Boko Haram announced the terrorist group will target polling units during the Nigerian elections on February 14. Despite the threat, the National Association of Istekiri Graduates (NAIG) said postponing the elections would be “disastrous.”
The Boko Haram crisis in northern Nigeria continues to rage. On Wednesday, Boko Haram staged a major counter-attack against Cameroon– one of the nations leading an African Union coalition against the terrorist group– launching a bloody rampage through the border town of Fotokol that killed at least 91 villages and wounded over 500, according to the Associated Press.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea rose last week for the first time in several weeks.
After West Africans suffered from nearly 22,000 infections and 9,000 casualties, physicians began large-scale human testing of two potential Ebola vaccines on Monday.
Nigerian troops repelled an assault by the Boko Haram jihadist group on the key city of Maiduguri, Agence-France Presse (AFP) reports.
The absence of strong Western leadership against the Boko Haram terror state has created an opportunity Iran seems ready to exploit.
EMBO Molecular Medicine released a study that claims insectivorous free-tailed bats sparked the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
In Papua New Guinea, four women have been accused by other villagers of practicing black magic and may face an excruciating death, along with their thirteen children and grandchildren.
