West & Central Africa
Leah Sharibu, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, is now one year in the captivity of the radical Islamic jihadi sect, Boko Haram, and her parents are worried over the Nigerian government’s inability to secure her release over ...
Not less than 66 persons including 22 children and 12 women have been killedin Kajuru Local Government Area of kaduna state, central Nigeria by gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani cattle herdsmen militia attacking the the ...
Rebel groups and the Central African Republic (CAR) government have signed a peace deal which is hoped will bring the five-year-old war between Muslim militia called the Seleka and the Christian militia known as the ...
Anthony Idris Jatau, a Priest from the Diocese of Sokoto has been murdered on Thursday night 7 February, while on his way to Katsina State, north western Nigeria, with his family, to report to his ...
A report by Amnesty International said at least 60 people were killed on Monday, 28 January in yet another attack on Rann, a village close to the Cameroonian boarder in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, the ...
The Church of the Brethren, also called “Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa A Nigeria” (EYN), the largest in northeastern Nigeria and most impacted by the Islamic Boko Haram Jihadist, has accused the Nigerian government of bias in its ...
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) launched an attacked a United Nations peacekeepers base at Aguelhok 200 kilometres (about 125 miles) north of Kidal nearer the border with Algeria, on Sunday 20 January, in which ...
The United States of America has warned its citizens of possible attacks by Boko Haram, during Nigeria’s general elections in February and advised all U.S. citizens to “avoid crowds and demonstrations; be aware of your ...
Fulani herdsmen militia have attacked a Catholic seminary in Bare village in the Numan Local Government Area of Adamawa State, northeastern Nigeria, and burnt down the seminary including dozens of other houses. The Islamic Fulani ...
A Canadian national, Kirk Woodman, who was abducted by suspected Jihadi group linked to Al Qaeda at a mining site in Tiabongou, about 20 kilometers, about 12 miles, from Mansila in Yagha province in Burkina ...
