Adam Nossiter
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 06:37
The streets of this capital city’s center are nearly empty. A few citizens slowly walk the wide boulevards, outnumbered by French troops patrolling after recent deadly violence. The battered buildings remain, but much of the city’s population has disappeared.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 10:00
The cash was handed over in large sacks containing $15 million in $100 bills, bags so heavy that the stoop-shouldered civil servant needed help carrying them.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 11:59
The kidnappers of a French priest seized in northern Cameroon shouted for joy and fired celebratory shots in the air, one of his church superiors there said Friday, but only after crossing the border into Nigeria, in a region rife with members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 09:08
The protesters gathered in front of the low-slung police station, yelling “No to Slavery” and “Freedom.” They had come from across the country to demand the arrest of a family accused of holding a slave since childhood, but they elicited little more than dispassionate stares from the police officers sitting silently before them. The subprefect of the district went to take a nap in the afternoon heat.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:34
The men from Boko Haram came tearing through this rural town, setting fire to houses, looting, shooting and yelling, “God is great!” residents and officials said. The gunmen shot motorists point-blank on the road, dragged young men out of homes for execution and ordered citizens to lie down for a fatal bullet.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 07:31
Charles Blé Goudé, a crucial ally of Laurent Gbagbo, the Ivory Coast strongman indicted on charges of crimes against humanity, is being sought on similar charges, the International Criminal Court said Tuesday.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:20
Dozens of gunmen attacked an agricultural college in northeastern Nigeria late Saturday and early Sunday, killing more than 40 students, local officials said. The attackers were thought to belong to the extremist group Boko Haram.
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 10:14
Dozens of gunmen attacked an agricultural college in northeastern Nigeria late Saturday and early Sunday, killing more than 40 students, local officials said. The attackers were thought to belong to the extremist group Boko Haram.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:52
A bloody mall siege in Kenya, mass hostage-taking in Algeria, brazen attacks on government facilities in Niger, routine killings of civilians in Nigeria, an aggressive military push toward the capital in Mali: have Islamist militants found their chosen soft spots on the African continent?
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 07:45
Mali’s greatest enemy now that it has elected a new president may not be the one that drew the alarmed attention of the West — Muslim extremists and their allies in the north — but an older one that officials, experts and activists say laid the groundwork for the country’s recent implosion.