PAPIRI, Niger State — Nigeria’s government is making “no meaningful effort” to rescue more than 250 children abducted from a Catholic boarding school in Niger state last Friday, according to Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, the region’s leading Catholic cleric.
The bishop, who chairs the Niger chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), said the only official action taken so...
LUANDA, Angola — The seventh annual European Union–African Union summit opened in Angola on Monday under the theme “Promoting peace and prosperity through effective multilateralism.”
The two-day event marks 25 years of EU-AU partnership and coincides with the 50th anniversary of independence for Angola and several African nations. The summit is co-chaired by Angolan President João Lourenço and European Council...
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptians went to the polls on Monday in the second phase of parliamentary elections, covering 13 governorates including Cairo and Suez. More than 34 million people were eligible to vote...
AFAR, Ethiopia — The long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar region erupted on Sunday for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending ash plumes up to 14 kilometres into the sky...
MINNA, Nigeria — Nigeria is facing yet another wave of distressing school kidnappings after armed men attacked St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Niger...
Premier League leaders to drop tourism brand from sleeves at season’s end
LONDON, England — English football club Arsenal has announced it will terminate its partnership with Visit Rwanda at the end of the current...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Johannesburg on Friday for the opening of the G20 summit, where he was welcomed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of...
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautiously welcomed a new U.S. peace proposal aimed at ending Moscow’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine, signaling a rare opening for potential negotiations.
Putin said the plan...
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Nearly a month after being sworn in as Madagascar’s “president of the refoundation,” Colonel Michael Randrianirina delivered his first national address,...
LUALABA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A bridge at the Kalando copper and cobalt mine in Mulondo, southeastern Congo, collapsed on Saturday, killing at...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria has dropped plans to introduce a 15 percent import duty on petrol and diesel, the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum...
KHARTOUM, Sudan — International medical NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says hundreds of civilians have been victims of torture and sexual violence since Sudan’s...
ACCRA, Ghana — Nineteen West African nationals deported from the United States to Ghana have disappeared after being moved under armed guard to undisclosed...
