Category: Rest of Africa

Aid agencies said militant Boko Haram group and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have been fighting Nigerian security forces in northeast Nigeria for over a decade, displacing more than 2 million people and killing hundreds of others.

Clashes have forced more than 185,000 people to flee their homes in a contested border town in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, the UN's emergency response agency said.

In a series of meetings in Addis Ababa, the countries’ foreign ministers met and lobbied with members of the African Union Peace and Security Council, the organ that normally imposes sanctions on member states for illegal changes in government.

At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromiya region this month in an attack by a banned rebel group, the state-appointed human rights commission said on Wednesday.

The Department of State announced on Tuesday that the delegation will “meet with stakeholders to discuss the global food security crisis and its disproportionate impact on Africa, as well as to follow up on US commitments made at the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit”.

On Monday, officials announced they had arrested 492 rogue vessels belonging to illegal merchants in some parts of the country. But this relative success could be at the cost of fatigue as the security forces have been kept busy in nearly all the 36 states of...

Their intervention followed the passing of the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill, which seeks to restrict operations of civil society organisations in Zimbabwe.

Mr Kenyatta, president of Kenya between 2013 and 2022, will lead a team of 90 observers to the Nigerian elections due on February 25.

Security experts fear that the problem may distract authorities from fighting Al-Shabaab, allowing the militants to infiltrate the area.

Their offering – guns for hire – has remained essentially the same for decades. However, they’ve recently undergone an evolution that forces countries to look more closely at their roles – which range from technical advisers to frontline combatants.