Nigeria's military raided a United Nations compound on Friday in the northeastern city at the epicentre of a conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, a UN official said.
In Zamashegu, a farming community of 1,000 people in northern Ghana, they may as well have come from outer space — four electric slot machines installed in two roadside shacks, chirping and clattering, bathing the packed-dirt walls in a pale, kaleidoscopic glow.
The leader of Senegal's main opposition group said on Wednesday it would not participate in any future elections because the parliamentary polls that delivered a large majority to the ruling coalition were a "masquerade".
A Nigerian, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, Â accused of obtaining more than 125,000 stolen taxpayer identities from across the United States has been convicted in federal court in Oregon.
Six insurgents have been killed by the army in Nigeria’s Borno state, according to army officials. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the insurgents were killed in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno in an operation meant to dislodge activities of Boko Haram in the state.
