LAGOS (The Daily Beast) — “I was asked to kill my parents on the day I was captured,” said 16-year-old Babagana, a former Boko Haram...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote...
Hippolyte Marboua and Angela Charlton, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with...
(BBC) – Kenya’s interior minister has said security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month. Joseph Nkaisserry, who...
(BBC) – At least 200 Senegalese died in the boat disaster off the coast of Libya earlier this month, officials say. More than 750 migrants are...
(Los Angeles Times) – Another Vietnam. Those two words have become a cautionary mantra over the 40 years since the fall of Saigon indelibly etched...
(BBC) – Nigeria’s military says it has freed another sizeable group of people during its offensive against Boko Haram militants in the vast Sambisa forest. One...
(BBC) – The Nigerian military says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from an area where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is active....
(BBC) – At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration. At the southern tip of the continent,...
(Reuters) – An Indonesian firing squad executed eight drug traffickers, including seven foreigners, in the early hours of Wednesday, sparking condemnation from Australia and Brazil who had made final,...
ERICK KAGLAN, Associated Press LOME, Togo (AP) — Togo’s main opposition leader on Wednesday rejected provisional results that declared the re-election of the president for a...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When Angeline Jackson and a friend were ambushed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted on a wooded trail outside...
BARKING, UK (Politico) — For as long as modern Britons have voted, politics here has revolved around class. But this year, Britain is having its first...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — The unusual announcement by President Barack Obama last week that a U.S. strike on an al Qaida compound in Pakistan inadvertently had killed two...
(BBC) – Burundi has been hit by a new wave of protests as opposition to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term grows. Gunfire was...
Katy Daigle and Binaj Gurubacharya, ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials...
Mohammed Mukhashaf, REUTERS ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) — The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, relief officials said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi...
Daniel Flynn, REUTERS THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (Reuters) — After being repatriated to Senegal on a Spanish military plane having risked his life on a perilous sea crossing...
(BBC) – Suspected al-Shabab militants have abducted and killed a traditional chief in northern Kenya, a local elder says. Chief Muktar Otieno was seized early on...
(Wall Street Journal) – In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers. According to...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
(Smithsonian) – My father, a bookish black man old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Texas while it was still a segregated state....
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press LEE KEATH, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chaos has turned it into a lucrative magnet attracting migrants desperate to make the...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from...
