(VOVWORLD) - The European Union, the United Nations, and the African Union on Thursday agreed to an emergency plan to dismantle people-smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, in an effort...
(VOVWORLD) - European Union members have vowed to take in 34,400 refugees directly from North Africa and the Middle East, particularly from Libya and Niger
(VOVWORLD) - At least 15 people were killed and 43 wounded when suicide bombers, said to be Boko Haram, attacked an aid distribution point in northeast Nigeria on Monday
(VOVWORLD) - Rescue teams have saved a thousand African migrants abandoned by people smugglers in the Niger desert in recent months, the UN's International Office of Migration (IOM) reported Wednesday
(VOVWORLD) - At least 31 fishermen have been killed by Boko Haram jihadists in two separate attacks on islands in Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria
(VOVWORLD) -The so-called "G5 Sahel" countries—Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger—have pledged to set up a joint force to combat the wave of Islamist bombings, shootings...
(VOVWORLD) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to consolidate Western backing for a regional anti-jihadist force, with France urging greater support for the Sahel region amid...
(VOVworld) - The African Union on Tuesday announced a new initiative aimed at fostering political dialogues between opposing parties in Libya to resolve the 5-year crisis there
(VOVworld) - Security forces in Niger have killed 12 gunmen of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram who launched an attack in the southeastern region of Bosso close to the border...
(VOVworld) - On Tuesday German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault visited Niger, one of the main countries of transit for African migrants trying to...
(VOVworld) – At least 32 people are dead and some 80 people are injured after an explosion in the Nigerian city of Yola. The blast occurred at a fruit and vegetable...
(VOVworld) – At least 32 people are dead and some 80 people are injured after an explosion in the Nigerian city of Yola. The blast occurred at a fruit and vegetable...
(VOVworld) – At least 47 were killed and 52 injured in a bomb blast on Tuesday at a market in the town of Sabon Gari in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of...
(VOVworld) - The Nigerian army freed 178 people held by Boko Haram militants during a regional offensive near Aulari about 70km south of Maiduguri, the biggest town in northeast Nigeria.a
(VOVworld) - Nigeria has named Major General Iliya Abbah to lead a new multinational task force to fight Boko Haram Islamists
(VOVworld) – 16 people were killed and 80 others injured in a suicide bomb attack that took place Saturday in the Republic of Chad’s capital N’Djamena
(VOVworld) - Boko Haram militants attacked two villages in southern Niger's Diffa region overnight, killing at least 30 civilians, two security sources said on Thursday
(VOVworld) – At least 24 people were killed and dozens wounded in the latest attack by Islamist Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state
(VOVworld) – Leaders of African nations will meet in Equatorial Guinea this Wednesday to seek a common strategy to tackle threats from the Boko Haram extremist Islamic group
(VOVworld) - Three bombings killed at least 47 people in northeast Nigeria's largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday