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ABUJA — Nigeria's Minister of Defense, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned from his position with immediate effect for health reasons, the president's office has said.The 63-year-old's departure coincides with a period of heightened security challenges across Nigeria, with the government under pressure to deal with a spate of mass kidnappings.Last week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that at least 402 people, mostly schoolchildren, had been kidnapped since mid-November.In the latest sign of the insecurity, gunmen abducted at least 20 people, including a Christian pastor, a Muslim bride and her bridesmaids, in two separate raids in the north on Sunday.Some 250 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Niger state...
December 02, 2025
Nigeria's defense minister resigns amid kidnapping crisis
AL-DABBAH, Sudan — Abdulqadir Abdullah Ali suffered serious nerve damage to his leg during the long siege of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher because he could not get medicine for his diabetes.The 62-year-old walks with a heavy limp, but he was so panicked when fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) finally captured the city in the western Darfur region, he felt no pain as he ran."The morning the RSF came there were bullets, many bullets, and explosives going off," he says."People were out of control [with fear], they ran out of their houses, and everyone ran in different directions, the father, the son, the daughter — running."The fall of el-Fasher after an 18-month siege is a particularly brutal chapter in Sudan's civil war.The BBC has travelled to a tent camp...
December 01, 2025
'I saw them driving over injured people' — the terrifying escape from war in Sudan
November 29, 2025
Nigeria disputes claims jihadist groups behind recent mass kidnappings
November 28, 2025
Kidnap gangs, Islamist radicals and separatists wreaking havoc in Nigeria
November 28, 2025
General named new Guinea-Bissau leader a day after coup
November 27, 2025
South Africa hits back after Trump says US won't invite it for G20 next year
November 27, 2025
Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia's president
November 27, 2025
Soldiers seize power in Guinea-Bissau and detain the president
November 26, 2025
Two dozen schoolgirls freed after kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria
November 25, 2025
Tanzania cancels independence day celebrations after election unrest
