Africa

The Washington Post reported Thursday that Islamic militants have been singling out Christians for execution in a remarkably honest exposé of the situation.

Boko Haram jihadis seized two towns in Nigeria’s Borno state on Wednesday, killing many people as they set houses and government buildings ablaze.

Escalating violence in an oasis town in Libya has resulted in a significant number of civilian casualties this month, killing 90 and wounding more than 200 others, the United Nations reported this week.

The White House and Treasury Department are considering a number of actions to protect American business interests in Angola, multiple senior administration officials tell Breitbart News.

Church officials in Cameroon announced Friday that two Catholic priests have been abducted at gunpoint at Ibal village in the anglophone region of the country’s Northwest.

South African Bishop Sithembele Sipuka has denounced the epidemic of violence against albinos, calling on the African church to employ all its resources to bring the practice to an end.

China’s technologies giant Huawei, the largest telecommunications company in the world, is enabling digital authoritarianism in Africa by helping dictators spy on their opposition, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday.

(AFP) — Asian and European seamen were kidnapped Thursday aboard a vessel in the Gulf of Guinea off the southern Cameroon port of Douala, a senior Cameroonian navy source said.

At least 80 Muslims who participated in the annual hajj pilgrimage in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia over the weekend died.

The decade-long Boko Haram terror campaign in Nigeria “is far from over,” the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian organization declared on Monday.

Locals in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), estimate that 5,000 people participated in a protest Thursday against mass killings by local militias seeking to cement control over natural resources in attacks significantly hindering international aid groups’ efforts to combat the Ebola virus.

Police in Uganda this week charged a musician turned Member of Parliament (MP) and political opposition leader Bobi Wine with trying “to annoy, alarm, or ridicule” the African country’s President Yoweri Museveni, BBC reported.

Africa currently has the highest prevalency of modern-day slavery, four hundred years since the transaltantic slave trade began during the 15th century.

The Trump administration on Thursday ordered the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to freeze between $2 billion and $4 billion in aid authorized by Congress during the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years.

A group of under-armed locals successfully drove away a gang of 15 heavily armed terrorists who came in the dead of night to assassinate a priest in north-central Nigeria, wrote a former U.S. State Department official Tuesday.

The government of Uganda announced Monday it has begun trial use for an experimental Ebola vaccine by Johnson & Johnson amid the second-worst Ebola outbreak on record. Uganda accepted the vaccine after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s former health minister resigned over alleged pressure to introduce it into that country’s population.

Nigeria’s This Day published an extensive, scathing report Sunday on Chinese colonialism in its economy, accusing the Communist Party of “labour casualization, tax evasion, customs duty under-payment, forgery and outright sabotage” and individual Chinese immigrants of irresponsibly impregnating young Nigerian woman and abandoning them.

The ongoing slaughter of Nigerian Christians by Muslim herders and terrorists is a powder keg waiting to explode, according to an essay Sunday by Christian persecution expert John L. Allen.

After picking up 40 migrants, the NGO Sea-Eye has challenged Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini, saying they will never return “rescued” migrants to nearby Libya.

Rep. Ilhan Omar mocked President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media by touting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her back to Africa.

Health officials in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) confirmed a fourth case of Ebola in Goma, a densely populated border city with Rwanda, on Thursday, identifying her as the wife of a gold miner who had traveled to an Ebola-infected area and returned with the virus.

The United Nations confirmed this week that the Somalia-based al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab is forcing civilians to surrender hundreds of children from their community for “indoctrination” and “recruitment” to become jihadis.

The Nigerian government insisted on Tuesday the homegrown jihadi group Boko Haram “is defeated” even as the organization continued a killing spree in its birthplace of Borno state that same day.

The number of children killed or maimed last year in 20 nations at war or in a state of conflict “reached record levels” at more than 12,000, an annual United Nations report revealed this week.

Ethiopia may have set a world record by planting 350 million trees in 12 hours on Monday as part of a plan to fight climate change.

Playing golf is a form of training that can help the armed forces tackle insecurity in Nigeria fueled by Boko Haram, the highest-ranking military officer of the African country’s army argued over the weekend.

Episodes of assassinations, violence, and looting by the Boko Haram terror group have continued virtually unchallenged for many years, said Nigerian cardinal John Onaiyekan, and the government has yet to provide any effective remedy to the problem.

The death toll from suspected Boko Haram attack on a funeral gathering in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state over the weekend reached 70 as of Monday.

The United Nations-brokered Government of National Accord (GNA) over the weekend accused forces loyal to rogue Gen. Khalifa Haftar of airstrikes against a field hospital in southern Tripoli on Saturday, killing five doctors and injuring eight other health workers.

Al-Shabaab assumed responsibility for an assassination attempt this week on an American diplomat in the Somali capital of Mogadishu that killed six and wounded six others, including the city’s mayor.