Tag: soldiers

More than 200 Malian troops reached the northern city Kidal on Thursday, the army said, the military’s first permanent deployment there since being chased...

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 soldiers and wounded six in an attack on an army post in west Niger near the Mali border, government...

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...

The Burkina Faso military launched an investigation after a rights group accused the army of carrying out executions during a recent operation in which...

Unidentified attackers torched three passenger vehicles in southern Rwanda on Saturday, killing two and injuring eight, the Ministry of Defence said, adding the military...

Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed by a blast just outside Mogadishu, militants and an army official said. Islamist group...

Thousands of child soldiers dragged into South Sudan's civil war are unlikely to be freed soon because aid agencies lack funds to...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said soldiers who marched on his palace last week had "nefarious aims" to stop reforms and defended...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said soldiers who marched to his palace last week had "nefarious aims" and wanted to abort the...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reached an agreement with several hundred soldiers who marched on his office to demand pay rises and...

In what appears to be yet another lengthy legal tussle, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) and the Department of Defence...

A South Sudanese military court sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a...

Soldiers involved in assaulting Ugandan lawmakers and civilians over their alleged role in the stoning of a presidential convoy were arrested, the...

Five Kenyan soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when their vehicle ran over a homemade bomb in northern Kenya, the military said....

Nigerian troops staging a protest at the airport in Maiduguri shot into the air for around four hours, soldiers and local people...

Cameroon arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country's far north where its army is...

A Democratic Alliance (DA) march on Nyanga police station this week was yet another call for soldiers to be deployed in the...

About 20 Nigerian soldiers are missing after a clash with Boko Haram militants in the north-east, security sources said, denying reports some...

A suicide car bomb explosion at a military base in Somalia injured seven soldiers a military official said with Islamist group al...

Islamist militant group al Shabaab killed nine Kenyan soldiers in Somalia, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The president's office offered no other details...