West Africa: Focusing on Peace By Peaceful Means For Cameroon’s Crises

Welcome to allAfrica’s Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I am Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica and today our focus is Cameroon. The West African country has an escalating humanitarian crisis and is plagued by two violent conflicts.

As East African terrorism moves West, the DRC is in the spotlight

A recent raid on a terrorist cell in Sudan’s capital Khartoum with suspected links to ISIS (also referred to as Daesh) is throwing once again a limelight on East Africa’s persistent problem with terrorism and the high price in blood that needs to be paid in the fight against it

Nigeria responds as banditry overwhelms states, causes hardship

“The past 18 months have been some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria,” President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday.