Zuma's office announced that he has ordered military forces to assist in controlling miner unrest.

The Yida refugee camp has seen its ranks swell from 17,000 earlier this year to around 65,000 today.

The A.U. force, which was announced early this year, had failed to start earlier because of lack of equipment and troops.

Officials say two Ivorians and one Ghanaian possessing AK-47 rifles were arrested in the town of Cape Coast.

Reports say insurgents have started to their last remaining coastal stronghold in the face of advancing allied African troops.

The sect in question, Boko Haram, is waging a bloody guerrilla fight against Nigeria's weak central government.

Soldiers manning a checkpoint in northern Nigeria shot to death two ranking members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for hundreds of killings this year alone, a military official said Monday.

Bare-chested militia men armed with batons, clubs , cutlasses and hoes blocked the path of civil rights groups and opposition political parties allies known as 'Let's Save Togo'.

The president of the West African bloc of nations says it "can no longer hesitate" to combat terrorism and criminality in northern Mali.