Africa

Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed more than 20 people including multiple children in their latest attack on northern Cameroon, easily overwhelming the few soldiers posted at the targeted village, residents said on Monday.

Former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre was forcibly brought to a court in Senegal on Tuesday, where judges adjourned his trial until September 7 to let appointed lawyers prepare his defence. Prison guards brought Habre, dressed in a white robe and turban, into the special court in the capital Dakar, an …

Libyan political leaders reached a new version of a UN-brokered peace deal on Saturday, putting pressure on the Tripoli leadership to sign on and build a unity government in hopes of ending the country’s chaos. The Tripoli government took part in earlier stages of talks but refused to participate in …

Four people were killed and 15 wounded when a rocket hit a residential district in the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi on Sunday, medics said. There was no immediate claim for the attack. Islamic State militants have claimed previous rocket attacks in Libya’s second-largest city where army forces allied …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the hopes for South Sudan when it became independent four years ago have turned to despair. Ban says that’s because the world’s newest nation has become engulfed in conflict with “unconscionable levels of violence and unspeakable sexual abuse”.

The United States on Monday roundly condemned Boko Haram’s “horrific and indiscriminate” attack targeting civilians in Chad, as well as recent assaults elsewhere in Africa by the radical militants. Four people died in a suicide blast in the restive city of Maiduguri, while at least 11 people were killed when …

French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius was to visit the Central African Republic (CAR) Monday before travelling to Ethiopia for A UN conference on development finance. Fabius’s fifth visit to the CAR’s capital Bangui in less than two years was planned to show support for President Catherine Samba-Panza, the French …

The EU Thursday condemned the continued human rights violations in South Sudan and called for the leaders of the country to be held accountable for the suffering of the people. “Four years ago, leaders from around the world gathered in Juba to celebrate the birth of an independent South Sudan. …

Algeria was mobilising the army on Thursday after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes between Berbers and Arabs in years, as more details emerged of the violence. The fighting erupted late on Tuesday in the town of Guerara in the M’zab valley, a Unesco world heritage site …

At least 14 people were killed in battles in Libya’s second city Benghazi between militiamen and forces loyal to the internationally recognised government, hospital officials said on Thursday. The fighting erupted on Wednesday morning in the centre of the city, cradle of the 2011 Nato-backed uprising that toppled and killed …