On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Atlantic Council Distinguished Fellow J. Peter Pham, who served as United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, said that there are issues with coordinating strikes with Nigeria’s government because “certain parts of the
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Carl Higbie Frontline,” Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) praised the strikes in Nigeria over Christmas but said that it is crucial for the U.S. “to work with Nigerian government officials to get them to focus
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Early Start,” Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar argued that the Nigerian government has the will to fight terrorism but “We may have institutional challenges, partly due to, for instance, the Leahy law that stopped the
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) stated that the strikes in Nigeria are the administration “making sure they sow chaos and distraction.” Co-host Kate Bolduan asked, “[T]he Foreign Minister of Nigeria was on this morning
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said that she wishes that instead of undertaking strikes, the Trump administration focused on things like regaining “our role again as a leader in providing USAID” in parts of
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Early Start,” Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar stated that the American strikes in the country on Christmas were “coordinated with the U.S.,” and the fight in the area is “not about religion. It is about
Cuban slave doctors presently in Luanda, Angola denounced that they spent Christmas without receiving pay for their services from the Cuban communist regime, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Thursday.
Both Syria and Nigeria were struck by deadly mosque bombings this week, killing and injuring dozens of people. Both attacks were timed to coincide with prayer services to inflict maximum carnage.
President Donald Trump stated that, acting as Commander in Chief, he directed the United States to carry out a “powerful and deadly strike” in northwest Nigeria against ISIS terrorists, whom he identified as responsible for targeting and killing innocent Christians at historically severe levels.
Nigerian activists and leaders at the front lines of the jihadist mass killings in the country denounced attempts to erase the religious aspect of the persecution in the country during a recent online press briefing alongside the human rights organization Open Doors, noting the overwhelming evidence that the killers are seeking to eliminate Christianity entirely.
Nigerians speaking to the newspaper Daily Trust expressed extreme hesitation in traveling out of the capital city of Abuja to spend Christmas this week with family, citing the “insecurity” crisis caused by a growing wave of systematic attacks by jihadists against Christian communities nationwide.
WASHINGTON — The foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) told Breitbart News exclusively that her country’s government is “very enthusiastic” about the fact that in their view President Donald Trump “fully deserves” to win the Nobel Peace Prize this coming year.
Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.
A Colombian mercenary recruitment network for the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) insurgent militia is using U.K. registered firms, an investigation conducted by the Guardian revealed on Friday. RSF is a paramilitary group responsible for a litany of heinous actions
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) urged Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday to use the federal government to protect worshippers in the face of expected increased jihadist attacks during the Christmas season.
South African immigration police on Tuesday raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg and arrested seven Kenyans who were allegedly working there illegally, along with two U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) officers.
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the Nigerian Army of opening fire on protesters and killing nine women.
Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel.
The Interior Ministry of Benin announced on Sunday that an attempted military coup against President Patrice Talon had been thwarted.
The wife and children of a Somalian ISIS leader are reportedly living in taxpayer funded accommodation in Britain.
A mass shooting at a bar left at least 11 people, including three children, dead in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday.
The Catholic Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said on Wednesday that a priest named Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ezema was kidnapped from his church Tuesday night.
The State Department said on Thursday that America is “comprehensively reviewing our relationship with the Government of Tanzania” due to concerns over the “ongoing repression of religious freedom and free speech.”
A top official in Nigeria condemned calls from prominent American and other human rights figures for the country to abolish the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law, on citizens regardless of religion, dismissively remarking, “we are not Venezuela.”
The president of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, thanked President Donald Trump and his administration Thursday for brokering a historic peace deal between their nations.
The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that South Africa will take a “commercial break” from the Group of 20 (G20) forum over the coming year because the rotating precedency has passed to the United States under President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump, along with the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, and the president of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, signed a historic peace agreement dubbed the Washington Accords to officially bring an end to a decades-long conflict between the countries.
Nonkululeko Patricia Mantula, a 39-year-old host on South Africa’s SAFM state radio network, was arrested and brought into court on Monday to face charges of recruiting South African men to fight for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.
Archbishop Henry Ndakuba on Friday announced that kidnapped Anglican priest Edwin Achi had been murdered by his abductors, a month after he was kidnapped from his home in the state of Kaduna and held for ransom.
Nigerian Defense Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar tendered his resignation on Monday, the office of President Bola Tinubu confirmed, amid a growing wave of jihadist violence against Christians in the country.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the Treasury Department was investigating reports that Minnesota taxpayer funds “may have been diverted to the terrorist organization” Al-Shabaab.
Two sailors have been found dead on a yacht off the coast of South Africa after an incident that may have involved pirates.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a station of national emergency over a string of brutal attacks and kidnappings, including mass abductions of school children.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday suspended the nation of Guinea-Bissau from all decision-making roles after its civilian government was overthrown in a coup.
The G20 was mostly empty theater, haunted by the looming sense that President Donald Trump was correct about the amount of geopolitical influence the U.S. can wield through trade policy.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested in remarks on Tuesday to African and European leaders that “sudden and unplanned” spending cuts following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. agency were an “opportunity” for poorer countries to pursue sovereignty.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced its 100th airstrike of the year in Somalia on Saturday, a notable milestone for a high-tempo operation that has received little media coverage or political commentary.
The World Food Program (WFP), an arm of the United Nations, warned on Tuesday that parts of Nigeria may face unprecedented hunger in the most perilous parts of the upcoming year, leaving as many as 35 million people facing “severe food insecurity.”
The Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia, located about 500 miles from the capital city of Addis Ababa, erupted on Sunday for the first time in about 12,000 years.
South African police announced on Sunday that they are investigating Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, in connection with a plot to lure South African men into fighting for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.
