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The Christian Association of Nigerian , yesterday, berated the United States Secretary of States, Mr John Kerry over his visit to Nigeria, describing the visit as discriminatory, personal and divisive. The President of CAN, Rev.
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.
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.
A suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Benghazi targeting Libyan troops killed 23 people and wounded dozens of others Tuesday, a hospital official said. The official said the wounded were still arriving at the hospital in the aftermath of the bombing in the al-Qawarsha district on the outskirts of the city, Libya's second largest.
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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.
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.
In the regional context, this is the idea that Kenya is in a class of its own from the rest, and should therefore be judged differently. It is an interesting, and very Kenyan debate.
A man injured during a series of attacks on homeless men in San Diego died at a hospital - bringing the death toll to three, police said. A man injured during a series of attacks on homeless men in San Diego died at a hospital - bringing the death toll to three, police said.
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.
The vote to leave the EU is a rejection of the global neoliberal framework and its devastating impact on British cultural and economic life, writes Ayabonga Cawe. The lesson of Brexit for South Africa is not only in trade and commerce, but in the signal that the legitimacy of an exploitative global system is under question.
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.
U.S. First lady Michelle Obama, left, listens to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, right, after she arrived at the airport in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, June. 27, 2016.
The archivist stumbled across the file in a stack of boxes on the second floor of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. The yellowing letters inside dated back more than half a century, chronicling the dreams and struggles of a young man in Kenya.
Here at Irregular Times, we've been receiving visitors who have been exhibiting a particular paranoia about immigrants from the African nation of Somalia. These visitors insist that Somali-settled communities of the United States have experienced crime spikes.
Cities reduced to rubble, schools and hospitals leveled, prisoners tortured and executed, car bombs exploding. Long lines of refugees, their homes in ruins, stumbling along a road to nowhere with their few remaining possessions carried on their backs.
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.
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.
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.