NAIROBI—A Kenyan serving a 41-year sentence for involvement in one of the country’s worst militant attacks escaped from a maximum-security prison on Monday, along with two other inmates detained for terrorism-related offences, authorities said. In a statement, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations named one of the escapees as Mohamed Ali Abikar, sentenced to 41 years…
Gadhafi’s Son Announces Candidacy for President of Libya
CAIRO—The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising, submitted his candidacy papers in the southern…
Rights Activists Petition Blinken to Help Free Epoch Times Reporter in Nigeria
November 14, 2021
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AfricaAnthony BlinkenLuka BinniyatNigeriaSave the Persecuted ChristiansTom Lantos Human Rights CommissionWorld
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On Nov. 15, the 40th anniversary of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a petition to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for his help to free a Nigerian contributor to The Epoch Times. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission also will hold an event to call attention to the arrest of journalists….
Rights Activists Petition Blinken to Help Free Nigerian Reporter
November 14, 2021
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AfricaAnthony BlinkenLuka BinniyatNigeriaSave the Persecuted ChristiansTom Lantos Human Rights CommissionWorld
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On the 40th anniversary of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a sign-on petition to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is calling for his help to free a Nigerian contributor to The Epoch Times. That day the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is also holding an event to call attention to the arrest of journalists….
Douglas Burton on Arrest of Epoch Times Reporter Luka Binniyat and Mass Killings of Christians in Nigeria
“They charged the man in a court that doesn’t have authority to give him cash bail… So now he’s in the Kaduna prison, which is a very awful place to be.” One week ago, Epoch Times reporter Luka Binniyat was arrested in Nigeria, after extensively reporting on atrocities against Nigerian Christians. His most recent story…
Viasat Opens Real-Time Earth Ground Station in Africa
Viasat Inc., a global communications company headquartered in Carlsbad, California, has opened its first Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Africa, located in Accra, Ghana. What Happened Viasat has partnered with the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, a government-based institution under Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, on the new station, which will provide Ground-Station-as-a-Service (GSaaS) capabilities…
West Should Sanction Nigeria’s Genocide: Bernard-Henri Levy
WASHINGTON—Targeted sanctions against the Nigerian government for allowing mass slaughter should be a Congressional agenda, according to a celebrated French war correspondent. Bernard-Henri Levy, renowned French philosopher and rights advocate was on Capitol Hill recently to stir the conscience of the West regarding genocides past and present, chief among them, today’s war on Nigerian Christians….
‘Tectonic Shift’ in S. African Politics Accompanies Move to ‘Green Energy’
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—There it was on South African TV screens on the morning of Thursday Nov. 4, a day that could yet signify a pivot—for better or worse—on the tumultuous axis of one of the world’s youngest, but troubled, democracies. As results from local government elections held on Monday rolled in, the shock began sinking…
Fire Sweeps Through School in Niger, Killing 20 Children
NIAMEY, Niger—More than 20 children were killed and dozens more injured when a fire swept through a school in Niger’s second-largest city, Maradi. Three classrooms made of straw were consumed by the fire at the pre-school and primary school called ‘AFN’, taking the lives of the children aged between 3 and 8, the government said…
Kenya Court Says Slain Olympian Tirop’s Husband Must Take Mental Health Test
ELDORET, Kenya—A Kenyan court on Tuesday ordered the husband of slain Kenyan Olympian Agnes Tirop, who has been arraigned on suspicion of her murder, to undergo a mental health test before entering a plea, which he will do on Nov. 16, court officials said. Tirop was found stabbed to death in her home in the…
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