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March 09, 2024
28 schoolchildren escape captors in Nigeria
LAGOS — Suspected militants kidnapped 50 people, mostly women, in northeastern Nigeria this week in the latest mass abduction by fighters who have waged an insurgency for more than a decade, Reuters reported on Wednesday quoting local officials.Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated in Borno state in the northeast, targeting security forces and civilians, in the process killing and displacing tens of thousands of people.The latest incident took place on Monday in the remote Gamboru area, which shares a border with Chad and Cameroon, said an official of the Civilian Joint Task Force, which helps the army to fight the jihadists.The official, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the group of at...
March 07, 2024
Terror strikes in northeast Nigeria as suspected insurgents abduct 50
March 07, 2024
World’s largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns, as humanitarian response hits ‘breaking point’
DAKAR — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.“The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,” the statement read.The election was initially slated for February 25 but was postponed by Sall, sparking protests across the West African nation, with angry youths burning tires in the streets in protest.However, Senegal’s Constitutional Council barred his attempts to delay the election, ruling that it must be held before April 2, when Sall’s second and final term expires.Earlier on Wednesday, Sall dissolved the government and announced that sitting Prime Minister Amadou Ba would...
March 07, 2024
Senegal sets election date after protests sparked by delay
February 28, 2024
Dozens die after bus falls off bridge in Mali
BAMAKO — An elderly Italian couple and their son, who were kidnapped by extremists in Mali in May 2022, have been released, Italy's government has said.The three were in good health, and due to return to Rome, it added.The family were Jehovah's Witnesses who were reportedly planning to set up a church when they were abducted from their home outside the southern city of Koutiala.Their domestic worker, a Togolese national, was abducted along with them. The worker's fate is unclear.The release of the couple, Rocco Langone and Maria Donata Caivano, and their son, Giovanni Langone, was secured by Italy's intelligence agency and the Foreign Ministry, thanks to their contacts with community leaders and Mali's intelligence agencies, the Italian government said.The statement...
February 27, 2024
Italian Jehovah's Witnesses seized by miiltants in Mali freed
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's battle to defeat rhino poaching has taken a turn for the worse with the numbers killed rising in 2023.Last year, 499 rhinos were hunted, an increase of 51 from the previous year, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy said.South Africa is home to most of the world's rhinos.The country has some 2,000 black rhinos, considered to be "critically endangered", and around 13,000 white rhinos, classed as "near threatened".Looking back over 10 years, poaching has fallen sharply from 2014 but has increased more recently.Rhino horns have been in huge demand in Asian states such as China and Vietnam, where they are used in traditional medicines.The majority of animals killed last year were in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal...
February 27, 2024
South African rhinos poaching on the rise in new hotspot
February 26, 2024
Dozens killed during prayers in Burkina Faso mosque attack
February 26, 2024
Mauritius blocks Norwegian cruise ship over cholera fears
February 18, 2024
Former Tanzanian leader Nyerere honored by African Union statue
