Africa

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, has expressed its strong condemnation of the cowardly terrorist act that killed innocent people in a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, calling on the responsible authorities to activate their efforts to…

Al-Qaida and ISIS extremist groups are driving insecurity in central Mali and continue to clash near populated areas in the northern Gao and Menaka regions, the U.N. chief said in a new report circulated Monday. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “the…

Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food and nutrition analysis carried out twice…

Suspected militants abducted roughly 60 women in insurgency-wracked northern Burkina Faso, local officials and residents said on Sunday. Roughly 40 were seized 10 kilometres southeast of Arbinda on Thursday and about 20 others were abducted on Friday to the north…

Hundreds of people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, attended a government-organised rally on Thursday to protest against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. Al-Shabab has been waging a bloody uprising against the internationally-backed central government since 2007, carrying out attacks in Somalia…

Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said Thursday. The attack happened at around nightfall on Wednesday in the village of Goulgountou in Burkina’s Sahel region, when assailants arrived on motorbikes…

At least 61 Al-Shabaab terrorists were killed and dozens others wounded in Somalia after an operation by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), Information Ministry said on Monday. The operation against al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group was backed by Somalia’s…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, called on the transitional authorities in Burkina Faso, where terrorist attacks frequently occur, to expedite a transparent investigation into the killing of 28 people whose bodies were found at the…

Gunmen armed with AK-47 rifles have abducted more than 30 people from a train station in Nigeria’s southern Edo state, the governor’s office said on Sunday, Reuters reported. The attack is the latest example of the growing insecurity that has…

Today, Sunday, Moroccan media reported that a follower of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them) was sentenced to prison in the city of Beni Mellal, Morocco, because of his call for his family to embrace the true Shia belief. The…