A West African al Qaeda affiliate, Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed to have killed 200 soldiers in an attack on an army base in Burkina Faso's northern...

President Bola Tinubu has inducted two attack helicopters, NAF544 and NAF545, into the Nigerian Air Force fleet to strengthen the military's air power and tackle the challenge of insecurity in...

Gunmen on motorcycles have killed a lawyer and his client in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The victims were ambushed while driving in a red Toyota...

The Defence Headquarters has denied a viral video circulating on social media that claims to show footage of a recent terrorist attack on troops in Marte, Borno State. According to...

Malian armed forces are alleged to have arrested and killed around two dozen Fulani civilians who were rounded up at a livestock market in a central region of Mali. The...

Thirty-five people were killed and six wounded in an intercommunal clash in Chad's southwest province of Logone Occidental, according to a government spokesperson. The incident occurred in a village on...

Chad's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Succes Masra was abducted by security forces from his home on Friday morning, according to a member of his party. The reason behind...

Former Gabon president Ali Bongo, ousted in a coup last year, has flown to Angola with his wife and son. They were transferred from prison to house arrest just last...

Abi Daré, a Nigerian author and University of Wolverhampton law graduate, has been announced as the first winner of the Climate Fiction Prize for her novel "And So I Roar",...

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has sounded the alarm, warning that its ban from political activity poses a serious threat to the 2022 peace deal that ended two years...