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An armed group has kidnapped almost 400 male college students from a boarding faculty in northern Nigeria, native media reported on Saturday. The assault on the highschool happened within the morning within the city of Kankara within the northwestern province of Katsina alongside the Niger border. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the assault in his house nation, saying safety forces had found the armed group hiding within the forest and an operation had been launched. Katsina State Police…

In Burkina Faso, the security situation continues to deteriorate in Soum province, in the north of the country, on the border with Mali. For several weeks, armed men have taken control of gold laundries, one of the most important economic activities in the region. This is especially the case with the Inata mine. "Today it is…

Sudan, which has opened its doorways to refugees, has additionally strongly militarized its border space to guard itself from abundance to its territory. The Sudanese military has additionally introduced that it has arrested a Tigrayan militia chief together with a dozen troopers. as reported from Khartoum, Eliott Brachet and…

The Constitutional Court issued its decision on Friday, November 27, on the admissibility of candidacies for the by-elections on December 27, which will be linked to the presidential election. The Court has listed the names of the 1585 alternate candidates for the 140 seats in the Central African National Assembly. The President of the Court, Danielle Darlan, in particular closed the door to candidates…

In Bangui, this Friday, November 20, members of armed groups, members of the Advisory and Monitoring Committee (CCS) for Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration, Home Transport (DDRR), expressed their dissatisfaction with the DDRR Ministry. The blocked authorities spent a few hours in their offices demanding their unpaid compensation. Palms are hung at the entrance to the ministry, the offices are closed. Jean-Rock Soubi, FDPC and member of the DDRR's Advisory and Monitoring Committee: “If you see us in this ministry,…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian began a two-day visit to Mali on Sunday 25 October. He met with the armed movements that signed Algeria's peace agreement to talk about the peace process. as reported from Bamako,Serge DanielShortly after his arrival in Bamako, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met separately…

In the highlands of Minembwe, there are thousands of displaced refugees near the UN mission in Congo and without international assistance. There are almost 3,000 in Mikenge, mostly Banyamulenge, and they say they have suffered many attacks. With our special correspondent in Mikenge, Sonia RolleyIn Mikenge, the displaced say…

Woungly Massaga, revolutionary pan-Africanist, figure in the armed struggle for Cameroon's independence, died on Saturday 17 October in Yaoundé at the age of 84. Nicknamed "Commander Kissamba", Woungly Massagafut in the late 1960s, one of the leaders of this independence movement that was in conflict with the Cameroonian power Ahamadou Ahidjo and France. He died in Yaoundé on Saturday, October 17, at the age of 84. In the early 1970s, he revived the UPC, a party founded to gain Carmoun's independence after the…

How have hundreds of Mayi-Mayi entered Lubumbashi, and why did no force oppose Bakata Katanga for several hours? The questions abound after the bloody intrusion led by these Katangese separatists, and this while the authorities in Kinshasa are surrounded by silence. For many lush residents, there is a dysfunction in the police hierarchy. The deputy provincial commissioner in charge of the operations and the intelligence service have been out of action for a long time, condemns human rights activist Timothée Mbuya.…

Paul Rusesabagina, the polarizing hero from the hit film "Hotel Rwanda", admitted in a court in Kigali on Friday that he had helped form an armed group, but denied any role in its crimes. Rusesabagina is famous for his portrayal of Don Cheadle in the 2004 film, in which a moderate hutu is shown saving hundreds of lives in a luxury hotel during the 1994 genocide, leaving about 800,000, mostly Tutsi, dead. However, a more complex picture has emerged since he appeared in Kigali under arrest under mysterious circumstances…