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Boko Haram attacks on military bases were a frequent tactic as the group gained in size and strength, using the weapons and ammunition seized to capture swathes of territory in the northeast in 2013 and 2014. (Photo: AFP)

Six Nigerian troops killed in Boko Haram raid

The jihadists attacked an army position overnight Thursday in Kamuya.

20 Jan 2019 11:46 AM IST

10 killed in attack near Mali-Niger border: Govt official

10 killed in attack near Mali-Niger border: Govt official

The attack took place around 45 kilometres from Menaka

17 Jan 2019 9:38 AM IST

The coordinated assault began with an explosion that targeted three vehicles outside a bank (Photo: AP)

Al-Shabab extremists claim deadly attack on Nairobi hotel

Extremists stormed a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital on Tuesday

16 Jan 2019 12:12 PM IST

Security forces help civilians flee the scene as cars burn behind, at a hotel complex in Nairobi on Tuesday

5 killed in attack on upmarket Nairobi hotel

Al Shabaab claims gunbattle and suicide blast, first attack in 5 years.

16 Jan 2019 1:16 AM IST

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. (Photo: AP)

It's real me: Nigerian President denies claims he died, was replaced...

Buhari had spent 5 months abroad for an undisclosed illness. Many have claimed he was replaced by a Sudanese lookalike...

3 Dec 2018 2:58 PM IST

A government spokesman said it was keeping track of an event but that it could not comment further. (Representational image | AP)

81 people, mostly children, kidnapped from school in Cameroon:...

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the region where separatists are fighting to form a...

5 Nov 2018 6:54 PM IST

A picture shows police and firemen gathering at the site of Mondays suicide attack in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis. (Photo: AFP)

Woman suicide bomber blew herself, wounds 9 in Tunis: Interior...

Ambulances arrived swiftly at the scene, which was cordoned off by security forces.

29 Oct 2018 9:08 PM IST

Gigaba, who was finance minister between March 2017 and February 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Have been blackmailed over leaked sex video: South African minister

Gigaba said he had decided to make the announcement because he had learned that the video was now circulating in...

29 Oct 2018 3:03 PM IST

One of them died on the spot and two others were declared brought dead when they were taken to hospital. Others are undergoing treatment at KMC hospital. (Representational Image)

British tourist found dead with missing organs, Egypt authorities deny...

Accusing UK media of publishing 'flawed reports', Egyptian state information service (SIS) said allegations of 'organ...

22 Oct 2018 12:07 PM IST

Some had even remarked that the occurrence of landslides in deep forests during this period indicates that quarrying has nothing to do with the phenomenon. This stupidity was mouthed by quarry owners and repeated their well-wishers in Kerala Assembly. (In pic: A scene of landslide in Idukki)

Landslide kills at least 31 in eastern Uganda: Govt officials

'The landslide pushed huge boulders into a river which burst its banks and the water swept away the people,' an official...

12 Oct 2018 1:16 PM IST

$Police said that kidnappers shot into the air\ before bustling Dewji into their car.$ World

Africa's youngest billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, kidnapped in Tanzania

Dewji, 40, who heads the MeTL Group, was abducted as he entered the gym of a hotel in the city.

11 Oct 2018 4:29 PM IST

The mother and child, who have not been identified, have fully recovered and are in good health, doctors said.

HIV-positive mom donates liver to child

World's first such liver transplant took place in SA a year ago.

5 Oct 2018 2:02 AM IST