(African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria. Samil Chergui, the head of the African Union’s (AU) peace and security council, said the decision was made after the council urged heads of state to endorse the deployment of troops from five West African countries to fight…
[Le Caire – Onze personnes ont été tuées et 30 blessées dimanche en Egypte, au moment où le pays marque le quatrième anniversaire de la révolte de 2011 qui chassa Hosni Moubarak du pouvoir, selon un média d’Etat. ]
(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the daughter of one of the murdered women in her small village in Tanzania’s…
(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the daughter of one of the murdered women in her small village in Tanzania’s…
(Protests in Niger left 10 people dead as rioters torched churches, wrecked bars and blocked several major roads during two days of demonstrations against a French magazine cover depicting the Prophet Muhammad. )
(An outbreak of Ebola that has claimed more than 8,400 lives in West Africa appears to be slowing down, though the battle to contain the disease is not over, the U.N. special envoy on Ebola said on Thursday.)
(Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said. “The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act,” Amnesty International said in a statement.)
(Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said. “The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act,” Amnesty International said in a statement.)
(Chad’s prime minister has appealed for international aid for thousands of Nigerian refugees who fled attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram across the border into the Lake Chad region.Around 2,000 Nigerians and 500 Chadians crossed the border into Chad in recent days, joining around 1,000 Nigerians who arrived some months ago, Prime Minister Kalzeubet…
(PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma, as head of the Southern African Development Community’s (Sadc) organ on politics, defence and security, has appealed to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) to comply with a call to surrender their arms. The FDLR operates in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).)
