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Nigeria’s military killed more than 50 Boko Haram militants in response to drone attacks on military bases in the country’s northeast, the army said Thursday. Army spokesperson Sani Uba said in a statement that militants launched simultaneous attacks on military bases in Borno and Yobe states early...

Demonstrations for the release of a separatist leader in Nigeria’s capital city turned violent on Monday as police fired tear gas and arrested dozens of protesters, as well as a journalist with French news agency Agence France-Presse, who was released shortly afterwards. Witnesses and journalists...

A New York jury has found that French banking giant BNP Paribas’s work in Sudan helped to prop up the regime of former ruler Omar al-Bashir, making it liable for atrocities that took place under his rule. The eight-member jury on Friday sided with three plaintiffs originally from Sudan, awarding a...

Madagascar has sworn in an army colonel as president, just days after a military takeover on the back of a popular rebellion that sent President Andry Rajoelina fleeing into exile. The African island nation’s High Constitutional Court on Friday formalized the appointment of Colonel Michael...

Kenyan police opened fire Thursday, killing two people as they tried to control a crowd of mourners gathered for a public viewing of the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, an influential politician who died a day earlier in India, officials said. The country’s head of police operations...

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina was toppled Tuesday in a military coup that capped weeks of youth protests over poverty, power outages, and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country. Right after parliament voted to impeach Rajoelina, who fled the country fearing for his safety...

Militia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in western Sudan, a local activist group has said. The resistance committee for El Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group hit the Dar al-Arqam...

At least 237 people were arrested Saturday in Ivory Coast during a protest against what activists called the country’s authoritarian drift, according to a statement by the Minister of the Interior and Security on national television. Protesters reported the use of tear gas and makeshift roadblocks...

At least 1,000 anti-government protesters have marched in Madagascar’s capital to demand that the president resign, as police used tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. The demonstration on Thursday comes in the third week of the most significant unrest to hit the...

At least 12 people have been killed and 17 were wounded when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled a hospital in Sudan’s North Darfur state, medical sources said. The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement on Wednesday that the RSF “directly bombed” the facility. It alleged the...