Category: Africa

Kidnappers in Nigeria Demand Ransom to Release 80 Schoolchildren

KADUNA, Nigeria—Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release. The attack on the Bethel Baptist High School in the state of Kaduna was the 10th mass school…


Fulani Terrorists Murder 22 Unarmed Farmers in Kaduna State, Nigeria

KADUNA – Having mowed down large swaths of ripe crops in the predawn of Aug. 3, armed assailants stormed into four villages in Southern Kaduna state, central Nigeria, killing 22 and burning down 134 houses, according to Kaduna State Police. Kaduna State shares a border with Plateau State to its east. The area inhabited by the Chawai Chiefdom…


Truck Collides With Bus in Mali, Killing 41

BAMAKO—Forty-one people were killed in a road accident in south-central Mali on Tuesday, when a truck carrying goods and market workers collided with a passenger bus, the transport ministry said. State broadcaster ORTM reported that the truck’s driver lost control after a tyre burst and the vehicle swerved into the path of the bus. The…


Sling Shots Defend Against Terrorists’ AK 47’s in Nigeria’s Plateau State

Civilians with sling shots and homemade shotguns are scrambling to repel terrorists with assault rifles in Nigeria’s north, according to a leader of the group that saw action the night of July 31. “We laid in the grass firing stones with our slingshots and firing the few Dane guns [shotguns] in our possession to scare…


Rescuers Pull 394 Migrants From Dangerously Overcrowded Boat Off Tunisia

ABOARD SEA-WATCH 3, Mediterranean—Two humanitarian rescue ships pulled 394 migrants from a dangerously overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight on Sunday in an operation lasting about six hours, a Reuters witness said. Sea-Watch 3, a vessel run by German NGO Sea Watch, and Ocean Viking, run by European charity SOS Mediterranee, rescued the migrants…


Joint Terror Attacks Kill Scores in Nigeria Amid Charges Authorities Stood Down

The gunmen came after dark and killed residents with impunity for hours, according to Aya Bitrus, who narrowly escaped death from the Muslim terrorists. “They entered our villages after dark shouting “Allahu Akbar” [Allah is great]. I heard and saw more than 200 Fulani with guns and machetes,” he told The Epoch Times. “They were speaking…


Egypt Officials Say ISIS Attack Kills 5 Troops in Sinai

CAIRO—ISIS terrorist group ambushed a checkpoint in the restive northern part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing at least five troops from the security forces, officials said. At least six other troops were wounded in the attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweid and taken to a military hospital in the Mediterranean city of…


Southern California Nonprofit Brings Clean Water to Malawi, Africa

A Toyota 4×4 minibus displaying the letters WWFA drove along the rocky, uneven terrain of a rural road in the African nation of Malawi’s Thyolo District.  Suddenly, it came to a complete stop. Several passengers wearing purple and grey t-shirts sporting the same letters shown on the minibus—an acronym for the nonprofit Water Wells for…


US 4×400 Mixed Relay Team Reinstated to Final

TOKYO—The United States’ mixed 4×400 meter relay team has been reinstated into Saturday’s final due to an official’s error, a World Athletics spokesperson said, after they were disqualified on Friday for exchanging the baton outside the changeover zone. The American team, comprising Elija Godwin, Lynna Irby, Taylor Manson and Bryce Deadmon, were reinstated by jury…


Cameroon Reels From Fresh Islamist Attack That Killed 13 Soldiers

The news came hard for the Aoudou Man family, always fearful of news about Islamist militant attacks in northern Cameroon. That’s because two sons from the family have been serving in the Cameroonian army, fighting militants of the Nigerian-based islamist terror group, Boko Haram. Their fear was realized over the weekend of July 23 with…