By Aminu Abubakar with Laurie Churchman in Abuja: An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern...
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Nigeria grapples with end of fuel subsidy
By Alexandre Martins Lopes: Nigerians are struggling with surging fuel prices after newly elected President Bola...
Turkey: Withdrawal of third-party candidate in Turkish election not good news for Erdogan
By Dmitry Zaks: Third-party candidate Muharrem Ince on Thursday withdrew from Turkey's tight presidential election in...
Mozambique: Corruption trial for ex-Mozambican leader’s son set for August
Nineteen defendants including a former president's son linked to a massive debt scandal that plunged Mozambique into...
Mozambique: Setback for Mozambique as insurgents take control of Palma near Tanzania and oil sites
Islamist militants have seized control of the northern Mozambique town of Palma, near a huge gas project involving...
Senegal braces for Jihadist spillover from the Sahel
Senegal's President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must "prepare...
US-Africa: Trump’s disastrous reputation in Africa
As they watched a violent mob smash into the US Capitol, some in Africa could not help but see a little irony in the...
Nigeria: Relief in Katsina after release of hundreds of kidnapped boys
Exhausted and dishevelled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys seized in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram...
Nigeria: Chaos in Katsina after gunmen kidnapped more than 300 boys
Outrage is simmering in Nigeria after gunmen kidnapped hundreds of secondary school students, while the government...
Mozambique’s insurgency intensifies, likely to get worse
Jihadists in northern Mozambique have stepped up an insurgency aimed at carving out a caliphate in the gas-rich...
New York judge orders CIA to explain its withholding of tape recording of murder of Jamal Khashoggi
A New York judge on Tuesday ordered US intelligence agencies to acknowledge they possess a tape recording of the 2018...
Nigeria: Massacre in northeast Nigeria
A weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram jihadist group left at least 110 dead,...
Global terrorism-related deaths down 15% in 2019, but West witnessing rise in far-right terrorism
Mighty France feels assaulted by Turkey and Russia in Africa
Pompeo’s pointless trip to Turkey: no one listens to him anymore
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul on Tuesday that included no official meetings and...
Nigeria: Insurgency risks expanding beyond the northeast
Lagos, May 17, 2020 - Nigerian jihadist groups are gaining sway in the restive northwest and the region could become a...
Nigeria: Boko Haram raids Gajiganna, kills 20
Kano, Nigeria, May 18, 2020 - Boko Haram jihadists killed 20 civilians in an attack on a village in restive...
Nigeria concerned about Covid-19 infections in Kano state
Abuja, May 18, 2020 - Nigeria's government on Monday extended a coronavirus lockdown on the northern region of Kano...
Cyprus says Turkey denied COVID-19 supply flight airspace entry
Nicosia, May 13, 2020 - Cyprus said Wednesday a flight it had chartered from China carrying 36 tonnes of COVID-19...
WHO advises MENA region against loosening confinement measures
Cairo, April 28, 2020 - The World Health Organization warned Tuesday of the impact coronavirus could have in Middle...
Nigeria downgraded by Fitch Ratings
Abuja, April 6, 2020 - Nigeria has asked for $6.9 billion from multilateral lenders including the International...
UAE and Morocco in diplomatic freeze (§)
Sahel: Swedish soldiers headed to Mali in yet another French operation
International: How Nigerians are bracing for coronavirus
Global markets rattled by coronavirus
Nigeria: Borno’s capital Maiduguri under siege, Boko Haram wants its fall, says MEA Risk LLC
Download the MP3 file Keeping and protecting the northeastern city of Maiduguri is likely to be a major test for the...
Egypt confronts Ethiopia over future access to Nile’s water
West Africa facing Jihadist contagion from the Sahel
Business: Coronavirus likely to force more oil production cuts
Algiers, Feb 8, 2020 - A committee appointed by the OPEC club of oil-producing countries and its allies to study the...
African crises: The ineffectiveness of the African Union
Addis Ababa, Feb 7, 2020 - Seven years ago, amid extravagant celebrations marking the African Union's 50th...
Immigration: Spain faces spike in migrant arrivals
Investigators probing role of Libya into financing of French ex-president Sarkozy’s election campaign
Sahel: Insurgents kill six Chadian troops in Lake Chad
Africa: City of Lagos to ban Okada motorcycle taxis
Lagos, Jan 28, 2020 - Nigeria's traffic-choked economic capital Lagos has announced sweeping bans on the motorbike...
Africa: Corruption in Nigeria’s oil sector
Lagos, Jan 21, 2020 - Nigeria's anti-graft agency said Tuesday it had filed corruption charges against a former...
Africa: More violence in northern Nigeria
Kano, Nigeria, Jan 20, 2020 - Heavily armed jihadists have carried out an "extremely violent" attack on a vital aid...
Nile dam dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt simmers
Metekel, Ethiopia, Jan 7, 2020 - Cell phone batteries constantly dying, health centres bereft of modern equipment, a...
Africa: Herdsmen-Boko Haram clash in Nigeria, scores dead
Boko Haram jihadists gunned down 19 cattle herders Saturday in northeast Nigeria, civilian militia sources and...
Tension over Ethiopian dam on the Nile River
Ethiopia's construction of a massive power dam on the Blue Nile is raising tensions with Egypt, which depends on the...
Africa: ISWAP kills five vigilantes in Nigeria’s Gubio region
Kano, Nigeria, Oct 1, 2019 - Jihadists killed five members of a civilian militia during an attack on a town in...
Africa: Offices of Action Against Hunger closed by Nigerian army
Kano, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2019 - The Nigerian army has shut down the office of NGO Action Against Hunger in the...
From bad to worse: life after the ordeal of Libya
Benin City, Nigeria, Sept 17, 2019 (Sophie Bouillon) - Emerging from her ordeal, Gloria considers herself...
