KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine was arrested Monday while leading a protest against the detention of many of his supporters in the aftermath of a presidential election. Police arrested Wine near a public square in the capital and then drove him back to his home outside Kampala. “His home is now surrounded by police…
Islamic Terrorists Kill About 30 Soldiers in Northeast Nigeria in Four Days
MAIDUGURI—Islamic terrorists have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and civilian militia sources said on Sunday. Security across Nigeria has been deteriorating in recent months, including in the northeast. Four attacks claimed the lives of at least 27 soldiers and 10 members of the Civilian…
Gunmen Abduct 30 Students in Northwest Nigeria as Payoffs ‘Boomerang’
KADUNA, Nigeria—Gunmen kidnapped around 30 students in an overnight raid on a forestry college in northwest Nigeria, an official said on Friday, the fourth mass school abduction since December in a country where violence is on the increase. An armed gang broke into the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, located on the outskirts of Kaduna…
Uganda’s Bobi Wine Calls for Peaceful Protests After Polls
KAMPALA, Uganda—Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is calling for peaceful protests in the aftermath of presidential elections, charging that electoral authorities are “grappling with forged results” that showed a victory for President Yoweri Museveni. Wine, a singer and lawmaker whose real name is Kyagulanyi Sentamu, spoke on Tuesday, the day after police warned in a…
At Least 39 Die as 2 Migrant Boats Sink Off Tunisia
TUNIS—At least 39 migrants died when two boats sank off Tunisia on Tuesday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Tunisian defense ministry said. The coastguard rescued 165 others, and searches for more survivors are still ongoing off the coast of Sfax, ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said. All…
Dynamite Explosions at Army Base in Equatorial Guinea Kill at Least 15
MALABO—A series of large explosions at a military base that killed at least 15 people in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were the result of negligence related to the use of dynamite, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said. Another 500 people were injured in the blasts that rocked the city of Bata. In a statement carried on…
At Least 20 Killed by Suicide Car Bomb Near Restaurant in Somalia Capital
MOGADISHU—At least 20 people were killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu late on Friday, an emergency services official said. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported. “So far we have carried…
Hundreds of Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Seized in South Africa: Interpol
JOHANNESBURG—South African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol global police co-ordination agency said. This comes after Interpol, which is headquartered in France, issued a global alert in December to law enforcement across its 194 member countries, warning them to prepare for organised…
Nigeria’s Hybrid Threat: Terrorists Allied With Bandits
To talk to Barry Asake today, you would picture a 57-year-old architect working in downtown Washington, D.C. and driving home every day to leafy Bethesda, Maryland—not a man who 90 days ago was hiking 11 hours a day through thorn bushes while guarded by heavily armed bandits. But Asake lives in Abuja, the capital of…
Nigerian Governor Says 279 Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Freed
GUSAU, Nigeria—Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings. The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot, packed into Zamfara state’s Government House conference…
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