Tag: Africa

Epoch Times Reporter Charged With Controversial ‘Cyberstalking’ Statute for His Reporting

Embattled Epoch Times reporter Luka Binniyat was charged with cyberstalking the head of Kaduna State Security Tuesday at his arraignment at the Barnawa Magistrate’s Court in Kaduna Nigeria. Human rights advocates say that cyberstalking is a charge often used in Nigeria to silence the press. Mr. Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna State’s Commissioner of State Security filed…


Pistorius up for Parole, but He Must Meet Victim’s Parents

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Eight years after he shot dead his girlfriend, Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole, but first, he must meet with her parents. Pistorius, a world-famous double-amputee athlete who competed at the 2012 Olympics, has been eligible for parole since July after he was convicted of murder for shooting model Reva…


Revisiting the 1950s Mau Mau Insurrection in Kenya

Commentary The Mau Mau uprising happened in Kenya in the 1950s, and revisionist historians have argued that the uprising was a peasant’s revolt to force Kenya’s independence. It resulted in at least 30,000 horrific killings, mostly committed by the Kikuyu, against other members of this tribe and white British settlers. A recently published book challenges…


Backlash Against Critical Race Theory Madness Reflected in Virginia Election

Commentary The election of a Republican governor in Virginia points to a winning formula in the upcoming mid-terms, a key component of which is empowering parents to fight back against Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) indoctrination of their children. Gov-elect Glenn Youngkin’s victory was unexpected because the Democrats had won the governorship of Virginia for the…


Epoch Times Reporter Jailed in Nigeria

Religious freedom advocates in Washington are protesting the jailing Nov. 4 of a reporter at the forefront of reporting atrocities against Nigerian Christians. “This is an alarming development. If a journalist, reporting on the government’s refusal to prosecute those engaged in religious motivated atrocities has been arrested for his report, this would be further evidence…


US Orders Non-Emergency Government Employees in Ethiopia to Leave

NAIROBI—The United States has ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees in Ethiopia to leave because of armed conflict, civil unrest and violence, its embassy in Addis Ababa said on Saturday. Denmark and Italy also asked their citizens in Ethiopia to leave while commercial flights were still available, as rebellious Tigrayan forces and their allies have advanced…


Twelve Arrested After Fleeing Emergency Plane Landing in Mallorca

MADRID—Police in Spain arrested 12 people and were looking for 12 more after a group of passengers fled a plane onto the runway at Palma de Mallorca airport on Friday night, causing the closure of the airport for several hours. The Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul made an emergency landing at Palma…


Fuel Tanker Blast in Sierra Leone Capital Kills at Least 91

Ninety-one people were killed and over 100 wounded in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said. The government has not yet confirmed the death toll, but the manager of the central state morgue in Freetown said it had received 91…


Ninety-Nine Killed in Fuel Tanker Blast in Sierra Leone Capital

FREETOWN—At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. Fuel still appeared to be leaking from the wrecked tanker on Saturday morning as police and soldiers tried to clear large crowds of onlookers…


99 Killed in Fuel Tanker Blast in Sierra Leone Capital

FREETOWN—At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. Fuel still appeared to be leaking from the wrecked tanker on Saturday morning as police and soldiers tried to clear large crowds of onlookers…