The former head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, should be acquitted of pimping charges due to insufficient evidence, says French prosecutor.

Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger claim to have made gains in pushing back or capturing Boko Haram militants and their supporters.

Five out of six plaintiffs in the aggravated pimping trial of former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn drop their accusations against him.

A grand jury in the US state of North Carolina indicts Craig Hicks on three counts of murder in the shootings of three young Muslim students.

Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo quits the ruling party ahead of the 28 March elections, tearing up his membership card in public.

Denmark's intelligence agency says it was warned that the gunman suspected of carrying out the Copenhagen attacks was at risk of radicalisation.

At least 14 people have been killed in an explosion suspected to have been carried out by militant Islamists in north-eastern Nigeria, a regional senator tells the BBC.

A federal judge in Texas has blocked presidential executive action on immigration that would spare as as many as five million people from deportation