Rights groups are questioning a multimillion-dollar arms sale by the United States to Nigeria聽as security forces in the west African nation continue to be accused of killing civilians with impunity.
The Nigerian military killed more than 100 members of a criminal gang in an air and ground raid over the weekend, according to a conflict monitoring report produced for the United Nations and seen by AFP on Monday.
Sudanese paramilitary fighters have killed at least 14 civilians trying to flee a besieged city in Darfur, a rights group said Monday, more than 27 months into their war against the army.
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed justice and accountability five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut鈥檚 port, as the investigating judge finished questioning defendants, a judicial official said.
A former prime minister of Mali was charged Friday with 鈥榰ndermining the credibility of the state鈥� following a social media post about his visits to political prisoners, a Bamako prosecutor said.
Unrest in Angola following protests against a fuel price hike has killed 22 people since Monday, the interior minister said, as calm returned to the capital...
At least 35 people were killed Sunday in an attack by Allied Democratic Forces rebels in northeastern DR Congo, ending a months-long period of regional calm, local sources said...
Libyan authorities detained on Saturday some 1,500 undocumented migrant workers in a raid on a neighbourhood housing them east of the capital Tripoli, an AFP reporter saw...
More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.
Nigerian troops killed at least 95 members of an armed criminal gang in a shootout and airstrikes earlier this week, according to a situation report shared with the UN and seen by AFP on Thursday.
China and the European Union vowed Thursday to 鈥榮tep up鈥� action on climate change, according to a joint statement released as Beijing hosted the bloc鈥檚 leaders for a one-day summit.
