United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday he had fired the mission chief in the Central African Republic, declaring “enough is enough” after a string of allegations of child sex abuse by peacekeepers.
Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, pronounced the battle against the notorious ISIS-linked terrorists of Boko Haram a rousing success on Tuesday, declaring that the group had been “decapitated” and would be mopped up “by the end of the year.”
Uganda’s Supreme Court decreed this week that a husband is not allowed to demand a “bride price” refund after a divorce since the practice is unconstitutional.
Less than two weeks after imposing a nationwide ban on big game hunting in response to the killing of the famous Cecil the lion, Zimbabwe has already lifted the ban, allowing hunters to continue killing exotic game.
Officials in Mali ended a 24-hour hostage situation at the Byblos Hotel in Sevare, which left 12 people dead over the weekend. Suspected radical Islamists attacked the hotel on Friday.
A boat laden with refugees sank Thursday morning thirty miles off the Libyan coast, just 15 miles from where another vessel had capsized Wednesday. In Wednesday’s incident, at least 25 drowned, while in the more recent shipwreck, all 381 passengers were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard.
A massive influx of immigrants from Muslim-populated countries in Africa and the Middle East may mean that more than half a million girls in the U.S. are in danger of female genital mutilation.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) released two Indian teachers out of the four they abducted last Wednesday in Libya. Indian Foreign Minister Sushama Swaraj tweeted about the release.
The United Nations Human Rights panel revealed in a report published this week that many women around the world still face witchcraft accusations. They are then subjected to execution, torture, and mutilation.
The government of Sierra Leone has quarantined 624 people in the past week following the death by Ebola of a man in a town that had not experienced any cases of the deadly virus in months. While the outbreak continues with little natural end in sight, however, scientists have announced a breakthrough vaccine development that could eradicate Ebola for good.
Cecil, a 13-year-old lion that was, for many Zimbabweans, the sole source of pride in an otherwise hellish dictatorship, is dead. His death at the hands of an American dentist has done what the deaths of tens of thousands of Zimbabwean humans have failed to do since Robert Mugabe’s ascendance to head of state: get Americans to care about Zimbabwe.
The Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram has killed 29 people this week after raiding two Christian villages in northern Borno State. The attacks occurred as Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is in Cameroon to meet with President Paul Biya regarding a strategy to eliminate the terror syndicate.
Human rights group are challenging President Barack Obama following his description of Ethiopia’s government as “democratically elected.”
President Obama has begun a two-day visit of Ethiopia, the first sitting United States President to visit the East African country.
President Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya inspired several women to name their children after the First Family. One woman took it a step further to keep her child more unique.
During his visit, Obama condemned Kenya’s outlawing of homosexual acts as “wrong—full stop,” comparing Kenya’s policy toward gays to the treatment of blacks in the United States prior to the civil rights movement.
As Kenya gears up for President Barack Obama’s historic speech on Sunday in its capital, Nairobi, victims of the 1998 al-Qaeda bombing of the American embassy in that city are charging “neglect” on the part of both the American and Kenyan governments, and hoping their plights are addressed by the American head of state.
A former Egyptian army officer suspected of masterminding the assassination of a top Egyptian prosecutor has released a propaganda video calling for Islamists to declare holy war on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, calling him a “new pharoah” who has overrun the mostly-Muslim country with “sorcerers” looking to change “our religion.”
Obama is being greeted by Kenya, and by Africa in general, with a heavy dose of skepticism. With time running out on his two terms, it is clear that Obama has been a disappointing U.S. president–for Africa, too.
Cairo (AFP) – At least 21 people celebrating an engagement were killed on the Nile north of Cairo late Wednesday when a cargo ship hit their chartered boat, medical and security sources said.
MONROVIA (Reuters) – The last four cases of Ebola in Liberia were discharged from a treatment clinic in the capital of Monrovia on Monday, meaning there were no more confirmed carriers of the deadly virus in the West African country.
Police are swarming Scottish airports to protect females during the peak of “cutting season,” otherwise known as female genital mutilation (FGM). The airports provide direct flights to countries where the practice still occurs.
Bellevue Hospital is currently observing an unidentified man for Ebola who recently returned from Africa and came down with a fever.
Recently elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari met with President Obama in Washington, D.C., yesterday, where the President endorsed Buhari’s plan to relocate the nation’s military leadership to the homeland of Boko Haram and crack down on the terrorist group’s violent activities.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has fired his National Security adviser, chief of defense, and the heads of every branch of the Nigerian armed forces, following a surge in Boko Haram attacks that has left more than 600 people dead since Buhari took office in May.
