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Nigerian troops held in Burkina Faso after ‘unfriendly’ emergency landing
Unauthorised touchdown comes less than 24 hours after Nigerian forces intervened in attempted coup in Benin
Eleven Nigerian military personnel are being held in Burkina Faso after a Nigerian plane reportedly entered Burkinabé airspace without authorisation on Monday, the latest twist in a region enmeshed in multiple political and security crises.
In a statement on Monday evening,
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False claims Afrikaners are persecuted threaten South Africa’s sovereignty, says president
Cyril Ramaphosa says theories, promoted by Donald Trump, ‘conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy’
White supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned.
Since taking office for his second
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Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast
First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC
An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists.
With its palaces, temples and the 130 metre-high Pharos lighthouse – one of the
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Nigerian state secures release of 100 out of 265 kidnapped schoolchildren
Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappings
Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained
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Troops and warplanes deployed in Benin after ‘failed coup attempt’
West African Ecowas forces sent to country after group of soldiers announced dissolution of government on state TV
West African troops were deployed to Benin on Sunday after what the country’s president described as an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Benin’s president, Patrice Talon, said on Sunday that the situation was “totally under control” after security forces acted to end a coup
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‘Very unfair’: Trump threatens extra 5% tariff on Mexico over water dispute
President accuses neighbor of violating treaty governing water-sharing and urges water to be released ‘immediately’
Donald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on Mexico if it does not immediately provide additional water to help US farmers, accusing the country of violating a treaty that outlines water-sharing between the neighbors.
Under the treaty, which
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Family of student deported to Honduras say they were targeted by ICE agents
Father of student detained at Boston airport on her way to visit family in Austin,says agents showed up at Texas home
Immigration agents appeared on Sunday at the Texas home of the family of Any Lucia López Belloza, the 19-year-old college student who was recently deported to Honduras while on her way to visit them for Thanksgiving, her family
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Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic
Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of culture
Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president now in prison for plotting a coup, is getting the biopic treatment.
Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film
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Ex-Honduran president thanks God – and Trump – for drug-trafficking pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández thanked the Lord for being ‘a free man’ and then Trump for ‘changing my life’
Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – in that order – for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by
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US attack on Venezuela risks ‘Vietnam-style’ regional conflict, warns Lula adviser
Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalate
A US invasion or attack on Venezuela could plunge South America into a Vietnam-style conflict,
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