Africa

Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Burkina Faso, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), claimed on Thursday it was targeting militias allied with the ruling junta, not civilians, when it launched an attack that killed almost 300 people last weekend.

The feud between Libya’s two governments for control of its central bank intensified on Wednesday as more oil fields shut down and the eastern government demanded the return of ousted bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir.

The United Nations World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in hunger-plagued Sudan for fraud.

Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.

Nigeria accused a Chinese company of using “unorthodox means” and “subterfuge” to seize Nigerian government property abroad.

Sweden announces first confirmed case of a more severe “Mpox” strain, the virus formerly known as Monkeypox, diagnosed outside of Africa.

A leading South African bishop has warned of a mounting presence and increased financial activity of individuals linked to the Islamic State.

U.N. experts warn the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region.

The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus may declare an international health emergency for monkeypox.

Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, who has been at the center of controversy after the International Boxing Association (IBA) chief claimed Khelif had male chromosomes, refused to answer any questions on Sunday about biological sex or fairness concerns at the Paris Games.

Dozens of mercenaries from Russia’s notorious Wagner Group were reportedly killed in two separate ambushes in Mali over the weekend.

Ugandan police arrested at least 42 young protesters and charged them with disorderly conduct on Tuesday after they gathered outside the parliament building in Kampala to demonstrate against government corruption.

Soccer fans are once again causing major problems, this time for the 2024 Olympics as a game between Morocco and Argintina was suspended.

Libya reportedly arrested a director of the local Ghadames Airlines, which stands accused of flying U.S.-bound migrants to Nicaragua.

South Africa’s business community is reacting with alarm to a vote last week in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill requiring the government to review ties with the African nation due to its anti-Western foreign policies.

The Biden Department of State has released its annual report on the U.S. government’s international efforts to impose its LGBTQI+ agenda on the world.

A militant group known as the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) attacked a gold mine linked to China on Wednesday.

Riots continued across Kenya a week after President William Ruto withdrew an unpopular bill that would have raised taxes by over $2.7 billion.

Reports out of northern Nigeria on Sunday and Monday indicate the death toll in a string of suicide bombings in northeast Borno state has risen significantly, including as many as 30 people and threatening to grow as hospitals take in dozens of injured.

Officials say 18 people died Saturday when female suicide bombers targeted people in northern Nigeria, leaving community members on edge.

Kenyan President William Ruto announced on Wednesday morning that he would back down from signing a proposed tax hike bill.

Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned on Tuesday that a new and deadly strain of monkeypox, or “mpox,” is spreading among “sex workers” in the conflict-prone eastern part of the country.

At least five people were killed and 30 wounded in Kenya on Tuesday when anti-tax protesters attempted to storm Parliament and police responded by firing live ammunition. 

The spread of terrorism and Islamic extremism in Africa is a cause of “great suffering and pain” for Christians, per the ACN.

Father Mikah Suleiman was abducted by armed gunmen in northwest Nigeria this weekend, the third such kidnapping of a Christian pastor in the past month.

A Kenyan Interior Ministry official said a force of police officers is finally ready to depart for Haiti after almost a year of hurdles.

The prime minister of Egypt announced this weekend that the government of strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would shut down at least 16 travel companies implicated in sending Egyptians to the Hajj pilgrimage without proper registration, resulting in hundreds dead from heat illness this month.

Nigeria has been experiencing a “surge” in anti-Christian violence, including numerous kidnappings and murders. These are often carried out execution style, according to recent reports.

The death toll in Sudan’s conflict regions continues to rise as junta forces block civilians from receiving food and medical equipment.

A North African beauty influencer died suddenly at the age of 36 after suffering a suspected heart attack while on vacation in Malta.

Police in Nairobi, Kenya, said on Tuesday they arrested over 200 people protesting against proposed tax increases in a finance bill.

South Africa’s new government is a “Government of National Unity” (GNU) between the formerly dominant African National Congress (ANC), the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

The Washington Post is celebrating a man from Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati.

South Africa’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, headed by former president Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday filed a case with the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from taking its seats, because the elections last month were allegedly rigged.