In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
November 24, 2025
Gambia said it was temporarily hosting Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary on humanitarian grounds following a contested presidential election in Cameroon last month
November 24, 2025
LAGOS -The kidnapping of more than 300 Catholic school students is the latest such mass abduction in Nigeria.
November 24, 2025
The World Bank lifted Kenya's economic growth forecast for this year to almost 5% on Monday, citing a pick up in the construction sector in East Africa's largest
November 24, 2025
Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the
November 23, 2025
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped and are now with their families
November 23, 2025
Pope Leo asked on Sunday for the immediate release of children and staff abducted this week from a Catholic school in Nigeria, one of the worst mass kidnappings ever recorded
November 23, 2025
Coup-prone Guinea-Bissau voted on Sunday in presidential and legislative elections, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a tight contest to become the first leader
November 23, 2025
Finland's President Alexander Stubb told Reuters in an interview on Sunday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Johannesburg that he thought U.S.
November 23, 2025
Guinea-Bissau has begun counting votes as President Umaro Sissoco Embaló seeks a second term
November 23, 2025
Fifty students escape captors after mass kidnapping in Nigeria but more than 250 still held
November 23, 2025
‘Oh my God, this is our Tanzania’: CNN investigation shows police fatally shooting protesters, signs of mass graves
November 21, 2025
South Africa's trade minister Parks Tau said on Sunday that he expected negotiations with the U.S. over a trade deal would continue, despite differences between the two
November 23, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration is promoting efforts to work with Nigeria’s government to counter violence against Christians
November 23, 2025
Walmart opened its first store in South Africa on Saturday, marking the U.S. retail giant’s debut on the African continent as it seeks a stake in a
November 22, 2025
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by
November 22, 2025
Nigeria is under renewed global scrutiny after gunmen abducted more than 300 students from a Catholic school in the northwest, the second major
November 22, 2025
Armed bandits kidnap more than 300 students from Catholic school in Nigeria
November 21, 2025
Gunmen abducted 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s School in Niger state, Nigeria, according to an updated tally issued Saturday by the Christian Association of Nigeria
November 22, 2025
President Donald Trump says he’s “immediately” ending temporary legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
November 22, 2025
Gunmen have attacked a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers
November 21, 2025
Nigeria has grabbed global headlines again following a spate of attacks by gunmen involving the kidnapping of dozens of students from two
November 21, 2025
World leaders are arriving for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda
November 21, 2025
Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Lubero territory, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central
November 21, 2025
The Indigenous People of Biafra, a separatist group in southeastern Nigeria, remains committed to peaceful self-determination after a court sentenced its leader to life in prison for terrorism
November 21, 2025
Uganda - a landlocked African nation that until recently struggled to get a World Bank loan - is the latest hot destination for
November 21, 2025
Nigerian officials in Washington after Trump’s threats of military action over violence against Christians
November 20, 2025
The United States is considering actions such as sanctions and Pentagon engagement on counterterrorism as part of a plan to
November 20, 2025
The White House has hit out at South Africa’s leader for "running his mouth" over the United States’ boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg
November 20, 2025
A Nigerian court on Thursday sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on all seven terrorism-related charges at the end of a
November 20, 2025
Incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo faces surprisingly strong competition in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election on Sunday, a contest unfolding against the
November 20, 2025
South African authorities say they are planning for multiple protests by local and international activists around this weekend's Group of 20 world leaders summit in Johannesburg
November 19, 2025
President Donald Trump says he's turning his attention to helping find an end to the brutal civil war in Sudan
November 19, 2025
A super-sized World Cup has paved the way for tiny Curaçao and Cape Verde to book their places at sport’s biggest global event next year
November 19, 2025
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November 19, 2025
Greece, long a gateway to Europe for refugees, wants to join several other EU countries in discussing the deportation of rejected asylum seekers to Africa, the Greek migration
November 19, 2025
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -Gunmen have attacked a church in Nigeria, killing at least two people and kidnapping the pastor and some worshippers, police and witnesses said on Wednesday, days
November 19, 2025
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a 53-year-old ex-army general, is seeking a second term in a November 23 vote, but faces 11 challengers in the West African nation with
November 19, 2025
The United Nations is pushing to gain access to al-Fashir, the famine-stricken city in Darfur where witnesses have reported mass reprisals since a takeover by
November 19, 2025
Chinese Premier Li Qiang is making a two-day visit to the southern African nation of Zambia that will focus on the $1.4 billion refurbishment of a Cold War-era railway line to further improve China’s access to critical minerals
November 19, 2025
One of the 25 schoolgirls abducted from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria’s Kebbi state has escaped and returned home
November 18, 2025
A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map intended to flip several Democratic-held U.S.
November 18, 2025
Mali's military and allied militias killed at least 31 people in attacks on two villages in the central Segou region where the main insurgent group linked to al Qaeda operates, Human Rights
November 18, 2025
Global refining margins have hit multi-year highs in November due to sanctions on Russia, refinery outages and
November 18, 2025
Saudi Arabia's defacto ruler Mohammed bin Salman is set to press U.S.
November 18, 2025
Britain's foreign minister Yvette Cooper plans to introduce sanctions relating to human rights violations and abuses in war-torn Sudan, she said on Tuesday, stressing the need for
November 18, 2025
Eswatini has become the first African country to receive lenacapavir, a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection that global health officials call a game-changer
November 18, 2025
The Group of 20 major economies should team up with the International Monetary Fund and others to launch a new debt refinancing plan for low-
November 18, 2025
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo struck a confident note as he kicked off his re-election bid in early November, claiming that "stability has been
November 18, 2025
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has re-appointed his former vice president James Wani Igga to the same position, the state broadcaster said, after dismissing a powerful ally who had
November 18, 2025
Nigeria coach Éric Chelle claims a Congo team staff member used voodoo during the penalty shootout that eliminated the African soccer power from qualifying for the 2026 World Cup
November 17, 2025
Police in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted 25 girls from a high school in the country's northwestern Kebbi state
November 17, 2025
Prosecutors sought a life sentence for a Janjaweed militia leader convicted of atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region, telling the International Criminal
November 17, 2025
Congo and the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 have signed a framework agreement for a peace deal
November 15, 2025
The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed a framework agreement on Saturday for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in
November 15, 2025
S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Nigeria to "positive" from "stable" on Friday, backing the country's ongoing economic reforms, and also affirmed the country's rating at "B-/B".
November 14, 2025
U.S.
November 14, 2025
Tanzania's president promised on Friday to investigate violence during last month's elections and offered condolences to bereaved families, in her most public acknowledgement to
November 14, 2025
Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera will face six rivals in a presidential election on December 28, after a court rejected attempts to bar two former prime
November 14, 2025
The Central African Republic’s top court has cleared President Faustin Archange Touadera to run in December’s election
November 14, 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday South Africa will symbolically hand over the G20 presidency to an "empty chair" in the absence of U.S. leadership
November 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety
November 14, 2025
Members of the U.N.
November 14, 2025
A senior adviser to the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments calling for a halt to the flow of military support coming to the RSF from abroad may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire
November 13, 2025
The funding gap for aid agencies is accentuating Sudan's crisis, leaving them unable to help many of the tens of thousands of people fleeing from the Darfur city of al-
November 13, 2025
The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan's civil war is shifting its focus eastward after consolidating its grip over Darfur last month, reigniting violence and
November 13, 2025
French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday there was a high chance he would visit Algeria, hailing the north African country's release of writer Boualem
November 13, 2025
Mali's foreign minister has dismissed as implausible the notion that jihadists could soon take the capital, in the first extensive government response to security fears that have
November 13, 2025
Tanzania's leader chose a longtime loyalist as prime minister on Thursday, after a disputed presidential election in the East African country prompted clashes in which rights groups say
November 13, 2025
Accused by her aunt at age 13 of being a witch responsible for her family's misfortunes, Faith ran away from her rural home in the southern Nigerian state of
November 13, 2025
There is no genocide in northern Nigeria, the African Union Commission chairperson said on Wednesday, rejecting accusations by U.S.
November 12, 2025
U.N. humanitarian affairs and relief head Tom Fletcher has told The Associated Press that the situation is getting “horrific for civilians” in Sudan
November 12, 2025
South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Bol Mel as vice president and deputy leader of the ruling party, according to a decree read on state television,
November 12, 2025
The family and lawyers of jailed Tunisian opposition leader Jawhar Ben Mbarek accused prison authorities on Wednesday of brutally assaulting him to try to force an end
November 12, 2025
Putin and Modi to discuss Russia-India trade and defense ties amid US pressure
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