On Wednesday, Madagascar will vote in a presidential election that sees 35 candidates competing with the current President Hery Rajaonarimampianina. This number...
On Sunday night, 78 students and their principal were abducted from a Presbyterian school in Nkwen, near Bamenda in northwest Cameroon. The students are aged be...
On Tuesday morning, gunmen shot at the car driven by American missionary Charles Wesco, fatally injuring him. He died shortly afterwards in a nearby hospital ru...
On Saturday, pirates boarded the Liberian flagged MV Pomerania Sky off the coast of Nigeria and abducted 11 crew members.
Reporting suggests that eight of th...
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the US State Department have both warned about the likelihood of terror attacks and abductions in Niger. Plea...
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has updated travel advice for Burkina Faso, warning against travel to regions bordering Mali and Niger. Terrorist group...
Authorities in Nigeria have confirmed the death of Hauwa Liman, a 24-year old midwife who was abducted along with two colleagues by militants in March.
Liman...
The US Embassy in Bamako, Mali, has restricted staff travel and issued a warning to travellers following a series of fatal armed robbery on the road between Sib...
On Thursday morning, billionaire Mohammed Dewji was abducted by masked gunmen as he entered the Colosseum Hotel and Fitness Club in Oyster Bay, Dar es Salaam, f...
On Saturday 13th October, local elections will take place in Côte d'Ivoire. Rallies and campaigns have been running for the last couple of weeks and will end on...
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office recently updated the travel advice for Burkina Faso, following the release of an alleged terrorist video and a series o...
On Saturday morning, pirates boarded the MV Glarus off the coast of Nigeria, destroyed most of the communication equipment and kidnapped 12 of the 19 crew membe...
Authorities have confirmed that Italian priest Father Pier Luigi Maccalli was abducted from Bomanga, in the southern Makalondi district, on Monday evening. Some...
On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that Boko Haram has killed aid worker Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa. She was abducted i...
Back in February we reported on an attack on a group BBC journalists who were filming a documentary in Malawi. The reporters and their team were in a remote vil...
The National Hurricane Center has issued an advisory for Tropical Cyclone Six, which is expected to reach the Cape Verde islands this evening.
A Tropical Sto...
Several authorities have issued a warning due to planned demonstrations in Bamako on Saturday. The marchers will be protesting against perceived corruption in t...
On Friday, the Constitutional Court in Harare is expected to give its ruling in the legal challenge to Zimbabwe's recent election results. As with earlier this ...
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On Wednesday, a hearing will happen at the Constitutional Court in Harare, where the court will hear a challenge to Zimbabwe's recent election results. Several ...
While protests are banned in Togo, political tensions remain and demonstration can occur without much warning. If you are headed to Togo, make an effort to rema...
We reported last week that the US Embassy in Lilongwe put temporary travel restrictions on embassy staff travel to Mulanje, in southern Malawi, due to ongoing r...
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