Central Africa

After Amazon's fires, Africa's rainforests are burning too, but for different reasons

The Congo Basin forest is commonly referred to as the "second green lung" of the planet after the Amazon.

DR Congo: 14 UN peacekeepers killed, over 53 others injured in militant attack

Rebels attacked a UN peacekeeping base in eastern Congo, killing at least 14 peacekeepers and wounding 53 others in the deadliest single assault on a UN mission

At least 50 killed in deadly clashes in Central African Republic's Bria despite ceasefire

Bodies lay in the streets and at least 35 people were wounded in fighting in a town in the Central African Republic

Boko Haram is no longer a local terror group: Goodluck Jonathan

Boko Haram is no longer a local terror group. It is clearly operating as an al Qaeda operation" in central Africa, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said while speaking at a summit hosted by French President Hollande in Paris yesterday.