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Police in Nigeria has mounted a search for some 21 people abducted by gunmen while working on farmland whose owner is believed to have owed the alleged kidnappers coerced payments. The people kidnapped were teenagers working on a farm in the remote Faskari council area of Katsina state when the gunmen “singled out the farm and abducted them,” Katsina police spokesperson Gambo Isah said on Thursday “According to our investigation, the bandits placed some levies on some of these farmers, and this particular one refused to comply with their demands. … That was why they went to their farm and…

The United Nations has warned that nearly eight million people in South Sudan, or two-thirds of the population, are at risk of food insecurity and famine. “Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise in flood-, drought- and conflict-affected areas of South Sudan, and some communities are at risk of famine unless humanitarian assistance is sustained and climate adaptation measures are strengthened,” the new report released on Thursday said. The joint report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the U.N. Children’s Fund (Unicef), and the World Food Programme (WFP) says the proportion of people facing high levels of food…

The United States has announced that it will pay a total of $36 million to the city and state of New York for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. The two men were cleared in 2021 after serving 20 years each for the killing. The lawyer David Shanies, defender of Muhammad Aziz, 84, and the family of Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, confirmed in an email to AFP on Sunday evening that an “injustice (had been) recognised today and a modest step is taken to correct it. The New York Times reported that the city’s legal department had earlier…

Three members of the Central African armed group 3R (Return, Reclamation and Rehabilitation) were sentenced to prison Monday. The sentences range from 20 years to life for “crimes against humanity” in a first verdict by the Special Criminal Court (SCC), a hybrid court of local and international judges. Issa Sallet Adoum, Ousman Yaouba and Tahir Mahamat accused of the May 21rst, 2019 massacre of 46 civilians in villages in the northwest, were found guilty of, among other things, “murder”, “inhumane acts” and “humiliating and degrading treatment”. The first was sentenced to life and the other two to 20 years in…

The 33rd edition of the Carthage Film Festival kicked off in Tunisia’s capital and will end on November 5. Guests from all parts of the African continent attended the ceremony Sunday. As the festival celebrated its 60th anniversary, its openness on the Mediterranean and mostly its Arab and African roots were honored. “This event links the north and the south of Africa, and at the same time the Arab world”, Senegalese film critic Baba Diop, journalist and film critic says. “The Sahara has always been considered a border in Africa, separating North Africa and “sub-Saharan” Africa, but today, with this…

The Nigerian army has repelled an attack on a military base in western Nigeria where nearly 1,700 jihadists are being held, killing eight suspected insurgents affiliated with the Islamic State group, two military sources said Monday. Dozens of Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) fighters tried to break into the Wawa military base in Niger state near the border with Benin on Saturday to free hundreds of jihadists, the two officers told AFP on condition of anonymity. The attack is a reminder of Iswap’s ability to strike hundreds of kilometres from its northeastern stronghold, where the army is fighting a…

Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. The government put out an appeal for blood donations with dozens of people gathered outside hospitals in the capital Mogadishu, seeking news of family members. In Mogadishu on Saturday, two cars packed with explosives blew up minutes apart near the busy Zobe intersection, followed by gunfire in an attack targeting Somalia’s education ministry. The attack took place at the same busy junction where a truck packed with explosives blew up on October 14,…

The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian capital to leave due to heightened fears of a terrorist attack as it repeated a warning for all Americans to reconsider travelling to any part of the country and not to visit Abuja at all. The announcement came just two days after the department said it would allow nonessential personnel at the embassy in Abuja to depart voluntarily due to elevated security concerns. It did not provide details but the change suggested the U.S. has indications that an attack may be imminent. “The department (has) ordered…

At least six schoolchildren from 3 different schools tested positive for the Ebola Virus in Kampala Uganda, with one of them losing the battle to the disease that has been on the rise in the country. Ugandan Minister for Health Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists on Wednesday six children who hail from the same neighborhood were from an earlier contact that succumbed to the virus. “These learners attended three schools in the Rubaga division. We have listed 170 contacts from these schools for follow up.” Says the Minister Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng. Aceng also blamed the escalation of the…

A bone infection brought Carlos and Evadula together in Germany. The young Angolan spent two years at the NGO Friedensdorf International headquarters, but now he returns home. Besides the free treatments, the two young people shared personal experiences. Carlos took a lot of things in his luggage, some given to him by Evadula from Afghanistan, in this long awaited return to his family. “I suffered a lot with this boy. He went to Germany, stayed there for one year, there they straightened one foot, another foot, he came back, but it wasn’t finished. So he stayed here for two years…