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A militia of some one hundred armed men stormed into a girls boarding school in northwest Nigeria on Thursday night and abducted over 300 of the schoolgirls. It was the second such kidnapping in less than a week.

Ilhan Omar was promoted within the committee despite a history of antisemitic rhetoric that resulted in a House resolution in 2019 condemning antisemitism.

Chinese broadcaster CCTV opened its annual four-hour-long Lunar New Year variety show Friday with a “multicultural” dance performance featuring ethnically Han Chinese performers in black skin paint pretending to be African. The use of blackface prompted global ire, as it was not the first instance of it appearing in the program.

The head of the West African Bishops’ Conference has denounced President Biden’s decision “to promote the destruction of human lives domestically and in developing nations” through taxpayer-funded abortion.

A large majority of the children of African migrants born in France in the Paris region say that, within the next ten years, they want to migrate to their parents’ homelands.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday that South Africa would begin a crackdown on Christmas celebrations in response to a surge in coronavirus cases.

Villagers in Makwa, Zimbabwe, have expressed outrage at Chinese mining companies for damaging a town road so severely that it has been described as a “death trap,” the New Zimbabwe reported Sunday.

(AFP) – President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the Al-Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said Friday.

The Islamic terror group Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the massacre of at least 76 farmworkers in northeast Nigeria over the weekend, warning it will carry out similar atrocities if communities attempt to report the group to authorities.

Charles Juma, a manager in the Kenyan government agency responsible for organizing medical supplies, told lawmakers that his boss received death threats from the “deep state” if he did not give Coronavirus supply contracts to companies owned by their friends, the Daily Nation reported on Tuesday.

A spokesman for Zanu-PF, the ruling socialist party in Zimbabwe, reportedly dismissed the American presidential election as a “circus” on Monday and falsely accused President Donald Trump of saying all Africans were “assholes.”

Thousands of Ethiopians from the northern region of Tigray have fled to neighboring Sudan over the past week to escape escalating violence between federal government forces and communist guerrilla leaders.

Looters in Nigeria have targeted state-owned warehouses across the country stocked with Chinese coronavirus relief supplies amid outrage at the government for hoarding them, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The city of Onitsha in eastern Nigeria held an impressive rally for U.S. President Donald Trump last week, complete with Republican campaign signs, red hats, and a mixture of American and Nigerian flags. Trump is enormously popular in Nigeria, to the befuddlement of many American media observers.

Reuters reported that six gunmen on motorbikes with AK-47s seized Walton and left his family and brother tied up in their home.

Chinese state media on Thursday called on the Western world to help African nations pay their enormous debts, many of which just happen to be owed to Chinese banks thanks to China’s debt-trap Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Increasing numbers of women in Zimbabwe are being forced to turn to sex work and prostitution to stay afloat, a report revealed Thursday, as the impact of lockdowns triggered by the Chinese coronavirus batter the socialist country’s already failing economy.

Security forces surrounded Christian churches in the African nation of Gabon Sunday to prevent the reopening of Sunday worship after six months of government-imposed lockdown due to the coronavirus.

Some of the emails obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop by the New York Post last week illuminate the ties between the son of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and a bankrupt Chinese energy company called CEFC China Energy. The owner of CEFC, Ye Jianming, was among the most ambitious of Chinese tycoons before his business empire collapsed and he vanished into the Communist nation’s shadowy prison system.

Immigration lawyers tried and failed to prevent the U.S. repatriation of roughly 100 African migrants back to their home countries amid a rising flow of asylum seekers from the conflict-wracked poor continent.

Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Finance spent $10.6 billion in unauthorized expenditure in the space of three years between 2015 and 2018, the country’s Public Accounts Portfolio Committee (PAC) revealed on Tuesday.

A report co-produced by The New Humanitarian, a non-profit human rights news agency, and Reuters on Tuesday said that 51 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused World Health Organization (WHO) personnel, along with representatives of several aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, of using the Ebola crisis as an opportunity to sexually exploit them.

Africa is experiencing losses of nearly $89 billion a year because of “illicit financial flows” such as corruption and tax evasion, amounting to more than what it receives in foreign aid, a United Nations study found this week.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping offered millions in investments to the global agencies, urged other countries to offer Africa debt relief, and promised the Communist Party would fight neither a “cold war [nor] a hot one” with any country during his remarks at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

Health workers across Africa have repeatedly gone on strike since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic began over adverse working conditions. In Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, doctors and nurses say a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), no health insurance, and no pay are among the reasons they have chosen to strike.

DAKAR, Senegal — American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism’s uncertain future.

Authorities in Zimbabwe arrested an opposition lawmaker on Monday for distributing masks demanding the removal of the country’s repressive socialist regime, local media reports.

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned Tuesday after being held prisoner for a few hours, along with Prime Minister Boubou Cisse, by a force of mutinous soldiers.

An immigrant from Africa is accused of spitting on four police officers in Portland, Maine, after being arrested for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle.

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.

Hospitals in Nigeria are rejecting dying patients over fears of spreading the Chinese coronavirus, an investigation by Premium Times found on Friday. 

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. 

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.

Authorities in Ethiopia imposed a nationwide shutdown of the Internet on Tuesday amid protests over the death of a prominent musician and political activist, Internet monitoring organizations and rights groups have confirmed. 

Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo called Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday to apologize for the unceremonious demolition of the country’s embassy in Accra by a local businessman claiming to own the land. 

Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, the black man who died last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, is asking the United Nations to investigate policing in the United States for racism and “police brutality.”