KAMPALA, Uganda—An explosion at an eatery in Uganda’s capital was an apparent terrorist act, President Yoweri Museveni said on Sunday. Museveni said three people entered the eatery in a suburb of Kampala on Saturday evening and left a plastic bag whose contents later exploded. He provided no more details in a series of Twitter posts…
UN Plane Aborts Landing as Air Strike Hits Ethiopia’s Tigray
ADDIS ABABA—An Ethiopian government air strike on the capital of the northern Tigray region on Friday forced a U.N. aid flight to abort a landing there, the United Nations said. In neighboring Amhara region, people were fleeing intensified fighting. Humanitarian sources and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the area, said a university…
Language War Inflames South Africa Elections
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Nelson Mandela said he “loved” Afrikaans, even though it was the language of the people who imprisoned him for 27 years during apartheid. One of the closest friends he made in prison on Robben Island was a white Afrikaans warder, who Mandela credited with improving his Afrikaans immensely. But now, on the eve…
Vodafone Adds 7,000 Software Engineers to Target Digital Services
LONDON—Vodafone said it would add nearly 7,000 software engineers to its workforce by 2025 to develop more of its own digital services across Europe and Africa. The British company said the investment would enable it to build products and services faster and cheaper in technologies including Internet of Things, smart networks, and cyber security. Chief…
French Army Kills Senior al-Qaeda Member, 4 Other Terrorists, in Mali Airstrike
The French military confirmed on Thursday that an airstrike in Mali last week killed a leading senior member and four other terrorists of the African-based al-Qaeda affiliate Katiba Serma. Nasser Al Tergui was spotted by a drone on Oct. 15 while seated in a vehicle carrying five individuals, according to the French military. The vehicle was…
Stocks Stall, Oil Cools, Evergrande and Lira Fall
October 21, 2021
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LONDON—World stocks slipped on Thursday as the upbeat mood that carried the Dow Jones and bitcoin to records a day earlier ran out of steam, while a pause in the oil rally stalled rising global bond yields. Turkey’s lira was backsliding towards record lows with the central bank expected to chop its interest rates again…
Senegal Seizes Record 2 Tons of Cocaine Off Atlantic Coast
DAKAR—Senegal seized more than two tons of pure cocaine from a ship off its Atlantic coast, the navy said on Tuesday, in the West African country’s largest ever cocaine bust. The 2,026 kg of cocaine was found on a ship 226 miles off the coast by naval forces backed by air support from the French…
Nigeria: Truth Telling Event Marred by Massacre
Warning: this article contains graphic photos. JOS, Nigeria—Before a celebration of conflict reporting could even begin, the tragedy of conflict intruded. Unknown gunmen took the life of a man who has helped support journalists in Nigeria just hours before a press conference aimed at commemorating victims of a massacre and celebrating breakthroughs in coverage of…
Nigerian Military Says Leader of ISIS-Linked Group Is Dead
LAGOS, Nigeria—Nigeria’s military claimed Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the leader of an ISIS-linked extremist group blamed for killing hundreds in the northeast, had died. There was no immediate confirmation from the militants. At a news conference, Nigeria’s chief of defense staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, told reporters: “I can authoritatively confirm to you that Abu…
Mass Kidnappings Bankrupting Nigerian Churches, as Catholic Seminary Is Latest Target
KADUNA, Nigeria—Nigeria’s pandemic of kidnapping for ransom is bankrupting church communities in the nation’s northern states, and despite vows from police to remedy the problem there is no end in sight. In the most recent kidnapping, a gang believed to be Fulani militants struck a Catholic seminary on Oct. 11. The International Committee on Nigeria…
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