Armed conflicts and attacks

More than 35 ISWAP fighters are killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air Force during an attempted ground assault on troops near the Cameroon–Nigeria border in Kumshe, Borno State, Nigeria. (France 24) (ABC News)

• https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250823-nigerian-airforce-kills-at-least-35-jihadists-near-border-with-cameroon
• https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerias-military-airstrikes-killed-35-islamic-militants-borno-124922385

Law and crime

Indian police arrest a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundreds of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered from 1995 to 2014 at the Dharmasthala Temple in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, India. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm2z9zjgx7o