Boko Haram fighters stormed a village in northeast Nigeria and murdered two civilians, while six people were killed in an attack in northern Cameroon, a local resident and security sources told AFP on Monday. The attacks came as Nigeria’s military again maintained the jihadists had been defeated, and that its repeated raids and suicide bombings […]

Camerounian soldiers, penultimate Monday, invaded a Nigerian community in Cross River State, the second time in two months, leaving in its wake tears and blood. According to reports, the soldiers shot sporadically in search of separatists, who fled from Cameroun into Danare Community in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, apparently to take […]

Security forces in Cameroon have killed at least five civilians in the country’s restive Anglophone region from late last week through the weekend, multiple sources have disclosed. On Friday, two people were reportedly shot dead on a road linking Bamenda (capital of the northwest region) to a neighbouring town of Bafut. A security source said […]

A leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials said Monday. A family member went to Esmond Bradley Martin’s house on Sunday to check on him after he did not respond to phone calls and found the body on […]

At least four civilians have been killed in a suspected militant attack in northern Mali over the weekend, local officials said Sunday. An unknown number of the attackers were also killed in fighting as the “suspected militants killed at least four civilians around Talataye,” a northeastern town of around 14,000 people, regional officials told AFP. […]