Nigerian soldiers have sacked Islamist fighters belonging to Boko Haram from Alagarno, a town in Damboa local government area. Alagarno was one of the insurgent group’s strongholds. A senior military source said the routed insurgents were fleeing, adding that he believed their leader, Abubakar Shekau, was among those now on …

Houthi forces pulled back from a central Aden district on Friday and aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition dropped weapons and medical aid to fighters defending the southern Yemeni city, a last symbolic foothold of the country’s absent president. The Shi’ite Houthi fighters and their allies withdrew from Crater neighbourhood as …

The number killed in Kenya’s university massacre rose to 148 people, Kenya’s interior minister said Friday as he declared operations to recover bodies over. The final toll from yesterday’s carnage in the college in the northeastern town of Garissa included 142 students, three police officers and three soldiers, Interior Minister …