The killing of a 54-year-old albino man in Malawi on New Year’s Eve have triggered concerns of a resurgence of murders, rapes, and mutilations against people with albinism in the country and greater region, where witch doctors claim potions made out of albino body parts can bring good luck.
Millions of voters took to the polls across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to participate in the December 30 elections, but the country’s election body delayed releasing the results, prompting concerns of fraud this week.
The Emergency Room of a Swedish hospital was closed down Friday morning after a patient recently returned from Africa arrived vomiting blood, a possible symptom of the deadly and contagious Ebola virus.
Contents: Kenya’s debt repayments to China triple in July; Concerns grow that China may take control of Kenya’s port at Mombasa
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked Boko Haram jihadis, driving in a convoy of more than ten terrorist vehicles, launched a major attack in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State near the end of last year, overrunning military bases and forcing some of the troops to flee into neighboring Chad.
With 2018 in the rear-view mirror, some of the world’s largest, most influential, and most volatile states prepare to elect their heads of government this year. Below, five countries whose presidential races – or attempts at hosting presidential races – will help shape the political impact of 2019.
MADRID (AP) – Spanish police say they have seized 3.25 metric tons (3.64 short tons) of hashish in two operations against drug trafficking across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reportedly issued a decree over the weekend to create a panel to fight “sectarian incidents” in the wake of a wave of Islamic extremist attacks targeting the country’s Christian minority this year.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday denied reports that China is preparing to seize the strategic port of Mombasa as compensation for delinquent loan payments, denouncing reports of the impending seizure as “propaganda.”
Contents: Burundi’s president Nkurunziza says Rwanda is no longer a partner but an enemy; Burundi orders the UN to close its human rights office in Burundi; Fears grow of a new Hutu-Tutsi war
Contents: Xi Jinping’s speech on ‘the humiliation of the Chinese nation for centuries’; China’s history since the May Fourth Movement; Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’: revenge for centuries of humiliation
Contents: DR Congo in election chaos, as Ebola continues to spread; DRC anti-government protesters attack Ebola clinic in Beni
Boko Haram terrorists reportedly raised their flag at a military base Thursday in Nigerian Borno state’s Baga town, trapping 2,000 troops and forcing 700 others to go missing.
The struggle to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) suffered another setback on Thursday when a treatment center came under attack from protesters enraged by the cancellation of Sunday’s presidential vote in the city of Beni.
Violent protests broke out in the Tunisian city of Kasserine on Tuesday after a journalist self-immolated, allegedly to trigger a revolution.
Contents: Sudan police crack down violently against anti-government protesters; Recent generational history of Sudan
Chinese diplomats are reportedly urging local law enforcement in Nigeria to step up their investigation into the “cruel” murder of three Chinese factory workers whose burned corpses authorities recently found in Lagos, the African country’s most populous city, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Sunday.
Contents: Al-Shabaab double bombing kills 16 people in Mogadishu, Somalia; Somalia’s ‘Black Hawk Down’ event affects US policy today
Contents: China’s CPEC project marginalizes Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province; NY Times: CPEC in Pakistan will build military jets and weaponry for China
Uganda graduated its first set of Mandarin language teachers on Thursday, equipped to teach in secondary (high) schools and supported by the Chinese government.
Peter Chérif, who is suspected of being behind the Islamist shootings at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015, has been apprehended in Djibouti and is expected to be extradited to France within days.
Moroccan authorities on Thursday reportedly arrested four suspected jihadis for hacking two Scandinavian backpackers to death and beheading one of them in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains. The suspects allegedly made a video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) before the murders.
The United Nations issued a report on Wednesday that found torture, sexual violence, and extrajudicial murder rampant in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which not coincidentally is grappling with one of the worst Ebola outbreaks in history.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is scheduled to hold a presidential election on Sunday and this time, Joseph Kabila is not a candidate.
WASHINGTON, DC — Muslim Fulani herdsmen represent the top terrorist threat facing Christians in Nigeria, an influential bishop based in the African country told Breitbart News Wednesday, echoing other analysts.
(AFP) Islamists are suspected to have carried out the murder of two young Scandinavian women trekking in southern Morocco, one of whom was beheaded, a source close to the probe said Wednesday.
A court in South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for the former First Lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe, after she allegedly assaulted model Gabriella Engels last year.
Brexiteer MP Andrew Bridgen called on Theresa May to oppose the South African government’s plans to seize land from white farmers during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
The Nigerian military launched a war against the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Amnesty International this week for allegedly working with Boko Haram and undermining the soldiers in Nigeria.
(AFP) — Moroccan authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspect following the murder of two Scandinavian tourists in the High Atlas mountains, the interior ministry said.
Highly-trained Boko Haram jihadis reportedly overran military posts and set fire to the corpses of four farmers and more than 50 houses in different attacks in the terrorist group’s birthplace of Borno state in Nigeria over the weekend, forcing soldiers to flee into the bushes.
Nigeria has failed to protect Christians under siege by Boko Haram and other jihadists, pro-Christian groups argued in a letter this week, urging U.S. lawmakers to officially deem the African nation guilty of severe religious freedom violations.
National Security Adviser John Bolton accused China and Russia of exploiting Africa with “predatory policies” that stunt the growth of African nations and threaten their independence.
John Bolton said the Trump administration would no longer provide foreign aid to countries hostile to U.S. interests.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda-linked jihadi groups that pose a threat to the United States are expanding and increasing their lethality in Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton warned on Thursday, echoing the latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI).
The much-feared spread of Ebola virus from rural regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to larger cities and across the border into neighboring countries may be coming to pass.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, unveiling President Donald Trump’s Africa strategy on Thursday, accused Russia and China of “predatory practices” that interfere with American military operations on the continent and pose a significant threat to America’s homeland security interests.
WASHINGTON, DC — China is using its economic clout in Africa to promote a “new international order” and encourage countries to adopt its communist ideology, experts told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Contents: Ebola in DR Congo spreads southward to large cities; Uganda and South Sudan vaccinate health workers against Ebola
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, who survived horrific sexual abuse at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), received the Nobel Peace Prize Monday.
