First Independent Mena Newspaper
At least 24 people were killed Sunday in a jihadist attack against a Protestant church in Pansi, a village in northern Burkina Faso, according to security and local sources. The pastor of the church was kidnapped by Islamist terrorists. Several people fled to the town of Sebba, where five people, including a pastor, were assassinated […]
At least twenty two people, including 14 children and women were killed Friday in the village of Ntumbo, populated by the English-speaking minority in northwest Cameroon. The majority of children are under 5. The opposition and local NGOs have accused the government and the military, who have been fighting Anglophone secessionist armed groups for three […]
Burundi’s main opposition party, the National Congress for Liberty, known by its French acronym CNL, on Sunday picked the current chairman of the National Assembly, Agathon Rwasa, as its candidate in the presidential election in May. The 65-year-old candidate fought in Burundi’s civil war, as did current President Pierre Nkurunziza. “As we are […]
At least 30 people were killed by a dozen assailants on motorcycles in an attack on two villages in northwestern Nigeria, security sources said. “The bandits killed 21 people in Tsauwa and another nine in nearby Dankar,” said Gambo Isah, spokesman for the Katsina police. “Most of those killed are elderly and children who […]
The Namibian first lady has promised to donate all her wealth to charity when she dies. “I strongly believe that inheritance is one of the biggest drivers of inequality,” First Lady Monica Geingos told Reuters. Monica Geingos plans to leave her wealth, estimated at $3 million, to her One Economy Foundation. The foundation currently lends […]
The UN refugee agency says about 8,000 people have fled from Cameroon into Nigeria in the past two weeks because of an upsurge in violence. According to the UN agency, the refugees had trekked through savannah and forests to reach Nigeria. Some arrived with gunshot wounds. Fighting between Anglophone separatists and security forces flared […]
Morocco’s national airline, Royal Air Maroc, and British Airways have sealed a code-share agreement on the Casablanca-Agadir-London routes operated by the two companies. The deal offers more choices to passengers travelling to London and Marrakesh, says the Moroccan flag-carrier in a press release. Codeshare flights take off on February 20, with RAM due to join […]
At least twenty villagers were massacred in an attack in the Malian village of Ogossagou, in the center of the country, medical sources said Friday. The assault was carried out overnight by around thirty armed men, a few hours after the Malian army withdrew from the locality. Twenty people were killed in an attack overnight […]
Amnesty International called on Friday for an investigation into military operations in northeastern Nigeria, where at least three villages have been razed to the ground by soldiers fighting the jihadists. Attacks have intensified in recent months in northeastern Nigeria, where the Islamic State jihadists in West Africa (ISWAP), a branch of the Nigerian Boko Haram […]
Terrorist elements of the Somali jihadist group Al Shabab set fire to dozens of houses during an attack perpetrated in the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Garissa county, bordering on Somalia. The burned houses belonged to reservists of the national police in Garissa county. According to the police, the attackers first kidnapped two people, […]