Africa

At least 12 soldiers have been killed and eight others wounded in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso, the government said. Communications Minister Ousseni Tamboura announced in a statement on Monday that the “members of the ground forces and the rapid intervention force GARSI were ambushed” in the northwest Boucle …

Tunisia announced that more than half a million citizens received doses of the coronavirus vaccine, during the largest inoculation operation in the country. The Tunisian Ministry of Health said in a statement that “the final results of the opening day of intensive vaccination operations in all governorates of the republic …

Suspected jihadists massacred more than 40 civilians in northern Mali and killed 12 troops in an ambush in neighbouring Burkina Faso, officials said Monday, highlighting the security crisis gripping the two fragile states. More than 40 people were killed on Sunday when “terrorists” invaded the villages of Karou, Ouatagouna, and …

Mozambican and Rwandan security forces have recaptured the port town of Mocimboa da Praia, an insurgents’ stronghold, the two countries said on Sunday, adding to a growing list of retaken towns and villages. Mozambique’s northern-most province of Cabo Delgado, which has gas developments worth some $60 billion, has since 2017 …

Nigerian gunmen have kidnapped a Swiss national after opening fire on his police escort in the southwest of the country, police said on Sunday. Kidnappings occur mostly in the northwest and central states of Nigeria where heavily armed criminal gangs operate and foreign workers are also occasionally targeted for abduction …

One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday (August 7). The raid on the school in the northeastern town one …

A lawyer of Shia Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky says the Nigerian government is seeking to file a new lawsuit against the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria as part of attempts to prevent him from leaving the country for medical treatment. “We have news that the Nigerian government …

At least 20 people, including women and children, have been shot dead by members of a paramilitary group in southern Sudan, a tribal source says. The victims were those who were visiting farmers in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region for the first time in years, said Ibrahim Ahmad, a tribal chief, …

Tunisia’s interior ministry has put under house arrest a senior official of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which opposes the president’s seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said on Friday. Anouar Maarouf is the most prominent member of the party to be targeted since President Kais Saied dismissed …

Save the Children says 700,000 children under five are among the 2.3 million children affected by crisis. At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeastern Nigeria where escalating violence has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical food …

Hospital admission from prison comes days before 79-year-old is due to attend the resumption of a long-running corruption trial. South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma, jailed for contempt of court last month, has been admitted to a hospital outside prison for “medical observation”, according to officials. “Everyone who is detained, …

Tunisia’s interior ministry has put under house arrest a senior official of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which opposes the president’s seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said on Friday. Anouar Maarouf is the most prominent member of the party to be targeted since President Kais Saied dismissed …

From time to time, a body floating down the river separating Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region from Sudan was a silent reminder of a war conducted in the shadows. But in recent days, the corpses became a flow. Bloated, drained of color from their journey, the bodies were often mutilated: genitals …

The development indicates rebels continuing a weeks-long push beyond Tigray that has, according to Ethiopian officials, displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians. Rebels from Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region have seized Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the neighbouring Amhara region famed for its 12th-century rock-hewn churches, residents told the …

An armed group in northern Burkina Faso killed 30 civilians, army soldiers, and pro-government militiamen in a series of attacks near the border with Niger, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The unidentified assailants struck villages near the town of Markoye around midday on Wednesday and then attacked security forces …

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has sacked the country’s ambassador to the United States and the governor of Sfax province. It has been the latest in a string of dismissals in the recent past. On July 25, the president dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspended parliament for 30 days, in …

No explanation is given for fresh wave of dismissals by President Kais Saied who has been ruling by decree since late July. President Kais Saied has fired Tunisia’s ambassador to the United States and the governor of a key province, the latest dismissals since he provoked a political crisis last …

Martin Griffiths, during visit to Ethiopia, says ‘blanket’ accusations are ‘unfair’ and ‘need to stop’. The United Nations’ new humanitarian chief has denounced “dangerous” accusations by Ethiopian government officials that aid workers were biased in favour of rebels in Tigray, where a brutal conflict between federal troops and forces loyal …

Thirty-seven people were killed in a road accident in south-central Mali on Tuesday, the transport ministry said, after a passenger bus collided with a truck. The force of the crash, which happened 20 km (12 miles) from the town of Segou, sheared off the front section of the bus and …

At least six nationals of African countries were injured during a scuffle with police in Bengaluru over the alleged custodial death. At least six nationals of African countries have been injured during a scuffle with police in India’s southern city of Bengaluru over an alleged custodial death of a Congolese …