Africa
Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, four security sources and a West African diplomat said on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou. His detention comes after sustained gunfire rang out from military camps in the West African country ...
Burkina Faso's government confirmed Sunday gunfire in some barracks but denied the information on social media about the army takeover. Gunshots were heard early Sunday morning in barracks ...
France wants to find a way to combat terrorism in West Africa, Defense Minister Florence Parly said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference, Parly said the security situation ...
The International Alliance for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (AIDL) has renewed its total condemnation of the recruitment and exploitation of children for military purposes in ...
Libya's revenues of oil and gas exports in November and December reached record high, exceeding 4 billion U.S. dollars, the country's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on ...
Tunisian police sprayed water cannons into crowds and beat back protesters withbatons as they dispersed more than 1,000 demonstrators trying to reach central Tunis on Friday, while journalists ...
A total of 3,598 people in Nigeria died from a cholera outbreak in 2021, an official from the Federal Ministry of Water Resources said Thursday. Emmanuel Awe said ...
The Somali National Army (SNA) said on Monday that its elite forces killed 25 Shabab militants and wounded several others in intense fighting on Sunday in the southern ...
At least 200 people in Nigeria's north-western Zamfara state have been killed in a wave of vicious attacks by armed militants, residents say. The attacks are believed to be in response to military air strikes that killed more than 100 fighters on Monday and forced others from forest hideouts. Gunmen burnt homes and mutilated the ...
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has called for civil disobedience in the North African nation to topple incumbent President Kais Saied. In a statement posted on his Facebook ...
