More than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria. The boys arrived in the state capital Katsina...
Read moreThe number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis...
Read moreHundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC. A spokesman for the governor of Katsina state...
Read moreNigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind last week's kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys in the north-western Nigerian state of Katsina. More than 300 pupils are...
Read moreA former Liberian rebel commander has gone on trial in Switzerland over alleged atrocities committed during the country's long-running civil war. Alieu Kosiah, 45, is accused of murder, rape, recruiting...
Read moreSomali Information Minister Osman Abukar Dubbe has accused Kenya of planning to destabilise Somalia as it prepares for legislative and presidential elections, state-owned Somali National TV has reported. "We respect...
Read moreThe head of local forces in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray says they are still fighting near the city of Mekelle, which was seized by government troops at the weekend....
Read moreThe United Nations has expressed concern about possible war crimes after a threat by the Ethiopian army to start an assault on the northern Tigray region's capital. A deadline set...
Read moreEthiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said the military operation in the northern Tigray region is entering its "final phase" now that a three-day ultimatum given to fighters to surrender...
Read moreEthiopia's prime minister has accused forces in the northern Tigray region of carrying out a massacre of civilians. Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopian federal troops had "liberated" the western part of...
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