embassy in Nigeria said it was dissatisfied with what it described as false accusations and insisted that Chinese nationals were required to follow

President Bola Tinubu has condemned the fatal attack on the Kasuwan Daji community in Niger State. The president also ordered security chiefs to hunt down the attackers and ensure the kidnapped residents are freed.

Few details have been released about the United States airstrikes on Christmas Day launched from MQ-9 Reaper drones against camps linked to Islamic State-aligned militants in north-western Nigeria's Sokoto state.

No civilian casualties have been reported. ''Multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the ISIS camps,''  the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said in a statement on December 26.

Among those

A Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah, linked to the Somalia-based extremist group Al-Shabaab, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States for plotting a 9/11-style terrorist attack targeting American civilians.

Abdullah, 35, was convicted on multiple terrorism-related charges, including conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organisation and planning to hijack a commercial aircraft and crash

The gunmen entered their community using the nearby Zamfara forests, according to initial reports. A school teacher and a local guard were also killed during the raid, which occurred despite the presence of military checkpoints in the area.

Community leaders said there was prior intelligence about the impending attack and that the Kebbi State Governor was duly notified to mobilize the security forces. Police

The United Nations has warned that South Sudan faces a worsening food and nutrition crisis that could worsen if humanitarian intervention is not taken immediately.

Over half of the population, or 7.56 million people, will experience crisis or worse levels of hunger during the 2026 lean season, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, including more than two million

 An unspecified number of police officers have been reported missing after an attack on a mining site in the country's northern Cabo Delgado province. The raiders, believed to be Islamist militants, set alight various mining equipment, as well as vehicles and motorcycles.

The raid led to an interruption of mining activities in the area as miners abandoned the site. Through its channels, the Islamic State

France has suspended counterterrorism cooperation with Mali and ordered the country's diplomats to leave Paris. The move followed the arrest of a French diplomatic staff member in Bamako in August.

The expulsion by the French government is the latest twist in a spiralling row between Paris and Bamako, which has been