Category: Africa

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the latest on the migrant surge and how the White House has responded to the crisis. CLICK BELOW FOR RELATED…

Tunisia’s former premier and general secretary of the Islamist Ennahda party, Ali Laarayedh, seen outside the office of Tunisia’s counter-terrorism prosecutor in Tunis on 18 September (AFP) Tunisia’s opposition condemns…

The cheetah is a flagship grassland species; whose conservation also helps in preserving other grassland species in the predator food chain Seven decades after it was reported extinct in India,…

This photo supplied by Lucapa Diamond Company on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, shows the 170 carat pink diamond, right, recovered from Lulo, Angola. A big pink diamond of 170 carats…

Broken walls at the Kuje maximum prison following a rebel attack in Abuja, Nigeria, on July 6. AP Photo Abuja, Nigeria (AP) — Nearly 900 inmates escaped in a jailbreak…

Burkina Faso is struggling to combat an Islamist insurgency An attack on a village in the West African country has left at least 79 people dead. A violent insurgency has…

Relatives of churchgoers who were attacked by gunmen during Sunday’s church service gather as health workers attend to victims brought in by ambulance after the attack at St. Francis Catholic…

But the Pentagon is deploying fewer this time. U.S. President Joe Biden has approved a Defense Department plan to redeploy American troops to Somalia to shore up counterterrorism efforts against…

The war in Ukraine, who is actually involved there? On the front line, an ominous mercenary force is also said to be fighting for Russia. The so-called “Wagner Group.” Their…

The body of 5-year-old Rayan, wrapped in foil, is retrieved after he fell into a hole and was stuck there for several days, in the village of Ighran in Morocco’s…

The military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré. The announcement was made on state television by an army officer, who cited the deteriorating…

On Monday, footage released by Ethiopian regional state-owned television station, showed the impact of an airstrike in embattled Tigray region. Images of the strike that hit on Saturday a refugee…

An image said to be of a Wagner fighter in Libya. The shadowy group has been involved in a number of countries More than a dozen Western allies have condemned…

Central African Republic forces have struggled on their own to reverse rebel advances This week the European Union imposed sanctions on the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organisation accused of…

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he speaks during a press conference in London, Saturday Nov. 27, 2021, after cases of the new COVID-19 variant were confirmed in the…

FILE – A baby cries as her mother receives her Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19, in Diepsloot Township near Johannesburg Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. A new COVID-19 variant has been detected…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A Danish frigate has killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish military said on…

In this image made from video on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, Guinean President Alpha Conde sits on a sofa in an unknown location. Footage posted on social media showed Guinea’s…

© Reuters/HANDOUT FILE PHOTO: Alexanda Kotey, who the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) claim is a British national, is seen in this undated handout picture in Amouda WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A British-born…

Foreign ministers Lapid (L) and Bourita in Rabat. Photo: Jalal Morchidi/Anadolu Agency via Getty CASABLANCA, Morocco — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a press conference on Thursday that…

A BBC investigation has revealed the scale of operations by a shadowy Russian mercenary group in Libya’s civil war, which includes links to war crimes and the Russian military. A…

FILE PHOTO: Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of two military coups and new interim president, walks during his inauguration ceremony in Bamako, Mali June 7, 2021. REUTERS BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali’s interim…

A police officer detains a suspect during a protest, as violence following the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma spread to the country’s main economic hub in Johannesburg,…

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, is reported to have died — but the militant group is yet to comment on the claims. The Islamic State West Africa Province…

Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.…

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The young man wore red-and-white-soled sneakers for what proved to be his fatal final journey. The shoes were still on his feet when Spanish rescue workers…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdelmadjid Tebboune over phone speak about Israeli attacks on Palestinians, discuss bilateral issues ANKARA The Turkish and Algerian presidents over the phone on Wednesday discussed strengthening cooperation…

FILE – In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 file photo, Chad’s President Idriss Deby Itno, center-right, meets with French Defense Minister Herve Morin, center-left, in N’Djamena, Chad. N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP)…

South African Adrian Nel is one of the victims of a brutal insurgency being waged by militant Islamists in northern Mozambique. Dozens of bodies have been seen but few details…

This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows the Amarula Palma hotel, center, with its helipad below left, in Palma, Mozambique, on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. An estimated 200 Mozambicans…

© Suez Canal Authority, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Ever Given on Monday after it was partially refloated. The mammoth cargo ship blocking one of the world’s most vital…

School uniforms hang in the deserted dormitory of the Government Girls Science Secondary School at Jangede, Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria, where more than 300 students were kidnapped by gunmen…

FILE – In this Dec. 26, 2019 file photo, Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia. The motorcade of the interior minister of Libya’s…

FILE PHOTO: Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, enters the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 6, 2016. REUTERS THE HAGUE (Reuters)…

NIAMEYNIAMEY (Reuters) -One hundred people were killed on Saturday in attacks on two villages in western Niger, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said following one of the deadliest days in recent…

A picture taken on Nov. 22, 2016, shows an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine at Israel’s naval port in the Mediterranean city of Haifa. Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images. Israel reportedly…

An F/A-18E Super Hornet launches off of the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) to provide close-air support to Operation Octave Quartz. (U.S. Navy) Fighter aircraft…

FILE – In this Dec. 22, 1988, file photo police and investigators look at what remains of the nose of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland. The…

FILE PHOTO: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about an agreement between Israel and Sudan on steps toward normalization of relations in…

FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a media conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, October 29, 2018. Michel Euler/Pool via REUTERS ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ethiopia’s…