PARIS (AP) – Prime Minister Jean Castex paid homage on Friday to six French aid workers killed last week in Niger, saying they were likely victims of the same kind of hate behind the 2015 terror attack on a French music hall.
A band of armed jihadists stormed the Lion of Judah Christian church in Azikoro, southern Nigeria, last week, shooting four of the faithful dead.
Islamic State terrorists seized a key port in northern Mozambique this week used for cargo deliveries to nearby natural gas projects worth $60 billion, local media reported on Wednesday.
A judge has sentenced a musician in northern Nigeria’s majority-Muslim Kano state to death by hanging for blasphemy against Islam’s Muhammad, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported this week.
Authorities in Zimbabwe are keeping an investigative reporter and opposition leader in leg shackles after arresting them and denying them legal representation, local media reported Wednesday.
Tensions are rising aboard the Italian ship Azzurra used to quarantine migrants for cases of coronavirus, as reports of protests and small revolts on the vessel have emerged.
Human Rights groups in Zimbabwe have accused the country’s prison authorities of starving an opposition leader and dissident journalist after the pair were arrested on dubious charges of trying to overthrow the country’s left-wing regime.
PARIS (AP) — French anti-terrorism prosecutors formally opened an investigation one day after eight people, including six French nationals, were killed by gunmen in a Niger giraffe park.
A 73-year-old man was tied up and beaten by home invaders who raped his wife, aged 46, and daughters, aged 15 and 11, in Muldersdrift, South Africa.
A Nigerian state governor said Nigerian soldiers, not Boko Haram, attacked his humanitarian aid convoy last week in Baga, a town in northeastern Borno State, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported on Monday.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has denied recent claims it lost 48 million barrels of crude oil it shipped to China, Nigerian newspaper This Day reported on Monday.
Members of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s family and other relatives of ruling African National Congress (ANC) leaders have been profiting off coronavirus emergency relief, according to an article published by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday.
Zimbabwe police have cracked down on anti-government activists in recent days, arresting and allegedly abducting some investigative journalists, South African newspaper the Daily Maverik reported Friday.
Zimbabwe’s government has agreed to pay $3.5 billion to white farmers displaced during a violent “land redistribution” program started two decades ago, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.
House Democrats launched a bill that would repeal a long-standing amendment that blocks U.S. foreign aid programs from contributing to abortion overseas.
Countries in Africa recorded a surge in the number of coronavirus cases across the continent on July 29, confirming nearly 14,000 new cases in 24 hours, AllAfrica reported on Wednesday.
A spokesman for the ruling leftist party of Zimbabwe, Patrick Chinamasa, insulted U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols in a screed Monday in which he referred to the diplomat as a “thug” and an “Uncle Tom.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping refused Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s direct request for “debt relief and cancellation” to save the African nation’s spiraling economy in a phone call last week, Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation revealed on Sunday.
A new report by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) released this week suggested that thousands of South Africans have died from ailments other than coronavirus in recent months because they went untreated due to pandemic constraints.
Uganda has documented its first fatality from the Chinese coronavirus since it began reporting coronavirus cases in March this year, the country’s Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
A video published on social media Wednesday shows Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorists shooting dead five humanitarian workers, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported.
Kenya’s largest doctors’ union protested the government welcoming more Cuban slave doctors to the country this week, taking positions that the union says would greatly help 1,000 unemployed Kenyan doctors survive.
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is throwing its weight behind proposed legislation in Kenya that would legalize abortion-on-demand, for any reason, up to birth.
Zimbabwean girls face increased risk of sexual exploitation, including child marriage, due to economic hardship and closed schools during the coronavirus pandemic, South African NGO Gender Links reported Monday.
The formidable archbishop of Durban, South Africa, said that the goals and methods of Black Lives Matter in the United States have little in common with the anti-Apartheid movement he was a part of in the late 80s and early 90s.
A Rwandan migrant has been detained after a suspected arson attack gutted the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes, France.
In the six weeks since it began on June 1, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) latest Ebola outbreak in Equateur province has already reached 56 cases, surpassing the total number of cases recorded during the province’s last outbreak of the deadly disease that began two years ago, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported on Thursday.
Doctors have blamed a surge in new coronavirus cases in the southern city of Marseilles on people coming to France from North Africa.
Hospitals in Nigeria are rejecting dying patients over fears of spreading the Chinese coronavirus, an investigation by Premium Times found on Friday.
Nigeria’s legislature on Wednesday advocated for stricter penalties for perpetrators of sexual assault, including “chopping off the genitals” of convicted rapists, Nigeria’s Premium Times reported on Thursday.
At least 356 Nigerian soldiers fighting Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria have reportedly requested retirement citing “loss of interest,” Sahara Reporters revealed on Sunday.
Sudan’s Justice Minister has announced an alleged ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), the scrapping of apostasy and alcohol laws, and an end to flogging, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported on Sunday.
The South African government has reimposed a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol as part of renewed restrictions to combat a surge in Chinese coronavirus cases, the South African Government News Agency reported on Sunday.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has revealed that an Egyptian spy worked in the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert for years, possibly collecting information on Egyptian opposition groups.
International poverty charity Oxfam warned in a report this week that the number of deaths caused by famine as a result of worldwide lockdown measures could exceed those caused by the Chinese coronavirus, which triggered the lockdowns.
A former slave trade center in west Africa’s Senegal has changed the name of its main square in response to the ongoing protest movement sparked by the police killing of black American George Floyd, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Tuesday.
Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa finally fired his Minister of Health on Tuesday, weeks after he was arrested on corruption charges related to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
At least 156 people in Ethiopia’s Oromia region have been killed in riots sparked by the killing of a popular singer and anti-government activist last week, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Sunday.
A British Falklands War hero has been murdered in an armed raid on the South African farm where he was living with his partner.
A Zimbabwean man who was shot and seriously wounded by his Chinese employer will be demanding compensation after the attack reportedly left him with a permanent disability.
