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At least 27 people were killed overnight from Saturday to Sunday, in the Toumour area, in the Diffa region, in south-eastern Niger. According to an official from the Bosso department to which this municipality belongs, this attack was carried out by the Boko Haram group. Early in the evening, nearly 70 armed men arrived in the…

In Chad, security forces looted a private radio station on Friday, November 27, arresting nearly 70 people. Most of those arrested were released on Friday afternoon, several sources said.

At the very least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria's unrest after days of peaceable protests over police abuses, the president mentioned on Friday, accusing "hooliganism" of the violence, claiming that safety forces have used "excessive restraint". President Muhammadu Buhari's feedback are anticipated to additional stir tensions in Africa's most populous…

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 individuals, together with 13 troopers in a number of assaults in central Mali, burned down a military base and ambushed troops despatched as reinforcements, the military and native authorities mentioned on Tuesday. The assaults had been lethal because the August 18 army coup that toppled…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 50 women accuse employees of UN agencies and international NGOs of sexual abuse. WHO, among the accused agencies, announces the initiation of an investigation. This reveals a signed study The New Humanitarian and Thomson Reuters Foundation. Facts would have taken place between 2018 and 2020 as part of the fight against Ebola viruses. Women who never reported the rapes for fear of retaliation are accusing several employees of UN agencies and NGOs of sexual abuse. They are…

The death toll from a jihadist attack on the convoy of the regional governor of northeastern Nigeria has risen to 30, security sources said on Saturday. Two sources told AFP deaths from Friday's attack in the returning Borno state had doubled as more bodies were found and now included 12 police officers, five soldiers, four members of a government-backed militia and nine civilians. "The number has risen to 30 as many corpses were picked in the surrounding areas after the attack," said one of the sources, adding that…