A tank positioned at a roundabout in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Monday

Chad says 300 rebels killed after election day offensive

Politics Apr 20
Fighting between Chad's army and rebels in the country's north was revealed to be far deadlier than previously known on Monday, with the military reporting more than 300 insurgents killed while claiming calm was restored.
20 children died Tuesday after several classrooms caught fire at a school
Niger mourns 20 children killed in school blaze
Politics Apr 15
Some 20 children died Tuesday after several classrooms caught fire at a school in Niger's capital Niamey, the fire service said.
Mali has been trying to contain an Islamic extremist insurgency since 2012
4 UN peacekeepers killed in northern Mali
Politics Apr 03
Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an attack by jihadists on their camp in Aguelhok in northern Mali, the U.N. mission in Mali said Friday.
Military presence near Aksum Airport in Aksum, Ethiopia
Tigray: Eritrean troops killed more than 100 civilians, rights group
Politics Mar 25
Eritrean soldiers killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Aksum in Tigray in November last year, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a report published on Wednesday.
The notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is a historically Ugandan Islamist group present in eastern DR Congo since 1995.
DR Congo: 200 killed and 40,000 displaced by ADF militia UN says
Politics Mar 21
Nearly 200 people have been killed and 40,000 have been displaced since January following a surge of attacks by the ADF militia in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said on Friday.
Women mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean Soldiers
Eritrean troops killed hundreds in Ethiopia massacre
Politics Mar 06
Eritrean forces shot dead hundreds of children and civilians in a November massacre in neighbouring Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday.
The operation was carried out in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso
At least 11 alleged terrorists killed in northern Burkina Faso
Politics Feb 28
At least 11 alleged terrorists were killed and one was caught during an army operation from Tuesday to Wednesday in the north-east of Burkina Faso, a statement from the Burkina Faso armed forces said.