The northern Nigerian town of Baga was devastated over the weekend by a surprise raid conducted by Boko Haram insurgents apparently aimed at a major military base constructed there. ...

Falling oil prices are happy news for American car owners but disastrous news for Africa which was recently celebrating an “oil boom” around the continent. ...

Militants appear to be gaining the upper hand in West Africa’s spreading ethnic/religious fighting. This week, insurgents with Nigeria’s Boko Haram ...

A frank report cited by two former African presidents has called for the decriminalization of minor drug offenses, saying that trafficking, consumption and production is undermining development ...

War Resisters’ International, founded in 1921 by conscientious objectors to the First World War, will hold their first conference ...

As the war in Afghanistan winds down, western countries are finding new uses for their high-tech surveillance equipment and unmanned drones ...

Attempts to broker the return of the missing school girls held in a rebel camp somewhere in northern Nigeria were apparently ...

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority condemns the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian girls and joins the worldwide rallying cry to “Bring Back Our Girls!” ...