Jihadists

Boko Haram jihadists attacked Nigeria’s city of Maiduguri in the volatile northeast killing 16 people, including nine children who were playing football in a field, local militia told AFP Wednesday. Officials said previously 10…

Four soldiers were killed on Monday in Niger and eight others seriously injured after an explosion at an artisanal mine in the south-eastern part of the country near the border with Nigeria. According to the ministry of defence,…

At least 20 persons have been killed by suspected jihadists in attacks in three villages in northern Burkina Faso, the epicentre of a five-year-old jihadist insurgency, government officials said on Thursday. The attacks took…

Barely 24 hours after 10 Malian soldiers were killed in an overnight ambush; two French soldiers were on Saturday killed when their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device. The two soldiers including another injured…

By Ikechukwu Odu in Enugu An international human rights organisation, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has alleged that no fewer than 1,421 Christians have been hacked to death in seven months by…