Gunmen have attacked a college in northwest Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping five other people, a teachers’ union and an official said on Friday. The attack late Thursday on the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State, is the latest in a string of abductions at schools and colleges in Africa’s most populous nation. […]
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Central African Republic govt resigns
The prime minister of the troubled Central African Republic, Firmin Ngrebada, announced on Thursday that his government had tendered its resignation. Ngrebada wrote on Twitter that he had “presented (his) resignation to the president,” Faustin Archange Touadera. But presidential spokesman Albert Yaloke Mokpeme told AFP that he may be asked to stay and form a […]
Iraq frees pro-Iran commander arrested over activist murder
Iraq’s justice system freed a commander of the state-affiliated Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary coalition on Wednesday, two weeks after he was arrested over the murder of a pro-democracy activist. Qassem Muslah was arrested by police intelligence on suspicion of ordering the May 9 killing of Ihab al-Wazni, who was shot dead by men on motorbikes using […]
At least 114 killed in deadliest Burkina Faso attacks since 2015
Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 114 civilians in Burkina Faso‘s volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials said Saturday. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore denounced an attack near the borders with Mali and Niger where jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have […]
Five Iraqi Kurd troops killed in clash with PKK rebels
Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops were killed Saturday in a clash with fighters of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said. The PKK maintains rear-bases in northern Iraq which have come under renewed assault by Turkish forces since April. Two peshmerga troops were also wounded in Saturday’s clash in the […]
Families appeal for aid freeing kidnapped Nigerian schoolkids
Relatives of scores of schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from an Islamic seminary over the weekend have appealed to the government to help free them, after the latest mass abduction to target a Nigerian school. Some 200 children were at the school in Tegina, central Niger state, when it was raided on Sunday, the local government […]
100 years after Tulsa massacre, Black residents await Biden, and reparations
In Tulsa, the city that still bears the scars of a 1921 racial massacre, African American residents are eagerly awaiting the arrival of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, hoping he will hear their call for financial reparations. “I just want him to feel our pain,” said local activist Kristi Williams. The Democratic leader will attend […]
Southeast Nigeria streets empty for Biafra remembrance
Streets in southeast Nigeria were deserted on Monday as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine half a century ago. Markets and roads were empty in the major cities of Aba, Owerri and Akwa, at the heart of former “Republic of Biafra”, in […]
Scores of children abducted from Islamic seminary in Nigeria
Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest mass abduction to hit Africa’s most populous nation. Some 200 children were at the school in Niger state on Sunday during the attack, the local government tweeted, adding “an unconfirmed number” were taken. The abduction came a day after […]
Speakers caution against attempts to stoke unrest by misusing cyberspace
Speakers at a seminar here on Wednesday said that a fifth generation hybrid war has been imposed on the country by using the cyberspace which is affecting the minds of the youth through a storm of narratives and different ideologies. The seminar titled ‘Surf Safely to Save the Next Generation’ was organised by the Rifah […]