French President Emmanuel Macron has gone on a charm offensive in Africa, amid new questions about France's involvement in the so-called "war on terror" and its brutal colonial past in the continent.

Police in northwest Nigeria say unidentified gunmen killed at least 16 people in a remote village.

At least 62 members of a volunteer vigilante group in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state are killed by unidentified armed bandits.

Dozens of people burn to death on a bus in Nigeria after gunmen attack them and torch their vehicle in a northwestern state, police say.

Gunmen attack a mosque in Nigeria, killing at least 16 people, a government official says, as armed gangs continue to wreak havoc in the restive African country.

Criminal gangs have terrorized northwestern and central Nigeria for years.

The UNICEF says at least one million Nigerian children could miss school amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity.