A drop in the levels of rainfall around Lake Chad in Cameroon has caused waterways to dry up and worsened the conflict between farmers and herders over scarce resources.Gadaf Mahamat is busy rebuilding his property, which was torched during a recent cl…

The U.N.’s refugee agency (UNHCR) says the number of Cameroonians fleeing communal violence in the north of the country to neighboring Chad has reached 85,000. Cameroon has dispatched a delegation to Chad to convince those who fled the fighting over wa…

A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained in Ethiopia, according to police and the country’s media regulator.Federal police accused the journalists in a statement late on Wednesda…

The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution to establish an International Commission of Human Rights Experts to investigate allegations of abuses committed by all warring parties in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict.The resolution pa…

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 followed the president’s assurance, at the openi…

Moroccan security forces with U.S. support have foiled a suspected bomb plot by the so-called Islamic State group and arrested an alleged supporter of the outlawed organization, counterterror police said Friday.”This arrest is the culmination of close …

Pro-government forces in Ethiopia are responsible for a new wave of violence in the country’s northern Tigray region involving “mass detentions, killings and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans,” two human rights groups said Thursday.Human Rights Wat…

Terrorist groups remained “a persistent and pervasive threat worldwide” through last year, the U.S. State Department concluded in a new assessment on Thursday.“The United States and its partners made significant major strides against terrorist organiza…