Nigeria kills a top terrorist, and the world shrugs

When the Nigerian air force claimed Tuesday that it had "fatally wounded" the leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, the report was met with skepticism and little fanfare. Partly, that's because Nigeria's military has claimed to have killed Abubakar Shekau before - only to have the mastermind behind the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014 resurface in one of his signature videos.

OPINION: We are obligated to build democratic, inclusive societies

We are all ethically obligated to look for a way out that builds democratic and inclusive societies and to reject chauvinists like Donald Trump and Vusi Khosa and President Zuma, says the writer. Picture: Eric Thayer We are ethically obligated to say that, yes, black lives matter, poor people's lives matter, women's lives matter, writes Imraan Buccus I have been watching the aftermath of the local government elections from the United States.

Suicide attacker sets off huge car bomb near peacekeeping headquarters in Somalia

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War crimes court refers Djibouti and Uganda to UN

London, July 18, GNA - The governments of Djibouti and Uganda have been referred by the International Criminal Court to the UN and the ICC's Assembly of States Parties for their failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - who is facing war crimes charges at the court - when he visited these countries. The Sudanese leader, for whom the ICC has issued two arrest warrants, is facing five counts of crimes against humanity, two counts of war crimes and three counts of genocide allegedly committed in the Darfur Region in western Sudan.

Are America’s chickens coming home to roost?

Consider, since 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, an illegal invasion and war crimes in Iraq, beheadings, bombings and forced slavery, terror strikes by drones, cluster and phosphorous bombs, relentless bombing leveling Gaza, Sana'a and Aleppo, lone wolf attacks in Orlando, Dallas and San Bernardino, terror bombings in Baghdad, Beirut, Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Dhaka and Medina, stabbings in Jerusalem and Hebron, slaughter at Mother Emmanuel, despair in Ferguson, Baltimore, the Ninth Ward and Flint, and Herman Wallace, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile.

Heavy gunfire near South Sudan president’s compound, UN site

After a young girl was abducted on the Navajo Nation and found dead near a towering rock formation, tribal officials faced tough questions about why an Amber Alert system proposed years earlier was never implemented. After a young girl was abducted on the Navajo Nation and found dead the next day, tribal officials faced tough questions about why an Amber Alert system proposed years earlier was never implemented.

Conservatives blast Clinton, Obama for ‘tragic failure of leadership’

Two top Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee blasted Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration Tuesday for "a tragic failure of leadership" in the runup to the deaths of four Americans in the U.S. outpost in Libya in 2012. Reps.

Weak Rand Drives South African Corn, Wheat, Soybean to Records

South African grain and oilseed prices surged to records after the rand weakened and international prices increased, making imports pricier just as the country becomes a net buyer of the commodities after a drought damaged local harvests. Yellow corn for July delivery rose 2.7 percent to 3,815 rand a metric ton on the South African Futures Exchange in Johannesburg Monday, the highest level since trading started in August 1996.

Digital campaigns get the vote

USA president Barack Obama is scheduled to serve his last full day in the White House on 19 January 2017. When he looks back at the legacy of his administration, including the elimination of Osama bin Laden, introduction of Obamacare, initial steps towards normalising relations with Cuba, shutting down the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison for "combatants", and many others, are likely to be high on the list of his achievements during his eight-year presidency.

War-weary Somalis flee for Europe as rebuilding too slow

When hundreds of Somalis were reported drowned in the Mediterranean last month, Abdi Deeq didn't rethink his plans to flee the Horn of Africa nation and risk the illicit crossing to Europe. More than two decades of Somali civil war and a bloody al-Qaida-aligned insurgency have left the 22-year-old student with little hope his country is becoming safer or more prosperous.