Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an island army base, in their deadliest assault yet on the country’s armed forces. President Idriss…
African nations have ordered curfews and lockdowns in response to the growing coronavirus epidemic, raising fears of turmoil for low-income workers and cash-strapped governments across the continent. Cases have risen…
France on Tuesday said it planned to organise financial aid for poor countries, especially in Africa, to help them from becoming future sources of coronavirus contamination. “We will have the…
More than 1,000 Algerian passengers are stranded at Istanbul airport because of the new coronavirus pandemic, the facility’s operator said Tuesday, as Ankara urged Algiers to allow their return home.…
A German army shipment of six million face masks needed to protect against the novel coronavirus has vanished in Kenya, the defence ministry in Berlin confirmed on Tuesday. “We are…
Several people have been killed in southern Guinea, according to local officials, in an outbreak of violence after the country’s contested constitutional referendum. The number killed in Nzerekore, the West…
Sixty-four migrants from Ethiopia were found dead on Tuesday, crammed inside a freight container in the northwestern Mozambican province of Tete, a senior hospital official said. The victims were discovered…
Cameroon’s government on Tuesday announced the country’s first death due to coronavirus, saying the victim had returned from Italy and was already infected on his arrival. The official count of…
In Nigeria, the decade-long war with the terrorist group has seen more than 500 women kidnapped and deployed as suicide bombers. Many refused to kill and escaped. Dionne Searcey tells…
