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Boko Haram crisis: Chadian President calls on militants' leader to surrender
Chad's president Idriss Deby has called on the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency to give himself up or face the consequences. Chadian troops seized the Nigerian town of…
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Dozens killed in Boko Haram raids
Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents harried by a joint military offensive by regional forces slaughter scores of villagers in retaliation. Also, talks between South Sudan's government…
SOUTH SUDAN
Gunmen abduct at least 89 boys in South Sudan, UN says
Gunmen in war-ravaged South Sudan have abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in oil-rich Upper Nile State, the United Nations said on Saturday.
Eye on Africa
Boko Haram Crisis: Chadian troops push deeper into Nigeria
Boko haram training camps around the Sambisa forest were bombed by army warplanes on Thursday. The Nigerian air force claims that the extremists suffered heavy casualties. Hopes…
SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan postpones elections, extends president's term
South Sudan's cabinet on Friday postponed elections and extended President Salva Kiir's powers for two years, the information minister said, apparently sinking a peace agreement…
Eye on Africa
South Sudan criss: Bentiu shelled by rebels
South Sudanese rebels are accused of having attacked government positions in two states, the unrest undermines a ceasefire signed last week. Niger declares a state of emergency…
Eye on Africa
South Sudan: Warring factions sign another peace deal
Warring factions in South Sudan sign another ceasefire agreement. Our correspondent tells us observers are cautiously optimistic that this time the deal may deliver an end to 15…
SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan president and rebel leader sign ceasefire deal
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed another ceasefire deal Monday in their latest effort to end 15 months of deadly fighting in a civil war…
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Hunt for Joseph Kony and LRA militants continues
The Lord's Resistance Army is a rebel group infamous for its brutality. Driven out of Uganda nearly a decade ago, LRA militants are now scattered across the Democratic Republic…
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Famine in South Sudan: 4 million struggling to find enough to eat
Algerian forces keep up the hunt for the militant group responsible for the brutal beheading of French hiker Hervé Gourdel. Nigerian police and parents of schoolgirls abducted by…
SOUTH SUDAN
Rebels 'shoot down' UN helicopter in South Sudan
A South Sudanese rebel commander who warned the United Nations not to fly over his territory shot down a UN helicopter Tuesday, charged a spokesman for a state governor.
THE INTERVIEW
Guillaume Foliot, Deputy Director, World Food Programme in Burma
To mark World Humanitarian Day, the deputy director of the World Food Programme in Burma, Guillaume Foliot, analyses the action taken by this UN agency. South Sudan, Syria, Iraq…
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