At least 50 people are reported killed in north-eastern Nigeria in a gun and bomb attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.

Rights group Amnesty says satellite images show disturbed earth at sites in the Buringa area on the edge of the capital Bujumbura that are consistent with witness reports.

At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok. The blasts happened at

Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu.

A carer for a woman who died of Ebola in Sierra Leone has now been infected with the virus, heightening fears of a fresh flare-up just days after West Africa was declared officially free of the disease.

Nearly 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa last year, officials said yesterday, a slight decrease on 2014, but another year of carnage fuelled by

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of human warfare to be scientifically dated, at a site in northern Kenya. The 10,000-year-old

Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base and entered a nearby town close to the border with Kenya yesterday, saying they had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in an African Union force supporting the government during the assault.

Sierra Leone officials confirm a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.

A suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers at a mosque in northern Cameroon yesterday, security officials said, in an area regularly targeted by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab releases a propaganda video featuring footage of the US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump

The body of a man was recovered from the Sugandha River in Jhalakathi Sadar upazila yesterday morning, said Jashim Uddin, sub-

Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children's agency reported yesterday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria.

Investigators in Mali were yesterday hunting at least three people suspected of links to the jihadist siege at a luxury hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead.

Gun-toting jihadists took more than 100 people hostage for around nine hours at a top hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, in an attack claimed by an al-Qaeda affiliate that left at least 27 people dead.

At least 27 people were reported dead yesterday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many of them foreigners, trapped in the building.

An African jihadist group affiliated with al-Qaeda claims responsibility for an attack on a luxury hotel packed with foreigners in the Malian capital Bamako.

The High Court rejects a writ petition challenging the legality of holding offices of minister and lawmaker by Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya after the Supreme Court scrapped his acquittal in a corruption case.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return home from London on Saturday.