The Nigerian army accompanied ground offensives with aerial bombardment of suspected Boko Haram sites in the Sambisa forest and illegal oil refineries in the Niger Delta region.
During the festival, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, timed to coincide with a religious holiday, the opposition members, were dispersed in the crowds, chanted anti-government slogans.
The US is building a base for drones in Niger.
The base will be located in the suburbs of the city of Agadez and $ 100 million are already allocated for the project.
The United Nations warns that tens of thousands of children will die in northeastern Nigeria over the next year if international donors don't rush to help them.
As a result of the collision participants of mass protests and police forces more than a hundred people died in the Congo. Protests continue for several days.
Infighting between Abubakar Shekau, ex-leader of Boko Haram, and ISIL-linked Abu Musab al-Barnawi militants continued on Sunday and led to a series of fellow militants killings in Nigeria's Borno S
In-fighting broke out between Boko Haram militants after the ISIS group announced a new leader of its Nigerian affiliate, according to reports in the country's remote Northeast.
A car bomb exploded near the presidential residence in the Somali capital in Mogadishu.
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) says some 49,000 Nigerian children could die of malnutrition in the country’s troubled northeast this year if they are not provided with humanitarian aid.