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A loaded car drives on the Kanji-Agwarra road, Niger State, Nigeria, 25 November 2025. (EPA)
Nigeria disputes claims jihadist groups behind recent mass kidnappings
ABUJA — The Nigerian government says Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province (Iswap) are responsible for a recent surge in mass abductions across north-western and central Nigeria, but analysts dispute the claim, arguing that the attacks were carried out by local criminal gangs known as “bandits.” This marks the first time the government has publicly attributed the kidnappings to jihadist groups, though it offered no evidence to support the assessment. Kidnapping for ransom has become widespread in recent years, involving a mix of armed gangs, jihadist factions, and separatist groups. While ransoms remain illegal, officials have long been accused of covertly paying them. Three mass abductions have taken place in the past two weeks:• 17 November — Kebbi state: 25...
November 29, 2025

Nigeria disputes claims jihadist groups behind recent mass kidnappings

Many of the bandits who are part of the criminal gangs of the north-west hide out in forested areas
Kidnap gangs, Islamist radicals and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria
LAGOS — Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions. But the vast country — bigger than France and Germany combined — also faces many other security challenges.Recent attempts by US President Donald Trump and his supporters to frame the insecurity purely as the persecution of Christians overlooks the complexity of Africa's most-populous nation.There are more than 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria, which is roughly divided into a mainly Muslim north, a largely Christian south, with intermingling in the middle — and the government says people of all faiths have been victims of attacks.There are criminal gangs in the north-west, an Islamist insurgency in the north-east, clashes over land in central regions and separatist unrest in the south-east — leaving the...
November 28, 2025

Kidnap gangs, Islamist radicals and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria

Gen Horta N'Tam, centre, becomes the transitional head of state for one year
General named new Guinea-Bissau leader a day after coup
BISSAU — An army general has been sworn in as Guinea-Bissau's new head of state a day after an apparent coup.Gen Horta N'Tam becomes the transitional president for a period of one year. He took the oath on Thursday, in brief and muted proceedings at army headquarters.N'Tam, who until a day earlier had been head of the presidential guard, barely cracked a smile during his swearing-in or while stood outside flanked by officers while for cameras.Some civil society groups in Guinea-Bissau have accused outgoing President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of masterminding a "simulated coup" against himself with the help of the military, saying it was a ruse to block election results from coming out in case he lost."This manoeuvre aims to prevent the publication of the electoral results...
November 28, 2025

General named new Guinea-Bissau leader a day after coup

Ramaphosa said the US skipped the G20 leaders summit out of its own volition
South Africa hits back after Trump says US won't invite it for G20 next year
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in Florida.In a social media post, Trump said South Africa had refused to hand over the G20 presidency to a US embassy representative at last week's summit in Johannesburg."Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year."Members of the G20 – a gathering of the world's biggest economies - do not need an invite but can possibly be barred through visa restrictions.Trump boycotted the Johannesburg summit because of a widely discredited claim that...
November 27, 2025

South Africa hits back after Trump says US won't invite it for G20 next year

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema
Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia's president
LUSAKA — Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has come out fighting after a bruising month that saw him come under attack by stone throwers as he was trying to make a speech.Video clips of him crouching and then being whisked away from a rally in the Copperbelt province shocked Zambians and many people, irrespective of their political affiliation, condemned what happened.But with nine months to go until elections and a run for a second term, the president is under pressure.On Tuesday, in his first press conference for 18 months, Hichilema set out to defend his record and laid out his achievements on the key issues of the economy and power generation."This level of hatred is shocking, you can see and even touch the venom," he said, while appealing for Zambians to love each other.But...
November 27, 2025

Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia's president

President Embaló was elected in December 2019
Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president
BISSAU — A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested.Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained.The officers then appeared on state TV, saying they had suspended the electoral process, as the West African nation awaited the outcome of Sunday's presidential election.They said they were acting to thwart a plot by unnamed politicians who had "the support of a well-known drug baron" to destabilise the country, and announced the closure of its borders and imposed a night-time curfew.Sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, the coup-prone country is known as a notorious drug-trafficking hub where the military...
November 27, 2025

Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president

A disheveled dorm room is seen on November 17, after 25 students were abducted from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town, Nigeria
Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria
ABUJA — Two dozen schoolgirls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in Nigeria’s northwestern Kebbi state last week have been freed, according to officials, as the country grapples with a wave of mass abductions in recent days.Nigerian President Bola Tinubu welcomed their release on Tuesday.“I am relieved that all the 24 girls have been accounted for,” the president said in a statement from his special adviser Bayo Onanuga. “Now, we must put as a matter of urgency more boots on the ground in the vulnerable areas to avert further incidents of kidnapping.”Last Monday, armed bandits stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga town. State authorities said 25 girls were kidnapped and the school’s vice principal was killed. The school’s principal told...
November 26, 2025

Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria

President Samia Suluhu Hassan won in a vote that excluded the two main opposition leaders
Tanzania cancels independence day celebrations after election unrest
DAR ES SALAM — Tanzania has cancelled next month's independence day celebrations, with the funds to be instead spent on rebuilding infrastructure damaged in recent election unrest, Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has said.His announcement comes as the opposition and others have been calling for people to gather on independence day — 9 December — to demonstrate about killings that took place following last month's disputed poll.The opposition believes hundreds of people died in the crackdown. The government has yet to give a death toll and has set up commission of inquiry.President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the poll with 98% of the vote, described by the opposition as a "mockery of democracy".Her key opponents were unable to contest the poll: Tundu Lissu has been in detention...
November 25, 2025

Tanzania cancels independence day celebrations after election unrest

Parents pickup their children from the Federal Government Girl’s College Bwari in Abuja, Nigeria, 22 November 2025
Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held
ABUJA — Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday.Armed bandits kidnapped 303 children and 12 teachers from the St. Mary’s Private Catholic school in the country’s north-central Niger State on Friday, according to CAN. The students are both male and female, some as young as ten.“The pupils escaped between Friday and Saturday and have reunited with their parents as they could not return to the school after they escaped,” spokesman for CAN’s Niger State chapter chairman Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, Daniel Atori, said in a statement.Atori said 253 children – including 250 students from the school and three children...
November 24, 2025

Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held

Parents pickup their children from the Federal Government Girl's College Bwari in Abuja, Nigeria, 22 November 2025. (EPA)
More than 300 children and staff kidnapped from Nigerian school in major mass abduction
ABUJA — More than 300 children and staff members are now believed to have been kidnapped from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, in what has become one of the country’s worst mass abductions in years. The Christian Association of Nigeria said 303 students and 12 teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger State—significantly higher than initial estimates. The association said the revised figure followed a detailed verification exercise. The scale of the abduction surpasses the 276 girls taken during the 2014 Chibok kidnapping, which shocked the world. Local police said armed men stormed the boarding school around 2 a.m. on Friday, abducting students as they slept. “Everybody is weak… it took everybody by surprise,” said Dominic Adamu, whose daughters attend...
November 22, 2025

More than 300 children and staff kidnapped from Nigerian school in major mass abduction

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