Recent clashes in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Jubaland region are alarming experts, exposing cracks in the country’s federal system and creating an opening for extremist militant group Al-Shabaab to gain ground.Following years of conflict, Somalia is a loose federation of five semi-autonomous member states — Puntland, Jubaland, Galmudug, Hirshabelle and South West — that maintain often fractious …
Mali’s civilian ex-prime minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, dismissed in November after he criticised the junta, was charged Tuesday with embezzlement of public funds and remanded in custody following a hearing before the country’s Supreme Court.Plagued by jihadist and separatist violence, Mali has been led by the military since back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021.Maiga is …
A record 383 aid workers were killed last year, the United Nations said Tuesday, branding the figures and lack of accountability a “shameful indictment” of international apathy, and warning that this year’s toll was equally grim.The 2024 figure was up 31 percent on the year before, the UN said on World Humanitarian Day, “driven by …
Record number of aid workers killed in 2024, UN saysTue, 19 Aug 2025 16:11:14 GMT Read More »
South African police said they arrested Tuesday the former owner of the world’s largest rhino conservation farm on charges of smuggling the horns of the endangered animals. John Hume was arrested with five other people following a “complex investigation into transnational trafficking of rhino horns” that began in 2017, the police’s specialised Hawks unit said. Trading in …
A Nigeria court postponed on Tuesday the beginning of a highly anticipated trial over the killing of dozens of Catholic worshippers in a church massacre that rocked the nation’s usually safer southwest region and drew international condemnation.On June 5, 2022, gunmen attacked Saint Francis Catholic Church in Nigeria’s Ondo state, killing at least 40 worshippers …
Nigerian judge delays trial over 2022 church massacreTue, 19 Aug 2025 14:00:11 GMT Read More »
Jihadists from Burkina Faso have stepped up their assaults on northern Togo since the beginning of the year, with the Togolese government tight-lipped on their covert infiltration.Keen not to sap the morale of the Togolese soldiers fighting the incursion, the small west African nation’s authorities have offered little in the way of official comment or …
Togo tight-lipped as Burkina jihadists infiltrate northTue, 19 Aug 2025 06:14:29 GMT Read More »
A record 383 aid workers were killed in 2024, the United Nations said Tuesday, branding the figures and lack of accountability a “shameful indictment” of international apathy — and warned this year’s toll was equally disturbing.The 2024 figure was up 31 percent on the year before, the UN said on World Humanitarian Day, “driven by …
UN says record 383 aid workers killed in 2024Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:09:17 GMT Read More »
Reporters Without Borders on Monday urged Ivory Coast to launch an investigation into the “manifestly illegal extradition” of a refugee journalist from Benin critical of his home country’s president.The press freedom watchdog, known by its French acronym RSF, called the circumstances of Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe’s arrest “murky”, and raised the possibility that the Ivorian authorities …
Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.On the most mountainous and densely populated island in the Comoros, only the most remote forests have escaped decades of deforestation — ravages which several NGOs are now trying to repair.”We lost 80 percent …
In Egypt’s Wadi al-Gemal, where swimmers share a glistening bay with sea turtles, a shadowy tourism deal is threatening one of the Red Sea’s last wild shores.Off Ras Hankorab, the endangered green turtles weave between coral gardens that marine biologists call among the most resilient to climate change in the world.By night in nesting season, …
Tourism deal puts one of Egypt’s last wild shores at riskMon, 18 Aug 2025 03:22:51 GMT Read More »
