The Nigerian military is in a bind. It makes progress in its war on Boko Haram insurgents in the country’s northeast only to see the progress relatively rolled back by forces that appear to have defied all efforts directed at making them relent and allow Nigeria have peace. The output of the sabotage by these […]
A man died after being injured in clashes between two groups of university students in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Wednesday, the interior ministry said in a statement. Violence erupted between students supporting the ruling National Congress Party and another group from Darfur who criticised recent elections won by President Omar al-Bashir, an eyewitness said. […]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has reportedly said that only white people are “living better lives” in South Africa while black Africans are “still very low”. According to The Herald, Mugabe, 91, said this during a media briefing at the end of a one day extraordinary Southern African Development Committee (SADC) summit in Harare on Wednesday. […]
Armed insurgents exchanged fire with soldiers in Mali on Wednesday, plunging peace negotiations into disarray in the first clash this year between government forces and the main Tuareg rebel alliance. A Malian army colonel said fighters from the Tuareg-led Co-ordination for the Movements of Azawad (CMA) had ambushed military positions in Lere, a central town […]
The tears have begun to flow, ceaselessly – across the globe. For the four Nigerians, and five other nationals convicted for smuggling narcotics into Indonesia, the rat-tat-tat of guns, trained against them on fatal errands, may begin today. Their names are given as: Martin Anderson, 50; Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47; Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50; and […]
A bomb exploded outside Spain’s embassy in the Libyan capital on Monday night without causing injuries, a security source told AFP, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group. “Islamic State extremists concealed an explosive device near an exterior wall of the Spanish embassy building in Tripoli, which caused some material damage to […]
North Korea has accused Mexico of illegally holding one of its ships, after it ran aground last year. It said the Mu Du Bong was a legitimate commercial ship and its detention a “rampant violation” of sovereignty. But a UN expert says the ship belongs to North Korea’s Ocean Maritime Management, which is […]
Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country’s northwest and killing at least 35 people, officials said on Monday. Rescuers and villagers recovered the bodies of victims after storms flattened thousands of houses, uprooted trees and electricity poles and damaged paddy fields across a large area on Saturday […]
Rebels in Sudan’s South Kordofan said on Sunday they had captured a lorry carrying ballot boxes to polling stations for nationwide elections due next week, vowing to disrupt voting in the conflict-hit region. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North “ambushed and captured a vehicle loaded fully with ballot boxes” on Saturday on the road linking the […]
Authorities in Kenya on Sunday identified one of the al-Shabab gunmen who massacred 148 people at a university as the son of a Kenyan government official. An Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said that Abdirahim Abdullahi was among four suicide attackers killed during Thursday’s massacre at Garissa University College. The spokesman said the government […]
At least 10 people are missing, feared dead, in Burundi after landslides which have destroyed hundreds of homes, officials say. Some 3,000 people have been left homeless, according to a BBC reporter who has been to the scene. Their houses were destroyed after mud and rocks, dislodged by the rain, plunged down the hillside. Reports […]
At least 45 villagers were killed in a dawn raid Sunday by suspected herdsmen in Nigeria’s central Benue state, a police spokesman and a legislator said. “I confirm that 45 people, including women and children, were killed this morning in an attack on Egba village… of Benue state by suspected herdsmen,” state police spokesman […]