Africa
Boko Haram war spills into Chad
Authorities in Chad announced the arrest of key Boko Haram leaders amid a wave of deadly suicide bombngs in the capital, N'Djamena.
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Africa
Ivory Coast fights Ansar Dine along Mali border
Ivory Coast sent troops into Mali after Islamist militia Ansar Dine staged a series of raids along the border between the two countries, briefly seizing several towns.
Africa
Ethiopia: army ‘massacre’ of tribespeople
Conflict between Ethiopian soldiers and Hamar pastoralists left dozens dead as tribespeople resist forced relocation from their traditional grazing lands which are being privatized.
Africa
Uganda: displaced villagers protest land-grab
Villagers forcibly relocated by Uganda's government during the war with the Lord's Resistance Army now find that their traditional lands have been eclosed as private game reserves.
Africa
Sudan: mass rape by army in Darfur
Sudanese army forces raped more than 200 women and girls in an organized attack on the north Darfur town of Tabit in October, Human Rights Watch charges.
Africa
Sahara drug trade funds Boko Haram insurgency
Traffickers have established a dope-for-guns pipeline across the Sahel and Sahara, integrating Boko Haram into drug-smuggling networks that stretch to Asia.
Africa
Chad to fight Boko Haram in Cameroon
Advance units of a thousands-strong Chadian intervention force arrived in Cameroon to fight Boko Haram rebels. A critical oil pipeline passes through the war-torn border.
Africa
China sends combat troops to South Sudan
A 700-strong Chinese battalion is headed for South Sudan as part of a UN "peacekeeping" mission—but the deployment follows China's massive investment in the country's oil sector.
Africa
Boko Haram massacres 2,000: Amnesty
Up to 2,000 are feared dead in an ongoing massacre after Boko Haram seized Baga, a town on Nigeria's border with Chad in Borno state. The town was reportedly "razed to the ground."
Africa
Police ‘anti-crime’ extermination campaign in DRC
The decades-long civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is leaving in its wake a police state that sees impoverished youth as a threat and seeks to exterminate them.
Africa
ICC halts Darfur probe; Bashir threatens rebels
The International Criminal Court suspended its Darfur investigation, citing UN inaction in the case, as President Omar al-Bashir accused rebel leaders of being foreign "agents."
Africa
Somalia: women slain in spiralling reprisals
At least seven women were killed in "barbaric" attacks in Somalia after Shabab insurgents beheaded a soldier's wife, prompting revenge executions of the wives of jihadists.