Russia has rejected claims that its military instructors in the Central African Republic have been involved in killing civilians and looting homes. During a heated
The anti-terror and constitutional affairs bench of the Ethiopian Federal High Court on Monday sentenced the killer of the East African country's former army chief to life imprisonment. Ethiopia's late army chief, Seare Mekonen, was killed by his bodyguard Mesfin Tigabu on June 22, 2019,
Stefan Lofven, the Swedish prime minister, resigned on Monday, one week after he lost a vote of no confidence, leaving it up to the speaker
The United States carried out another round of air raids against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq, with the militias threatening to retaliate. In a statement on Sunday, the US military said
About 30 people were killed in Somalia on Sunday when the extremist al Shabaab group launched a deadly attack in the country's semi-autonomous state of
Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria, in a video, pledged allegiance to rivals the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) weeks after the former group's leader
Eighteen Al-Shabaab militants were executed Sunday in Galkayo town of Mudug, the Puntland State of Somalia, after being sentenced to death earlier by the court. Chairperson of Puntland State court Mohamud Abdi Mohamed said their court proceedings followed through different stages before the execution. "Puntland
About 150 death row inmates in Sri Lanka have gone on a hunger strike to demand their sentences be commuted after the island nation’s president
Northeast Nigeria's conflict with Islamist insurgencies had killed nearly 350,000 people as of the end of 2020, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on
The United States has allocated 55 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 31 priority countries as part of plans to end the pandemic. The Joe Biden administration had earlier promised to distribute 80 million doses from the US supply, with 25 million doses already allocated.