Tag: Insecurity

People living in cities in Mali under siege by al-Qaeda-linked militants have told the BBC they are facing shortages of ...

One of Sudan’s duelling generals, who leads the paramilitary force fighting the country’s army, has told the BBC he will ...

About 60 civilians have been killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso, according to the local prosecutor who announced ...

The fighting that has erupted in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country is a direct result of ...

A prominent Fulani Imam, Sheikh Osman Dukuri and 12 of his followers have reportedly been arrested by operatives of the ...

Gunmen have kidnapped an Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (Rtd), in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The retired Air ...

Mali Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga accused France Saturday of abandoning the conflict-torn country with its decision to draw down ...

For the last few years life in rural areas of north-western Zamfara state has been agonisingly brutish. Gun-toting motorbike gangs ...

Afghan universities will be segregated by gender, and a new dress code will be introduced, the Taliban has said. Higher ...

The fate of Guinea's President Alpha Condé is unclear after an unverified video showed him in the hands of soldiers, ...