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9 January

ISWA attack on Baga military base, Nigeria

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Nigeria: More than 30,000 people flee Baga violence

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Baga, northeast Nigeria, after an increase in Boko Haram violence, the UN said

9 January

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera announced on January 9, 2019 that peace talks between the government and armed groups would be held later in the month

Staff Writer With AFP

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Central African government to meet armed groups in Khartoum for peace talks

The African Union said that long-awaited peace talks between the Central African Republic and militia groups would take place in Khartoum

8 January

Fergus Kelly

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African Union and UN relaunch Central African Republic peace talks

Senior African Union and the United Nations officials arrived in the Central African Republic in a bid to revive a peace process in the troubled country

8 January

Staff Writer With AFP

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Boko Haram factions attack Sajeri and Auno as Buhari acknowledges setbacks

At least three people were killed in two attacks by both factions of Boko Haram as Nigeria's president acknowledged setbacks in the fight against the nine-year insurgency.

8 January

Staff Writer With AFP

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Armed men kill 8 civilians in eastern DR Congo’s Beni region

At least eight civilians including relatives of soldiers were killed in an overnight incursion by armed men in the volatile eastern DR Congo, the army said

7 January

Fergus Kelly

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Central African Republic: More than 12,000 displaced to ‘roads and forests’ after Bakouma violence

The majority of the population of Bakouma – more than 12,000 people – have been displaced by FPRC violence in southeastern Central African Republic, the UN said

4 January

Staff Writer With AFP

Nigeria soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack on convoy near Banki, close to Cameroon border

At least two Nigerian soldiers were killed when Boko Haram fighters ambushed a convoy near Banki, close to the border with Cameroon

4 January

Staff Writer With AFP

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Death toll in Burkina Faso ethnic clashes rises to 46

Forty-six people were killed in central-northern Burkina Faso this week when a suspected jihadist attack was followed by ethnic clashes, the government said

4 January

Weapons from a Tunisian police raid on Jund al-Khalifa

Andrew Kennedy

Two militants killed and a police officer injured during raid in Tunisia

Two suspected militants were killed in the Sidi Bouzid region of Tunisia when they detonated an explosive device during a counter-terrorism operation targeting a group linked to ISIS

3 January