The Comoros military on Saturday regained control of Mutsamudu's old city centre on the island of Anjouan, a minister told AFP, after armed rebels staged an uprising earlier this week. The army has retaken the medina, Education Minister Mahamoud Salim Hafi, who has led the government response to the rebels, told an AFP team on the scene as sol ...

The Comoros military on Saturday started an operation to disperse armed rebels who took control of Mutsamudu's old city centre on the island of Anjouan earlier this week, a government minister said. Security forces and rebels opposed to President Azali Assoumani have fought in the narrow streets of the medina quarter in Mutsamudu since Monday, w ...

The lawyer for a missing pro-Biafran separatist leader on Saturday said he had spoken to his client, after a video and pictures emerged purporting to show him in Jerusalem. Ifeanyi Ejiofor said he had received a direct confirmation about the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu, who has not been seen in public since September last year. My client is ...

The Comoros government said Saturday that rebels on the island of Anjouan had to disarm by Monday and allow the city centre of Mutsamudu to return to normal after a week of clashes. Security forces and rebels opposed to President Azali Assoumani have fought in the narrow streets of the medina quarter in Mutsamudu, with at least three people kill ...

Izeowayi Izaza Victor has won the first edition of the BBC News Pidgin essay competition titled, ldquo;Is Africa rsquo;s youth ready for political leadership rsquo; rsquo; Izeowayi is from Rivers State and currently studies Marketing at the University of Port Harcourt. The 21-year-old is a keen writer, poet and football fan who ...