Security

A Cameroonian court handed life sentences to 10 separatist leaders after finding them guilty of charges including terrorism in their fight to break away...

Gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in Burkina Faso, the deadliest yet in the West African nation’s fight against...

Zimbabwe police deployed in force to block a street protest for the third time in five days, with the main opposition party seeing hopes...

Egyptian security forces killed 11 suspected militants in a gun battle during a raid on their hideout in Al-Arish, capital of North Sinai province,...

The single largest internal deployment of the national defence force will, for the foreseeable future, continue to be the border protection tasking under the...

Zimbabwe police deployed in force in Gweru, witnesses said, as authorities sought to keep a lid on dissent after banning a third anti-government protest...

Kismayo airport in southern Somalia refused to allow an Ethiopian aircraft to land, a witness said, amid heightened tensions between the federal government and...

Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso, the army said....

Congolese authorities confirmed a new case of Ebola in the remote, militia-controlled province Walikale, hundreds of kilometres away from previous cases near the border...

Ousted Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court at the start of...