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The military juntas ruling the nations of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso issued a joint statement on Sunday announcing their exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

South Africa’s legal team ignored Netanyahu’s actual quote and cited a passage in the Book of Samuel that was used by the Nazis to justify the genocide of Jews.

Major South African banks are providing funding for the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, according to an investigative report Wednesday in the Jerusalem Post that also names a former Muslim community leader as a key figure in the financing operation.

Reports began surfacing on Tuesday out of Mangu, Plateau state, Nigeria, of mass mob attacks on “those perceived to be Christians” and the burning down of church buildings.

Christians around the world found themselves “easy targets” for both destabilizing terrorist groups and insecure dictators, the head of a global Christian aid organization told Breitbart News this weekend.

Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his associates face charges of murder, torture, and terrorism in Kenya.

Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), one of South Africa’s larger opposition parties, has vowed that he will send weapons to the Hamas terrorist organization if his party forms part of his country’s next governing coalition.

South Africa has suspended David Teeger, the Jewish captain of the country’s under-19 cricket team, for the duration of the World Cup because of remarks he made last year supporting Israel against the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

Republicans should refuse to reauthorize the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers preferential trade to several African countries, due to South Africa’s behavior in siding with murderous regimes and terrorists against the West.

One of the crazier claims in South Africa’s so-called “indictment” against Israel for “genocide” at the International Criminal Court (ICJ) Thursday was that Israel is “trying to prevent Palestinian births” because of the impact of the war on pregnant women.

South Africa recently declared that the incendiary song “Kill the Boer” is not hate speech or genocidal, but told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on Thursday that phrases like “destroy Hamas” proved Israel’s “genocidal intent” in Gaza.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) reacted Wednesday to South Africa’s accusations of “genocide” against Israel by accusing the African nation of hypocrisy: “Maybe you ought to sit this one out!”

South Africa’s case against Israel on Thursday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague was a classic display of antisemitism, in that it portrayed Jewish victims of genocide as the aggressors — a familiar pattern from Babylon to the Nazis.

South African lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi misquoted the Bible on Thursday in accusing Israel of “genocide” against Palestinians at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, as it tried to turn the victim of Hamas’s a terror attack into the aggressor.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) immediately criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken for once again leaving Nigeria off the State Department’s annual list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious oppression. 

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, said Fulani Islamists come from “the deepest pit of hell” following the massacre of more than 200 Christians over the Christmas holidays.

Threats to shipping continued to escalate on Thursday, as an explosive-packed drone boat launched by the Houthi terrorists of Yemen exploded in the Red Sea, while a group of as-yet unidentified but possibly Somali pirates stormed a Liberian-flagged merchant ship near the coast of Somalia.

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who became a global star competing at his sport’s highest level while running on carbon-fiber blades, was released from prison on Friday after serving nearly nine years for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp.

The anti-American BRICS economic and security coalition will welcome five new members on January 1: a country in a severe economic crisis, another openly defaulting on its sovereign debt, and two countries embroiled in a proxy war against each other.

Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga Diocese in Malawi says that he will “reject” and ignore the Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples.

Pope Francis has met with stiff opposition from black Christian leaders after approving the blessing of gay couples.

Fulani Muslims carried out coordinated attacks on Christians over Christmas in 26 villages of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, leaving some 170 dead.

Local authorities in Plateau state, Nigeria, updated the death toll of a presumed jihadist massacre of Christians on Christmas Eve to 195.

The effort by shipping companies to reroute traffic from the Red Sea around the Cape of Good Hope, thus avoiding drone and missile attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen, is running into major logistical hurdles because African ports are not ready to accommodate the surge of massive container ships and tankers.

Ethiopia on Tuesday became the third African nation in three years to default on its sovereign debt, following Zambia and Ghana.

The governor of Plateau, Nigeria, denounced the long-term occupation of at least 64 Christian communities in his state.

At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, survivors and officials said Tuesday.

Christians in Nigeria will celebrate Christmas this year facing a relentless onslaught of jihadist terrorism seeking to eliminate them from the country, experts told Breitbart News, with little support from their government.

France completed the withdrawal of its troops on Friday after they were asked to leave Niger by the country’s military junta.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power in a 2013 coup and won his first election in 2014, was “re-elected” for a third six-year term on Monday. Election officials said the 66.8-percent turnout was “the highest in the history of Egypt,” and Sisi “won” with 89.6 percent of the vote.

A French court is expected to rule Tuesday on charges against a Rwandan doctor for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country.

“To Hamas, Black Lives Don’t Matter. Jewish Lives Don’t Matter. Christian, Muslim, Druze, Hindu, and Buddist [sic] Lives Don’t Matter. Palestinian Lives Certainly Don’t Matter. For Hamas, Life Itself Doesn’t Matter.”

Joshua Mollel, 21, a farm worker from Tanzania who arrived in Israel in September to live at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, was confirmed dead on Wednesday — murdered in captivity by Hamas, according to the Israeli government.

The country of Tunisia has expressed outrage over the fact that Denzel Washington has been cast as Hannibal the Conquerer.

South Africa has seen public Hanukkah celebrations canceled as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has entertained leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization on a solidarity visit to the country.

The Nigerian Army conducted a “mistaken” drone strike on a village during a Muslim festival on Sunday, killing over 90 people.