The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group said it took control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo on Wednesday, after a rapid offensive since the...
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell visited a boys’ school in Kassala State this week to help bring attention to the dire situation in Sudan. According to...
West Africa is in a state of emergency, the president of ECOWAS told the regional bloc’s security council at a meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. It’s...
US immigration agents used pepper spray against protesters in Minneapolis on Tuesday as residents blocked the officers’ vehicles and forced them to leave the area. Minnesota’s...
France has revealed that it provided surveillance, observation and logistical assistance to Benin’s armed forces to help fend off last weekend’s attempted coup. The Elysee Palace...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Sudanese militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman , better known as Ali Kushayb, to 20 years in prison for...
The coup attempt in Benin over the weekend not only sparked reactions in the immediate proximity of the country, with ECOWAS members intervening to support the...
It is the fifth contingent of Kenyan police to arrive on the violence-battered island since the start of the UN-backed police mission. The 230 police offers...
The emergency landing of a Nigerian military plane in western Burkina Faso has reignited tensions between Abuja and the Alliance of Sahel States, or AES. In...
A hundred schoolchildren freed after being abducted in northern Nigeria last month were welcomed home on Monday at a ceremony in Minna, the capital of Niger...