Rhoda Kadalie, a pioneering feminist, anti-apartheid activist, and Trump supporter, passed away on April 16 after a quiet battle with lung cancer. She left many memorable quotes: these are just a few that summarize her incredible life.
Bishop Sikuli Paluku of the Catholic diocese of Butembo-Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has condemned the rebel raid of a Mass on Easter morning as a profanation and a sacrilege.
Armed members of the Mai-Mai rebel movement stormed a Catholic church during Easter Sunday Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after which one of the rebels was shot dead by soldiers.
Archbishop Justin Welby, the de facto head of the Church of England, has used his Easter message to attack British government plans to transfer some male boat migrants to Rwanda while their asylum claims are processed, claiming the policy “is the opposite of the nature of God”.
The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced plans for a potential arms sale to Nigeria’s government worth $997 million that would include the transfer of 12 AH-1Z attack helicopters, the U.S. Defense Security Operation Agency (DSCA) reported on its official website.
International Christian aid group Open Doors spotlighted the generous and forgiving prayers of Nigerian pastors on this Easter holiday. They prayed for peace in a land that rarely knows it and asked for the salvation of enemies in a region that has no shortage of them.
Amnesty International reported Wednesday that 109 women remain unaccounted eight years after the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a state-run secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.
International Christian Concern (ICC) has denounced the ongoing “genocide” being carried out on Nigerian Christians by Fulani militants and other Islamic extremists.
Islamic extremists raided the village of Masambo in the northeastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on April 3, the Barnabas Fund reported Thursday.
A group of unidentified Nigerian terrorists released a video on Monday appearing to show hostages abducted from a passenger train attacked by the terror group on March 28, Africnews reported.
Rhoda Kadalie’s remarkable journey teaches that a true love of liberty transcends the categories that often confine our political thinking.
A court in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, which enforces Islamic law (sharia) alongside common law, sentenced an atheist man to 24 years in prison on Tuesday on the charge of “blasphemy” for a Facebook statement he posted in April 2020 deemed offensive to Islam, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a joint report on Wednesday in which they alleged Ethiopia’s federal government has perpetrated “ethnic cleansing … crimes against humanity and war crimes” in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as part of a civil war between Addis Ababa and the separatist militia known as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Officials in charge of a mosque in Nigeria’s national capital, Abuja, fired the site’s chief imam, or prayer leader, on Monday after he recently delivered a sermon critical of Nigerian government officials, including Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, for failing to protect the West African nation from terror attacks, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.
A South African municipal by-election has pitted opposition party titans – one led by Herman Mashaba, a new entrant on the political landscape who styles himself as a black Donald Trump; and the other the Leader of the Official Opposition, John Steenhuisen – in a battle for the right to lead the fight against the national ruling African National Congress (ANC).
At least 168 passengers of a Nigerian train targeted in a terror attack last week as it traveled from Nigeria’s national capital region, Abuja, to Kaduna state, “have yet to be accounted for,” Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported on Monday.
Nigeria will consider conducting trade with Russia in national currencies, i.e., in Russian rubles, “if necessary,” Nigerian Ambassador to Moscow Abdullahi Shehu told Russia’s state-owned Sputnik news agency on Thursday.
No food from international aid groups has entered northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region since Addis Ababa and Tigrayan separatists announced a truce — specifically to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Tigray — in their civil war on March 25, World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
Senegalese soccer fans used laser pointers to blind Egypt’s Mo Salah as he attempted a critical penalty kick during a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.
Nigerian soccer fans reacted to their team’s failure to reach the World Cup on Tuesday by storming the field and wrecking property before being tear-gassed by police.
North-central Nigeria has suffered from a spate of attacks by unidentified militants across the neighboring states of Kaduna and Niger and the national capital region of Abuja in recent days, with gunmen separately attacking an airport, major rail line, and Christian villages, local media reported on Tuesday.
Unidentified armed bandits kidnapped Father Felix Zakari Fidson in northern Nigeria on Friday, the Catholic feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary.
Ethiopia’s 16-month-long civil war observed a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier to allow humanitarian aid delivery to Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
A group of climate activists met briefly with Pope Francis in the Vatican Wednesday to request his backing in their crusade to halt the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
Nigeria has suffered from massive oil spills in recent months while simultaneously reporting fuel shortages, indicating extreme levels of resource mismanagement by the nation’s government, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) reported on Thursday.
Cameroon’s government on Monday blamed Moscow’s latest war with Kyiv for a preexisting nationwide wheat shortage, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
According to a report published by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai this weekend, the world’s poorest nations will pay China almost $14 billion in 2022 to service their debts.
Daniel Bekele, chief of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, said on Friday that a string of highly unusual and little-discussed police raids this month took at least eight Ethiopian government officials into custody, implicity for human rights violations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of Sunday discussing potential Chinese investments with his counterparts from Algeria, Tanzania, and Zambia, claiming that the war between Ukraine and Russia demands even more Chinese attention on the continent of Africa.
South Sudan is set to endure its “worst hunger crisis to date” in the coming months, Voice of America (VOA) quoted World Food Program (WFP) representative Marwa Awad as saying on Friday.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday demanding his administration issue an assessment of accusations of genocide against the government of Ethiopia and demanding Biden do more to address the brutal civil war in that country.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) recently dismissed 2,574 officials from leadership positions as part of a major political reshuffle amid Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the Addis Standard reported on Wednesday.
A Nigerian national told the BBC on Wednesday he is willing to fight for Ukraine in its latest war against Russia and would volunteer to do so because he believes “being a soldier in Ukraine would be better than being here,” referring to his life in Lagos, Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari apologized “to all sections of the society” in a statement Wednesday for Nigeria’s increasingly critical shortages of gasoline and other petroleum fuel products, as well as a rotting electric grid that collapsed twice this week, leaving the entire country in the dark.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres applauded his organization in a report made public on Tuesday for taking “robust measures” against its own deplorable record of sexual abuse, including “mandatory training” and “annual surveys.”
Airlines in Nigeria warned this week that they were days away from running out of jet fuel, and business groups demanded the government act to stabilize petroleum product availability nationwide, Nigeria’s Vanguard reported on Wednesday, as Africa’s largest oil producer struggles to refine any of its supply.
Moderna finalized an agreement with Kenya’s government on Monday to build the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant’s first manufacturing facility for mRNA vaccines on the African continent, Africanews reported Tuesday.
The Christian aid group Open Doors revealed Wednesday that a Christian is violently killed for the faith in Nigeria every two hours on average, 365 days a year.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.”
Armed gunmen identified only as “terrorists” broke into a church in Kaduna, Nigeria Tuesday and kidnapped the Catholic priest, Father Joseph Aketeh.
