Algeria is to send troops to Niger in its first foreign deployment since sending forces to Egypt during the Arab-Israeli war in 1973. The deployment follows a visit to Algiers by Niger’s defence minister, as the country seeks support against…

More than 60 people have been killed in a series of attacks on Christians in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, according to the country’s Orthodox Church. One resident, whose 75-year-old father was killed, described it as an ambush. “We were completely unprepared…