Upwards of 50 people were killed in four separate bombings in Maiduguri, a northern regional Nigerian capital, orchestrated by ISIS-affiliated terror group Boko Haram just hours after leader Abubakar Shekau released a new menacing audio message.
The discovery of an allegedly new human ancestor in South Africa has prompted anti-apartheid activists to condemn those quick to make racial jokes about Homo Naledi, using the new fossil to compare black people to apes.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and other authorities are considering offering Boko Haram prisoners amnesty in exchange for the more than 200 Chibok girls the radical Islamic group kidnapped 16 months ago.
Dictator Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe announced this week that his government is “seriously” considering castration as a punishment for rapists, particularly those who rape minors.
700 people in northern Sierra Leone have been quarantined, as the country, recently celebrating the discharge from the hospital of their last Ebola patient, diagnosed a 16-year-old girl with the disease.
The Nigerian military claims “scores” of Boko Haram jihadists are surrendering to authorities, following targeted attacks on their food and fuel supplies in the dense Sambisa Forest of northern Nigeria.
A woman freed from ISIS-affiliated terror group Boko Haram told authorities the militants forced schoolgirls kidnapped from the town of Chibok, Borno, in April 2014 to fight for the radical Islamic group. Her testimony mirrors those of others who told authorities the terrorists brainwashed the young girls to join the group.
The United States Embassy in Chad, in response to a “credible threat” from the terrorist group Boko Haram, plans to keep its doors closed from Tuesday through Friday, September 11, Fox News has learned from a military source.
The World Health Organization is warning that the time frame in which male Ebola survivors can spread the virus through their semen may be longer than previously anticipated, keeping an outbreak that began in February 2014 alive as those who are considered free of the disease engage in sexual activity.
A Supreme Court decision allowing employers to fire workers with only three months’ notice has led to a boom in the witch doctor industry as the nation’s unemployed turn to any means possible to help land themselves a new job.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told BBC Hausa in an extensive interview that he believes most of the girls Boko Haram kidnapped from Chibok village in April 2014 are alive, but have been dispersed and married off to Muslims.
The Nigerian military announced Thursday that it had reviewed 5,000 cases of dishonorably discharged soldiers and chosen to reinstate more than 3,000 of them and that they are fit for the battle against ISIS-affiliated group Boko Haram.
The Egyptian Religious Endowments Ministry suspended Sheikh Mahmoud Maghazi after he allegedly said, “Prayer is better than Facebook,” during a traditional Islamic prayer. The original line says, “Prayer is better than sleep.”
Two days ago, Taylor Swift released a new video for her song Wildest Dreams. It’s been viewed upwards of 15 million times.
The Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has a small, but very real presence in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, authorities asserted this week. According to Nigeria’s federal intelligence agency, up to 12 people suspected of being members of Boko Haram have been arrested in the city.
Art is popular with children psychologists, since children do not have to speak about violence they witnessed and endured. Psychologists are using this treatment with Boko Haram’s child victims.
The government of Sierra Leone received a mere six-day respite from fighting Ebola, as a new case announced today resets the countdown clock to declaring the nation Ebola-free. The body of a 67-year-old woman in remote Kambia district has tested positive for the virus.
A former Green Party councillor who was exposed as having an unexpected hobby – trophy hunting – has rebuffed his critics, defending the sport and robustly backing Walter Palmer, the man who shot Cecil the lion. For a party that claims to represent
Ethiopia established its own space program with two enormous telescopes on top of Mount Entoto, which reaches 10,500 feet high. It is the first such program in East Africa, but Ethiopia is one of the world’s poorest countries.
That figure only accounts for those who have been apprehended by Panamanian authorities. When apprehended by Panamanian border agents, the immigrants are not deported. They are allowed to pass through instead. The illegals spend no longer than a week in Panama.
A video of unknown origin has surfaced, apparently showing guards in Tripoli, Libya, beating and berating Saadi Gaddafi, one of the many sons of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Saadi Gaddafi is being tried for the killing of a football player.
An advocacy group in Washington, D.C. is working to raise funds to keep ten Boko Haram escapees in American schools, with two accepted to four-year universities but lacking resources and family to keep them going.
A Sudanese court sentenced a 19-year-old woman to 20 lashes and a fine for her alleged inappropriate outfit at church and court.
Nigerians in northern Yobe state are decrying a Boko Haram attack that resulted in 160 people–including dozens of children–drowning as they fled the terrorist group. But the Nigerian military is calling the reports “unsubstantiated” and denying the attack occurred at all.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari gave his new military leaders a three-month time frame for eradicating the ISIS-linked terror group Boko Haram during their inauguration this week, as the group expands its murderous activity to Cameroon, Niger, and Chad.
