International rights groups are demanding an investigation after the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram rebels reportedly “died in police custody.” Some 300 were killed in the 72-hour offensive.
Rebels of a group known as the “Nigerian Taliban” expanded attacks against security forces to three northern states, leaving at least 80 people dead in two days of clashes.
Chad admitted to an air raid on rebel positions in Darfur, but denied attacking Sudan’s armed forces or populace in the raid.
Tens of thousands have taken to the streets in Niger to protest President Mamadou Tandja’s plan for a new constitution to abolish term limits and give him more power after 10 years as president.
Police arrested 13 women in a raid on a cafe in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and flogged 10 of them in public for wearing trousers.
The Nigerian government freed militant leader Henry Okah, meeting a demand by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)—one day after rebels blew up an oil depot in Lagos.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has filed an appeal to have Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir charged with genocide—but AU leaders say they will not cooperate in his arrest.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) blew up a Chevron platform “in retaliation” for the “abduction of a traditional chief” by Nigeria’s Joint Task Force.
More voices are raised calling for the West to play a Sufi card against Islamist insurgents in Somalia, as well as Pakistan and elsewhere. But will this only destroy the Sufis’ credibility?
A sharia court run by Somalia’s Shabab insurgents in Mogadishu sentenced four teenagers to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment for stealing cellphones.
Presumed militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) attacked Shell facilities in the latest escalation of its “all-out war” on the Nigerian government and oil companies.
Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed into Somalia after the transitional government there made a plea for foreign forces to help battle insurgents.
