Fighting between Nigeria's military and Boko Haram extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said April 21, AP reported.
The French family kidnapped by Boko Haram in Cameroon in February has been released and is in the hands of Cameroonian officials, Cameroonian President Paul Biya said April 19, Al Jazeera reported.
At least five people were shot and killed by gunmen in a restaurant in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa on April 18, Reuters reported, citing witnesses and local media reports.
A remote-detonated bomb exploded near the central police station in the Somali town of Beledweyne, a Somali law enforcement official said April 16, Shabelle reported.