Footage of the demonstrations shows security services firing their guns and water cannons at crowds. Activists have warned of deteriorating freedoms in the long-stable West African nation.

Afghan women soldiers fear the Taliban's return to politics

Soldiers snatched ballot boxes, results in Rivers, INEC officials allege.

The Nigerian Army on Friday in Kaduna buried 13 slain soldiers and one officer who died on December 24, 2018.

Families of deceased soldiers wallowing in pain, anguish — Ekwerenmadu

The killing of 44 Soldiers: Nigerian Senate may pay surprise visits to war front.

The course of Nigeria's war against Islamist militants has turned against the government with reports that as many as 100 soldiers have been killed by an Islamic State offshoot since Sunday.

More than two million Africans, civilians and soldiers alike, were killed in World War One. In Europe and in Africa itself, thousands of Africans were forced into service for their colonial masters. The consequences are still in evidence today.

The demonstrators were calling for the release of their leader Ibrahim Zakzaky when soldiers shot at them.

More than 35 years after the Falklands war, survivors of the Argentine soldiers killed there have been able to visit their graves. Of the hundreds of soldiers who lost their lives, a significant number have only now been identified.

Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian demonstrators in Bethlehem after Hamas urged a fresh uprising against Israel.

Soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads outside Zimbabwe parliament and other key government buildings in capital Harare hours after the military seized power.