Understanding why members leave Boko Haram is important – it provides authorities with information that can be used to counter terrorism in the area. The recent departures are occurring mainly in Nigeria, specifically Borno State.

A civil society observer group is attributing the success of Rwandan troops in early battles against insurgents in the Cabo Delgado province to their capacity to fight back in ambushes. The Rwandans are also being

Ten years ago, Kais Bouazizi and Tawfik Abidi sat in a cafe in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid to draft a platform for their new political party, The Scales, as they campaigned for seats

Around 11,000 people fleeing clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon arrived in neighbouring Chad at the weekend, a provincial governor in Chad said on Monday. About 20 people have been killed in what

Sudanese leaders on Monday visited a disputed area along the country’s eastern border with Ethiopia, amid growing tensions between the two East African nations that have seen Khartoum ordering its envoy to Addis Ababa home

Sept personnes ont été tuées lundi dans l’attaque d’un convoi emmenant des employés vers un site gazier de Shell dans le sud-est du Nigeria, a indiqué mercredi la police nigériane. Selon le porte-parole de la

La France a suspendu depuis juillet sa coopération militaire avec l’Ethiopie, théâtre depuis neuf mois d’un conflit entre rebelles et forces gouvernementales dans la région du Tigré (nord), où la famine menace des centaines de

MOZAMBIQUE Rwandan soldiers helped government troops deal a blow to the country’s Islamist insurgency Sunday, retaking Mocímboa da Praia, a port town immediately south of major natural gas deposits. The militants, known as al-Shabab, had