Suspected militants have kidnapped an 83 year-old American nun in Burkina Faso. The armed men abducted her from a nunnery where they vandalised apartments and destroyed…
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At least eight people were killed by armed militants while collecting water in a northern Burkinabè town on Monday, the mayor said, taking the death toll…
At least two Malian troops and two UN peacekeepers were killed in separate strikes on Monday, according to the Army and the UN mission in Mali.…
Demonstrations turned violent in Ouagadougou on Saturday after police shot tear gas to disperse a march against the state’s failure to stem a wave of militant…
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister The…
A final ruling upholding a death sentence for 21 suspected militants has been issued by Egypt’s highest civilian court on Thursday. The defendants were convicted of…
A military helicopter crash has killed five officials in Cote D’Ivoire, the Ivorian Defence Ministry confirmed on Friday. The helicopter, which had five people on board…
According to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) group, no fewer than 2,500 people have died, over half of them civilians.
Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 70 people in simultaneous attacks on villages in Niger Republic, near the border zone with Mali, . In the…
At least 18 people have died when Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants attacked Bayeti village, Mamove locality in Beni territory of the eastern Nord Kivu province…