Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids
Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer...
Nigeria failed to act on advance kidnap warning
London - Amnesty International alleged Friday that Nigerian security officials failed to act on an advance warning about a militant group's raid on a...
Angelina Jolie takes Nigerian girls’ plight to London
London - Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, in London to promote her new film Maleficent, used the red carpet event on Thursday to renew her...
South Sudan: Civilians killed and raped as ethnically-motivated violence spirals and...
A new investigation into the conflict in South Sudan has revealed horrific atrocities committed by both parties to the conflict, with ethnically motivated attacks...
Boko Haram attacks Nigerian village used leaving hundreds dead
Abuja, Nigeria - Boko Haram launched a grisly attack on a Nigerian village in an area that troops had been using as a base...
Gunmen massacre 125 in Gamburu north-east Nigeria
Maiduguri, Nigeria - The latest big Islamist attack in Nigeria has killed least 125 people, police said on Wednesday after gunmen rampaged through a...
Nigeria offers 50 million naira reward to find kidnapped girls
Abuja - Nigerian police offered a 50 million naira ($300 000) reward on Wednesday to anyone who could give information leading to the rescue...
60 Dead From Drinking Homemade Brew in Kenya
Kenyan police chief says at least 60 people have died in four counties after consuming homemade brew believed to be laced with industrial alcohol.
Inspector...
UN’s Ban visits South Sudan to push for peace
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that South Sudan's rebel chief has agreed to direct peace talks, hours after the UN leader arrived...
New Kidnapping Reported in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria — A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria’s northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country’s troubled government, which had...
Boko Haram ‘to sell’ Nigeria girls abducted from Chibok
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.
Militant leader Abubakar Shekau sent a...
Zimbabwe deports Freshly Ground over Mugabe video
Zimbabwe on Sunday deported popular music group Freshly Ground who were due to stage the closing performance at the Harare International Festival of the...
