(United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the U.N. Security Council for 1,030 more peacekeepers for Central African Republic after the mission was left overstretched when infrastructure and senior officials needed to be protected in the capital, Bangui.)

(African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria. Samil Chergui, the head of the African Union’s (AU) peace and security council, said the decision was made after the council urged heads of state…

[Le Caire – Onze personnes ont été tuées et 30 blessées dimanche en Egypte, au moment où le pays marque le quatrième anniversaire de la révolte de 2011 qui chassa Hosni Moubarak du pouvoir, selon un média d’Etat. ]

(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the…

(It was a hyena that killed the boy, but four elderly women got the blame. Villagers slashed them with machetes then set fire to their bodies for casting spells on the wild animal. “They cut her with machetes,” said Sufia Shadrack, the…

(Protests in Niger left 10 people dead as rioters torched churches, wrecked bars and blocked several major roads during two days of demonstrations against a French magazine cover depicting the Prophet Muhammad. )

(An outbreak of Ebola that has claimed more than 8,400 lives in West Africa appears to be slowing down, though the battle to contain the disease is not over, the U.N. special envoy on Ebola said on Thursday.)

(Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said. “The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act,”…

(Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere and as many as 2,000 people feared dead, officials said. “The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram’s deadliest act,”…

(Chad’s prime minister has appealed for international aid for thousands of Nigerian refugees who fled attacks by Islamist militant group Boko Haram across the border into the Lake Chad region.Around 2,000 Nigerians and 500 Chadians crossed the border into Chad in recent…