Daredevil terrorists have killed at least 41 persons and injured scores of others in a barrage of attacks on several communities in Safana Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. The attacks
Former director general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Temisan Omatseye, has alleged that the indigenous fishing trawlers are being attacked at sea by International offshore shipping vessels.
Sudanese rebels have attacked several polling stations in war-torn South Kordofan state during nationwide elections widely expected to extend President Omar al-Bashir's 25-year rule.
Gunmen in Somalia's capital on Tuesday blasted their way into the higher education ministry, with police reporting a huge explosion from a car bomb followed by heavy fighting in an ongoing attack.
A statue of an Afrikaner hero was defaced in South Africa on Sunday, the latest in a series of anti-colonial protests that has forced the country to square its racist past with
Malawi has ordered police to shoot "dangerous criminals" who attack albinos in order to sell their body parts for witchcraft. "Shoot every criminal who is violent when caught red-handed abducting people with
Seven civilians were killed in an attack in Chad blamed on Nigerian Boko Haram rebels, officials said Monday. The Islamist militants ambushed people on their way to a market in Tchoukou Telia
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday warned Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab fighters his government will respond to their killing of almost 150 students in the "severest way" possible.
Gunmen were on Thursday holding an "unknown number of student hostages" at a university in northern Kenya after storming the campus at dawn, the Kenya Red Cross said in a statement.
New Orleans police shot a man three times at the Louis Armstrong International Airport Friday after he attacked border agents with a machete and wasp spray, officials said.