President Joe Biden on Thursday directed U.S. military air strikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-b...
Somalia’s government announced the end of a seven-hour deadly siege at Hotel Afrik in Mogadishu Sunday night, which left nine people dead. Mohame...
Ugandan troops have withdrawn from around the home of opposition leader and pop star Bobi Wine, ending his house arrest since a Jan. 14 election won b...
Kenya Defence Special Forces soldiers early Sunday raided and destroyed an Al-Shabaab terrorist group camp in the vast Boni Forest, Lamu County. Th...
Police have recovered part of the body of an Assistant Chief who was abducted by suspected Al Shabaab militants on Friday last week. The head of Mr...
Parents sobbed, mobbed their children in hugs and even kissed the ground in gratitude on Friday as they reunited with scores of Nigerian schoolboys wh...
Security forces rescued nearly 350 Nigerian schoolboys who had been kidnapped and taken into a vast forest, Katsina state Governor said. It was not...
In the wake of Somalia's announcement this week that it is severing diplomatic ties with Kenya, the government says it will not expel Somali diplomats...
The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina state, acco...
The United States on Monday placed Nigeria on a religious freedom blacklist, paving the way for potential sanctions if it does not improve its record....
A Nigerian yellow fever outbreak detected early last month is worsening and causing many cases and deaths across five of the country’s 36 states. ...
Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African and Horn region...
The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanis...
Gunmen abducted a man moments after he was released from State custody a day after he was acquitted of charges of helping al Shabaab militants storm t...
Six passengers were injured on Tuesday morning after suspected Al Shabaab militants sprayed a bus they were traveling in with bullets between Elwak an...
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) on Wednesday announced new guidelines for recruiting teachers in the country. This year’s recruitment will ...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that res...
A police officer was on Friday morning killed and three others injured after suspected al-shabaab gunmen attacked a police station in Garissa. The ...
Russian intelligence officers for the military intelligence GRU recently offered money to Taliban militants in Afghanistan as rewards if they killed U...
Islamic militants killed at least 20 soldiers and more than 40 civilians and injured hundreds in twin attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on ...