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On 14 October, on the outskirts of Nampala in the Segou region of central Mali, a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team and community health workers were violently attacked and robbed [...]

Dabanga Sudan -- The violent armed conflict that erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April 2023 continues without mercy for the [...]

Byline: Yakubu Mohammed and Popoola Ademola An analysis of the ACLED data by PREMIUM TIMES shows that the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, [...]

Authorities are yet to give details on any casualties from the attack, which put German soldiers nearby on high alert. Just one day prior, two assaults by suspected jihadis killed [...]

We write in advance of the 96th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Egypt. This submission focuses on children's rights abuses by [...]

Addis Ababa -- 'We will not keep quiet until peace comes and the suffering of our people ends.' The war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has cooled down since the [...]

Byline: Ramos Miguel With violence by armed groups spreading beyond Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado into neighboring Niassa province, President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday cautioned against panic. That comment [...]

Byline: Sam Mednick Ouagadougou -- The two groups thrashed out their differences as Burkinabe often do - sitting under the shade of a tree, exchanging plates of goat meat, yoghurt, [...]

Khartoum / El Fasher -- A fact-finding committee, headed by Sovereignty Council member Mohamed El Taayshi, arrived in the North Darfur capital of El Fasher on Saturday, to investigate the [...]

Byline: Martina Schwikowski Islamist militias in Burkina Faso raid villages and extort money from residents to fund their fight to establish a caliphate. But as violence increases, France wants to [...]

Byline: Bileh Jelan @bilehjelan & Siyanne Mekonnen @Siyaanne Despite previous eye witnesses and families of victims accounts and statements by the Oromia Regional state chapter of the ruling Prosperity Party, [...]

Byline: Michael Fitzpatrick The United Nations aid chief has told the Security Council that sexual violence is being used as a weapon of war in Ethiopia's Tigray. The US ambassador [...]

Byline: Khadar Hared In the past week alone, Somalia has been the scene of over a dozen deadly terror attacks by al-Shabab. The Islamist militant group is seen to be [...]

Byline: Christopher Mcmichael In this first in a series on the history of police violence, New Frame links the uprising after the murder of George Floyd to centuries of global [...]

Byline: Adrienne Surprenant Bangui, Central African Republic -- Interviews with rebel officials, humanitarians, and protest groups suggest the February agreement is now looking shaky and could unravel. Less than nine [...]

Habila -- Clashes between herders and farmers in Habila locality in South Kordofan on Saturday and Sunday claimed the lives of eight people. About 30 were wounded, some of them [...]

Al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamist insurgency, is diminished but still potent. One understudied source of its resilience is the support of women, active and passive, despite the movement's stringent gender ideology. Understanding [...]

Governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens against external aggression and internal violence. The first is usually the responsibility of the military. The second duty falls on the police. [...]

Byline: Philip Kleinfeld Foube/Burkina Faso -- 'The country has never had to deal with such massive displacement' Attacks by Islamist militants, military operations, and waves of inter-communal violence have left [...]

Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) carried out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April 4, 2019. Government forces killed [...]

Violence and the intensification of military operations in Northern and Central Mali have pushed more than 87,000 people to flee their homes since January 2019. Several humanitarian actors present in [...]

Byline: Issa Sikiti da Silva and Philip Kleinfeld Bankass and Bamako -- In the dust-caked town of Bankass in central Mali, Amadou Guindo waits to register for aid. Two weeks [...]

Rape of females has been an aspect of war as long as war has existed, but only in recent years has rape in war been acknowledged as a weapon. The [...]

Byline: Hassan Adebayo Sep 15, 2017 (Premium Times/All Africa Global Media) -- Suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Thursday morning, burnt a police station in Abia State [...]

Byline: Kieran Guilbert Dakar, Aug 08, 2017 (Thomson Reuters Foundation/All Africa Global Media) -- Aid operations have been disrupted about 70 times so far this year Escalating militia violence and [...]

Byline: Philip Kleinfeld Goumba, May 20, 2017 (IRIN/All Africa Global Media) -- On both sides of the rutted, 200-kilometre dirt road that runs from Bria to Bambari in Central African [...]

Jan 07, 2017 (Deutsche Welle/All Africa Global Media) -- Gunfire was heard at three military camps in Ivory Coast as former fighters asked for back pay and bonuses. The violence [...]

Jan 06, 2017 (Deutsche Welle/All Africa Global Media) -- Gunfire was heard at three military camps in Ivory Coast as former fighters asked for back pay and bonuses. The violence [...]

Washington / Paris, Feb 22, 2016 (Radio Dabanga/All Africa Global Media) -- The USA expressed its deep concern about the increased violence against civilians and the grave humanitarian situation in […]

Mar 20, 2014 (Sabahi/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed on Tuesday (March 18th) called on al-Shabaab to renounce violence and admit defeat following […]

Mar 19, 2014 (Dalsan Radio/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The National Security Council met today, chaired by His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and attended by H.E Prime […]

Feb 23, 2014 (Radio France Internationale/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The head of the French military mission in the Central African Republic has said sectarian violence has abated […]

Feb 12, 2014 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The minority Muslim population in the Central African Republic is being targeted in a relentless wave of coordinated […]

Dakar, Dec 13, 2013 (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Despite a fierce crackdown on insurgent group Boko Haram by Nigerian security forces, violence in […]

Kinshasa, DR Congo, Dec 02, 2013 (PR Newswire/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Gertler Family Foundation (GFF), in partnership with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of [...]

Tunis, Oct 19, 2013 (Tunis Afrique Presse/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The military operations resumed on Friday in Mount Tella, where a terrorist group hides after two national […]

Sep 12, 2013 (UN News Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- With millions of children unable to go back to school this year because of conflict in their countries, [...]

Beirut, Aug 09, 2013 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- At least 51 people have died in a broadening wave of apparent political assassinations in the cities [...]

Beirut, Aug 08, 2013 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- At least 51 people have died in a broadening wave of apparent political assassinations in the cities [...]

Kismayo, May 25, 2013 (Garowe Online/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The president of Somalia's Jubaland state Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) has accused the Somali Federal Government of [...]

Nairobi, May 21, 2013 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Cote d'Ivoire's government has made little progress in addressing root causes of the country's decade of politico-military [...]

Byline: Eric Reeves Apr 04, 2013 (Sudan Tribune/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A number of very recent, highly credible, ground-based reports indicate that Khartoum's regular Sudan Armed Forces [...]

Byline: Eric Reeves Apr 04, 2013 (South Sudan News Agency/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A number of very recent, highly credible, ground-based reports indicate that Khartoum's regular Sudan [...]

Geneva, Sep 08, 2009 (Catholic Information Service for Africa/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The World Council of Churches has urged its member churches 'to publicly condemn violence against [...]

Jul 16, 2009 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo should urgently investigate and prosecute senior army officials allegedly involved [...]