Category: Africa

‘Black Hole For Human Rights’: Tit-for-tat Killings Increase in Cameroon

The protracted civil war between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone militants fighting for a breakaway state produced a new wave of violence in recent months. Forty-nine patients narrowly escaped death on June 8 when unidentified gunmen attacked and burnt the Mamfe District Hospital in the crisis-hit Southwest Region that serves more than 85,000 people. Both the…


Rwanda Flights Policy ‘Working’ but Could Change Trafficking Pattern: UK Official

The UK government’s policy of sending some illegal immigrants to Rwanda appears to have begun to deter people from crossing the English Channel into the UK, but could encourage illegal immigrants to take more dangerous routes, the top civil servant in the Home Office has said. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on April 14 that…


Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From a Helicopter, Eye Witnesses Say

It was a sunny Sunday morning in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Kaduna state, in Nigeria’s northwest region. Rev. Denis Sani, pastor of the Evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5,…


Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From Helicopter, Eyewitnesses Say

It was a sunny Sunday in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Nigeria’s Kaduna state. Rev. Denis Sani, the pastor of the evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5, Sani got news…


Beijing and Chinese Companies Seek to Control Africa’s Rich Lithium and Cobalt Mines

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stepping up its efforts to seize and control Africa’s natural resources. In particular, Chinese companies have accelerated their acquisition of lithium mines as lithium is an essential material used in the production of electric car batteries. A news release published in China’s The Paper last May indicated BYD Company,…


Gunmen Kill Eight, Kidnap 38 in Nigeria Church Attacks: Church Officials

KANO, Nigeria—Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the southwest. The attack occurred during the morning service of a Catholic and…


Gunmen Kill 8, Kidnap 38 in Nigeria Church Attacks: Church Officials

KANO, Nigeria—Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the southwest. The attack occurred during the morning service of a Catholic and…


‘Time to Complete Brexit,’ Attorney General Says After ECHR Grounded UK Deportation Flight to Rwanda

Attorney General Suella Braverman on Saturday said she has “significant reservations” about the UK’s relationship with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). She said it’s “time to complete Brexit and let the British people decide who can and cannot stay in our country.” Her comment came after the European court effectively grounded a British flight deporting…


Building Collapse Kills at Least 6 in Cairo

A building collapsed early on Friday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo killed six people, authorities said, as rescuers at the scene searched through the rubble. It was not immediately known what caused the collapse. The city’s deputy governor, Ibrahim Abdel-Hadi, said in a statement released by the Interior Ministry that one family of six…


French Army Says Killed Close to 40 Militants in Strike in Niger

PARIS—The French army said on Thursday that forces from its Operation Barkhane in West Africa had killed close to 40 militants in a strike near the border of Niger with Burkina Faso on June 14. Following an attack against Niger gendarmes and acting at the request of authorities in Niger, Barkhane forces used air surveillance…