Seven dead, dozens missing after attack in northern Nigeria | Armed Groups News
Residents say gunmen on motorbikes arrived in Maidabino village in Katsina state and started shooting sporadically. At least seven people were killed and 100 kidnapped…
Residents say gunmen on motorbikes arrived in Maidabino village in Katsina state and started shooting sporadically. At least seven people were killed and 100 kidnapped…
Palma, Mozambique – It was late afternoon and darkness was approaching when Awa Salama* heard pops of gunfire and explosions: The fighters were coming. As…
Surviving family members awarded $38.3m after Chiquita found liable for funding armed group that killed their relatives. A court in the United States has ordered…
Attack in Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman comes as UN says internal displacement across Sudan is nearing 10 million. Pro-democracy activists in Sudan say about…
Sanctions aim to ‘counter Russia’s destabilizing activities in Africa’, US Treasury Department says. The United States has sanctioned two firms in the Central African Republic…
Kenyan President William Ruto is on a visit to the United States this week, amid efforts to deepen economic and security cooperation between the two…
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly…
The incident took place in the southern state of Johor in the early hours of Friday morning. Two police officers have been killed and one…
UN officials and rights groups warn hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk amid heavy fighting in el-Fasher. The United States has imposed sanctions…
President Filipe Nyusi said the country’s army is battling ISIL-linked groups in gas-rich Cabo Delgado’s Macomia. Mozambique’s army is fighting armed groups who launched a…
The United States is preparing to withdraw more than 1,000 military personnel from Niger, once a front-line partner in its war against the ISIL (ISIS)…
A Human Rights Watch report on Thursday accused the military of executing residents in Nodin and Soro, including at least 56 children. Burkina Faso has…
Drug seizures, mainly of cocaine and cannabis resin, have soared in the region, according to a UN report. Drug seizures have soared in the West…
Deportations ‘could be a death sentence’, advocates say, as gang violence and instability grip the Caribbean country. The United States has sent dozens of Haitian…
Maiduguri, Nigeria – It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a…
Rights advocates are calling on countries across the Americas — notably the United States and the Dominican Republic — to stop deporting migrants and asylum…
Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok,…
War is on the doorstep of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Goma city and the region is at breaking point, activists and aid workers…
Islamabad, Pakistan: In the 10 days between March 16 and March 26, Pakistan witnessed five different attacks, three in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and…
Canada has organised helicopter flights for ‘vulnerable’ citizens to leave Haiti for the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Canada has launched a programme to get its citizens…