The father of Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson has died after drowning in a lake near his holiday home in southern Brazil on Wednesday, according to local...
The World Bank on Monday said it would invest over $5 billion (Ksh.547.8billion) over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve...
The government of Cameroon this week began rolling out an unlikely weapon in the fight against Boko Haram militants. Authorities are distributing t...
The U.N. refugee agency says an upsurge in violence in northwest Nigeria since April has driven an estimated 20,000 people to seek safety in neighbori...
A delegation from the Kenyan military is sharing experience on how the Cameroon military engineering corps has taken over road construction projects i...
The Multi-National Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission made up of forces from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Niger, has deployed troops af...
On 14 April 2014, Boko Haram, the violent extremist group operating in the Lake Chad region, abducted 276 girls from their school dormitory in north-e...
The United Nations reports armed men killed dozens of civilians and displaced thousands during increasingly violent and frequent attacks last month in...
Jihadist group Islamic State said Thursday that it had killed 13 Nigerian soldiers and five troops from a west African anti-militant force in attacks ...
The governor of Cameroon's Far North region is denying a report that tens of thousands of Nigerian refugees who fled Boko Haram-related violence will ...
French warplanes struck a rebel convoy in northern Chad on Sunday, helping local troops repel an incursion across the border from Libya, a sign France...
The U.N. refugee agency says thousands of Nigerian refugees are fleeing to Chad to escape a surge of violence in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state....
Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. childr...
Armed men kidnapped 15 girls overnight in southeastern Niger, the local mayor said on Saturday. Boukar Mani Orthe, the mayor of Toumour in Niger’...
Chadian strongman Idriss Deby has appointed new defense and security ministers in a cabinet reshuffle following sustained rebel attacks in the north b...
Residents of the Nigerian town of Dapchi were hoping Sunday for the release of the last schoolgirl, who is also a Christian, from among a group of mor...
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video Tuesday pledging to continue attacks days after Nigeria's military repeated that the jihadist group...
Nigeria's military says more than 700 people abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have escaped captivity in the northeast of the country...
When Koutu Saimon's son, Wheener, was born almost four months premature and "as small as a mouse," friends and relatives in Chad turned to the new mot...
The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could...