Lakurawa fighters have been spotted in Niger, Kebbi, and now Kwara. Kwara is a state in Nigeria’s northcentral region, bordered to the west by Benin Republic and less than Survivors reported that attackers came from forests near Kwara’s border with Niger State. “They move from Kaduna to Niger, then down into Kwara and even Kogi. The federal government recently announced new operations against terrorist groups in Northcentral Nigeria

Algeria is also worried about the escalating situation in Libya, its eastern neighbour—another country Algeria has called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to halt "mercenary activities" in On Monday, Ammar Benjamaa, Algeria's representative to the UN, urged international accountability for "those responsible for a drone attack" that struck civilians in Mali's Tinzaouatene, near the Algeria-Mali Though Algeria maintains good ties with Moscow, Benjamaa appeared to be hinting at the Wagner Group,

at least 50,000 individual signatures from registered voters or from 600 members from at least 29 of Algeria

Tales of atrocities dominate accounts of Liberia's years of civil war but not a single person has been He has a clear memory of the day when the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels came to his Liberia's Civil War Liberia endured two bouts of brutal fighting in 1989-1997 and 1999-2003 Charles Taylor If a war crimes court comes to Liberia and people are prosecuted no-one would use child soldiers again words are echoed by campaigner Adama Dempster from the Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia

No country better exemplifies this tragic reality than Nigeria. The most populous and commercially significant country in Africa, Nigeria is the site of what has been He explained that Nigeria's deteriorating security and rapidly escalating violence serve as a warning Boko Haram has killed more civilians in Nigeria than ISIS slaughtered in Iraq and Syria combined. Nigeria may very well implode.

denouncing state corruption or expressing solidarity with detainees, Amnesty International said as Algeria “Sixty years after Algeria was recognized as an independent nation, basic freedoms and human rights are Almost one month after Debbazi’s death, Algeria’s Minister of Justice said, citing an autopsy report, Earlier this year, one refugee was abducted in Tunisia before being forcibly returned to Algeria and least three dual nationals residing in Canada were arbitrarily arrested or interrogated upon arrival in Algeria

A third of those deaths were in only four countries — Somalia, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. Most of those interviewed were former members of Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Shabaab in Somalia and Jama Much of northern Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso are inaccessible because of the security threat, and

The new list includes the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria

Northeastern Nigeria, now in its eighth year of war with Boko Haram, has become a place afraid of its But The New York Times tracked down and interviewed 18 girls in Nigeria who were sent on suicide missions In recent months, Nigeria’s gains in beating back Boko Haram – retaking territory and capturing militant United States is preparing to sell half a billion dollars’ worth of attack planes and other material to Nigeria past six years, women have accounted for the majority of suicide bombings by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria

2 refugee designation to grant access for at-risk religious groups in Afghanistan, and to designate Nigeria Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—as well as five others: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria Regrettably, the State Department removed Nigeria as a CPC though it had been added the previous year These include three that the State Department placed on that list in November 2021: Algeria, Cuba, and

Pius Adeleye in Niamey Tues 31 Dec 2024 A camp for internally displaced people in Ouallam, Niger. The Nigerien junta has been struggling to contain the rising tide of jihadist attacks in the tri-border An image from a video showing the attack by jihadists in Libiri, in Niger’s Tillabéri region, earlier The Nigerien junta and Russian-backed media claimed only 10 men were lost. From left, Mali’s Assimi Goïta, Niger’s Tchiani and Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré.

they rent out their weapons to kidnappers from Chad, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and even Niger or Nigeria." mobile commandos to the Chadian border to generate revenue from kidnappings, as they already do in Nigeria