On a cool November morning, members of a local council in central Nigeria met religious leaders at the traditional ruler’s palace to discuss religious harmony as US President Donald Trump revs up accusations of Christian persecution in Africa’s most populous country.Nigeria, a west African country of 230 million people, is roughly evenly split between a …
An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal.The government, backed by the army, has yet to respond to US-led international mediators, and explosions rocked the army-controlled capital Khartoum on Friday.Experts express doubt about whether the …
Tanzanian rights groups condemned on Friday widespread reports of “reprisal killings” of civilians, some in their own homes, in post-election violence that the opposition say killed hundreds.President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the October 29 poll with 98 percent of the vote, according to the electoral commission, but the opposition, which was barred from participating, has …
Despite the two major cities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo having fallen into the hands of the M23 militia, some residents are celebrating their newfound fortunes — amassed through cryptocurrency trading. Crypto trading is seemingly a silver bullet to the economic crisis plaguing the region, where banks have been ordered closed by the Kinshasa authorities …
Few places in the small African kingdom of Eswatini have a more feared reputation than the Matsapha Correctional Centre, a high-security sprawl of concrete and rust outside the capital, Mbabane. “It’s like a jungle,” a former detainee told AFP of the prison that is holding 14 men deported from the United States in the Trump …
Inside the Eswatini ‘jungle’ prison holding US deporteesFri, 07 Nov 2025 06:32:46 GMT Read More »
Leading Eswatini human rights lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi likens the shadowy US expulsions of 15 men to his country, a tiny kingdom in southern Africa, to kidnappings.Since the first five deportees were flown from the United States on a military plane in July, authorities have blocked the lawyer from visiting them at the high-security prison where …
US deportations like a kidnapping, says Eswatini lawyerFri, 07 Nov 2025 06:24:14 GMT Read More »
The opposition party of Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo said Thursday it will boycott December parliamentary elections after a high-ranking party official was charged with “terrorist acts”.Damana Pickass was detained near Abidjan Tuesday on allegations he “called for a popular insurrection and the overthrowing of (state) institutions” linked to the October 25 presidential vote, a prosecutor …
Ethiopia’s Afar region has said it came under attack from the forces of neighbouring Tigray, accusing it of seizing control of villages and bombing civilians, in the latest sign of internal conflict in the fractured nation.Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in …
Ethiopia’s Afar region says attacked by Tigray forcesThu, 06 Nov 2025 20:39:44 GMT Read More »
The International Criminal Court Thursday confirmed all 39 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by fugitive Uganda warlord Joseph Kony, including murder, enslavement, rape, and torture.The leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army spearheaded a campaign of terror across northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005.Under ICC procedure, a trial would …
ICC confirms charges against Ugandan warlord KonyThu, 06 Nov 2025 19:13:31 GMT Read More »
A US judge dropped criminal charges against Boeing on Thursday over deadly crashes of its 737 MAX 8 aircraft as part of an agreement between the company and prosecutors.Judge Reed O’Connor’s decision stemmed from a May 23 agreement between the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the aircraft manufacturer to resolve the case over two crashes …
