A report by Amnesty International details atrocities committed by Boko Haram in northern Cameroon, resulting in the killing of at least 400 civilians over the past months.
The special tribunal hearing the war crimes case against Chad's ex-dictator Hissène Habré will now also hear charges against sitting president Idriss Deby, Habré's former army chief.
Burundi human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was wounded in an assassination attempt a day after the slaying of the divided the country's feared security chief.
Boko Haram, now calling itself Islamic State West Africa, carried out a wave of deadly suicide bombings as a multilateral military alliance prepares to take the field against the jihadists.
After twin deadly suicide bombings by two women wearing burqas, authorities in Northern Cameroon have banned women from wearing burqas and face-covering veils.
Authorities in Chad announced the arrest of key Boko Haram leaders amid a wave of deadly suicide bombngs in the capital, N'Djamena.
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.
Amnesty International urged Cameroon to end the six-month detention of 84 children being held after raids on Koranic schools in a crackdown on Boko Haram.
Conflict between Ethiopian soldiers and Hamar pastoralists left dozens dead as tribespeople resist forced relocation from their traditional grazing lands which are being privatized.
Some 8,000 Nigerian civilians have been killed since 2011 in abuses by security forces, Amnesty International reports, accusing the military of crimes agaist humanity.
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.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner called on governments to investigate claims of grave rights abuses by their peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic.
