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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

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses delegates at G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Cape Town, 26 February, 2025
South Africa braces for protests ahead of G20 summit
JOHANNESBURG — South African police and army held a parade on Wednesday involving helicopters, K-9 dog units and officers on motorcycles in a show of force ahead of expected protests around this weekend's Group of 20 (G20) world leaders summit in Johannesburg.South Africa has deployed 3,500 extra police officers and put the army on standby under its National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure, a body that brings police, army and intelligence services together under one command to provide security for major events.Deputy national commissioner for policing Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili told reporters that authorities were expecting protests in Johannesburg and other major cities."We will allow that right (to protest) to be exercised," she said. "But within the proper...
November 20, 2025

South Africa braces for protests ahead of G20 summit

More than 100 people were killed during the protests, rights groups say
Kenyan authorities paid trolls to threaten Gen Z protesters, Amnesty says
NAIROBI — The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said.A new report by the human rights organization said government agencies also employed surveillance and disinformation to target organisers of the mass protests, which swept Kenya across 2024 and 2025.The demonstrations were driven largely by "Gen Z" activists who used social media platforms to mobilise.In response to Amnesty's report, Kenya's interior minister said the government "does not sanction harassment or violence against any citizen".But Amnesty said it had uncovered a campaign to "silence and suppress" the protesters.Young women and LGBT+ activists were disproportionately targeted, with...
November 20, 2025

Kenyan authorities paid trolls to threaten Gen Z protesters, Amnesty says

This is the first major mass school abduction in Nigeria for more than a year
Teacher killed and 25 girls abducted in gunbattle at Nigerian school
ABUJA — Armed men have killed a teacher and abducted at least 25 students in an attack on a girls' secondary school in north-western Nigeria, police say.The gang invaded the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, at around 04:00 local time (0300 GMT) on Monday, they said.The attackers "engaged police personnel on duty in a gun duel" before scaling the perimeter fence and seizing the students from their hostel, a statement said.One member of staff was killed while trying to protect the students. A second sustained gunshot wounds and is now receiving treatment.Eyewitnesses described a large group of attackers, known locally as bandits, who arrived firing sporadically to cause panic.Residents told the BBC that the gunmen subsequently marched a number of...
November 18, 2025

Teacher killed and 25 girls abducted in gunbattle at Nigerian school

A bridge collapse at a cobalt mine in Lualaba province, Democratic Republic of Congo, has killed at least 32 miners
Bridge collpase at cobalt mine kills at least 32 in southeastern DRC
KINSHASA —A bridge at a cobalt mine in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a provincial official said on Sunday.The bridge came down on Saturday on to a flooded zone at the mine in Lualaba province, Roy Kaumba Mayonde, the provincial interior minister, told reporters. He said 32 bodies had been recovered and more were being searched for.More than 200,000 people are estimated to be working in giant illegal cobalt mines in the central African country.“Despite the strict prohibition on accessing the site due to heavy rainfall and the risk of landslides, illegal diggers forced their way into the quarry,” Mayonde said.A report by the DRC’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Support and Guidance Service, or SAEMAPE,...
November 17, 2025

Bridge collpase at cobalt mine kills at least 32 in southeastern DRC

About 1,400 Africans are said to be fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine
Over 200 Kenyans fighting for Russia in Ukraine, says minister
NAIROBI — Some 200 Kenyans are fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine and more could be recruited into the conflict, authorities say.Among them are former members of Kenya's security forces, according to Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister Musalia Mudavadi.Some of those who have been rescued said they were forced to assemble drones and handle chemicals without proper training or protective gear, the minister added.Kenyan President William Ruto last week requested the Ukrainian government to secure the release of Kenyans currently held in the conflict zone.About 1,400 citizens from across Africa are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, with some recruited through deception, the Ukraine government said last week.A young Kenyan athlete was in September captured in...
November 13, 2025

Over 200 Kenyans fighting for Russia in Ukraine, says minister

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