After devastating back-to-back civil wars in Liberia, the UN launched a peacekeeping mission in September 2003 to ensure security, rebuild police and military forces from scratch, and disarm rebels. On June 30, the mission known as Unmil finally hands back security to Liberia’s military and police. In August 2003 a …

An air strike launched by Nigerian government forces has killed a total of 15 Boko Haram fighters who were planning a violent attack in the restive northeastern state of Borno, military authorities said on Monday. The terrorists, who had assembled in Kangarawa axis, located in the northern part of Borno …

Seventeen fighters of an armed group in a Bangui suburb were killed and 30 others injured during violent confrontation with UN peacekeepers in Central African Republic, Red Cross and hospital sources told Xinhua on Tuesday. A team of UN peacekeepers was confronted with violent resistance on Monday afternoon in Bangui’s …