LISBON, Portugal—José Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent’s longest civil war and turned his country into a major oil producer as well as one of the world’s poorest and most corrupt nations, died Friday. He was 79. Dos Santos died…
What Population Growth Reduction Programs Entail in Practice: Expert
July 9, 2022
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Certain elitists and the United Nations believe the world is overpopulated, and so population growth needs to be reduced. However, population control programs in many countries often use forcible methods, said Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute. In the view of billionaires, such as Bill Gates, with the exception of Elon Musk, the…
UK Government Press on With Rwanda Migrant Plan Despite Boris Johnson Resignation
Downing Street has confirmed the government will carry on with the Home Office plan to send illegal immigrants who have crossed the English Channel to Rwanda, despite Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister on Thursday. The prime minister’s official spokesman said on Friday: “This is a pre-agreed government policy. Convention doesn’t prevent or preclude government…
Some 440 Inmates on Run After Suspected Boko Haram Raid on Nigeria Prison
ABUJA—Around 440 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Boko Haram terrorists on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said. The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari—who was not present—heading to his hometown in the northern state of…
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Will Start Selling Gold Coins Amid Sky-High Inflation, Currency Devaluation
The government of Zimbabwe has announced that it will issue gold coins in July, a move that is being viewed with skepticism by many local currency traders. The gold coin, which will be called “Mosi-Oa-Tunya,” will weigh one troy ounce and have a purity of 22 carats, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said in a…
Nigeria’s Barkindo, Who Led OPEC in Turbulent Times, Dies at 63
ABUJA—The secretary general of oil producers group OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo, has died, the boss of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC) announced on Wednesday. Barkindo, 63, a veteran of the oil industry, was due to step down at the end of this month after six years in the top job at the Organization of the Petroleum…
Terrorists Kidnapping Hundreds of Nigerian Women, Using Them as Sex Slaves
NIGERIA—Hundreds of women are being kidnapped every week and held as sex slaves by bandit terrorists in Nigeria’s north, according to a national politician. And the government is unconcerned, said Umar Barde a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives in a phone interview with The Epoch Times. “They [terrorists] rape both young and old…
Armed Men Kill at Least 22 in North Burkina Faso Attack
OUAGADOUGOU—Armed assailants killed at least 22 civilians in northwest Burkina Faso on Monday, a local official said, the latest deadly attack in an area marred by militant activity. The attackers raided a rural commune in the province of Kossi, around 55 kilometres from the border with Mali, in the hours between late Sunday night and…
Catholic Priest Abducted in Nigeria, Diocese Says
KANO, Nigeria—A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said on Monday. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the morning mass….
At Least 32 Villagers Massacred in Another Ethnic Attack in Cameroon
Simmering tensions surrounding the ownership of a fertile piece of land between two struggling communities in the remote area of Akwaya in southwestern Cameroon, degenerated into another bloodbath on June 25. Ferdinand Adawa Ugbe never lived to see the cocoa plantation he planned to set up on the disputed Ufambe fertile farmland, in his native…
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