Deux membres de la force de maintien de la paix au Mali (Minusma) et un civil ont été tués samedi lorsque des assaillants ont tiré à l'arme lourde sur une base de l'ONU. Le groupe jihadiste Ansar Dine a revendiqué l'attaque. Deux soldats guinéens de l'ONU et un civil ont été tués samedi 28 novemb...

Deux soldats guinéens de l'ONU et un civil ont été tués samedi 28 novembre dans une attaque contre un camp de la mission de l'ONU au Mali (Minusma) à Kidal, au nord-est du pays. "Notre camp à Kidal a été attaqué tôt ce matin par des terroristes. Ils ont utilisé des roquettes" qui ont tué "deux casqu...

By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many teachers and pupils are reluctant to return because of persistent violence in the region, the United Nations said on Tuesday. ...

GENEVA Nov 30 (Reuters) - West Africa's Boko Haram Islamist militant group is expanding and there is only a small window of opportunity to stop it, the top U.N. aid official in Cameroon said on Monday. Najat Rochdi, U.N. Resident Coordinator in Cameroon, said the group's strategy was to demonstra...

(Adds detail and context throughout) YAOUNDE Nov 28 (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in a village in northern Cameroon on Saturday afternoon, killing at least five people, security sources and an official told Reuters. The attacks in the village of Dabanga...

(Adds second attack) NIAMEY Dec 1 (Reuters) - Militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram killed eight people in an attack on a village in the southeast of Niger, a private local radio station, ANFANI, said on Tuesday. The group is seeking to carve out an emirate based on a severe interpretat...

(Adds context) ABUJA Dec 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria's national assembly on Tuesday approved a supplementary budget for 2015 of 574.53 billion naira ($2.89 billion), mainly to cover fuel subsidies and ensure gasoline supplies across the vast country into the new year. Despite being Africa's biggest ...

Residents of the northeastern city Yola recall the most recent bombing and ask if anywhere is safe from Boko Haram Adamawa's state capital used to be a haven for Nigerians on the run from Boko Haram's violence. Lately, however, the city of Yola has been the site of several bombings. The most rece...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated two suicide bombs in north Cameroon overnight, killing at least three people, an official and security sources said on Wednesday. Suicide bombings, often carried out by young women recruited by the Islamist militant group in neighbourin...

À l'étude depuis la visite à Bamako de la ministre allemande de la Défense, fin juillet, l'envoi d'un contingent allemand destiné à renforcer la Minusma, la mission onusienne, a été accéléré par les attentats du 13 novembre à Paris. Surtout, il sera sensiblement plus important que prévu : 650 sol...