Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack on Nigerian village
Sept 08, 2025, Ruth Comerford, BBC News
The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno State, local officials say.
On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers.
The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30 militants in strikes after receiving reports of the raid on the village, where residents had recently returned following years of displacement.
The attack comes amid a resurgence in jihadist activity in Nigeria's north-east, with Boko Haram fights and rivals, the West African branch of the Islamic State group, stepping up attacks. ....
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rvxdw52vdo
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Sudan paramilitaries accused of crimes against humanity over siege of key city
Sep 07, 2025
Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent, BBC News and
Cecilia Macaulay, BBC News
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say.
The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of "murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and persecution on ethnic, gender and political grounds".
It also cited broader evidence of alleged war crimes by both the RSF and the regular army, however both sides have previously denied any wrongdoing in the country's ongoing civil war.
The UN report said the two groups targeted civilians in numerous ways and as deliberate strategies. ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czewgl1171lo
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