A joint military force from Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon said Sunday it had killed more than 100 Islamist insurgents, including 10 commanders, in the past few weeks, as it intensifies a ground and air offensive in the Lake Chad region.Boko Haram fighter…

BAMAKO— Mali’s army said that it had killed “a dozen terrorists” including a French-Tunisian jihadist in air strikes in the centre of the Sahel nation.The armed forces carried out two strikes on Thursday “to neutralise a dozen terrorists in the forest …

Mali’s army said Saturday that it had killed “a dozen terrorists” including a French-Tunisian jihadis in airstrikes in the center of the Sahel nation.The armed forces carried out two strikes on Thursday “to neutralize a dozen terrorists in the forest o…

A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday.The shipwreck took place Friday off the western Libyan city of Sabratha, a major launching point for the mainly …

Cameroon says it is saddened by separatist fighters’ unending attacks on government workers in its English-speaking northwest and southwest regions.Separatists have been fighting to create an independent English-speaking state in the majority French sp…

The number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease, according to the World Health Organization.In a statement on Thursday, the U.N. heal…