What is going on in Sambisa Forest? Bring Back Our Girls
VENTURES AFRICA – Perhaps it was the brazenness of the act and the number of victims that warranted international attention and support, but when 276 girls were forcibly taken from their school in Chibok, there was a global outcry and campaign for recovery and justice, represented by the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. The case of the missing […]
Report: Ebola Survivors Can Transmit Virus Through Sex
U.S. health officials say Ebola survivors can spread the disease through unprotected sex many months after being declared free of the virus.In a report Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detailed the case of a 44-year-old Liberian woman who is believed to have contracted Ebola through sexual intercourse with an Ebola survivor. The […]
Boko Haram trained by Islamic State militants says Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says fighters from insurgent group Boko Haram have traveled to the Middle East for training with Islamic State militants.Jonathan declined to name the countries where the fighters were allegedly trained. But in an interview, he said he’s long suspected Boko Haram of having alliances with international extremist groups. “So we know […]
Boko Haram promise to disrupt Nigeria’s general election
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau vowed to disrupt Nigeria’s general election in a new video released on Tuesday, after two suicide attacks in the northeast blamed on the Islamists killed 38 people.“This election will not be held even if we are dead. Even if we are not alive Allah will never allow you to do […]
More than 300 Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria
More than 300 Boko Haram fighters have been killed in military operations in north-east Nigeria, the army says.A number of militants had also been captured and weapons and equipment seized, defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said.Two soldiers lost their lives and 10 were wounded during the operation in Borno state, he added. The deaths have not […]
President Obama to recall U.S. troops deployed in West Africa to fight Ebola
President Barack Obama is set to announce on Wednesday that he will bring back nearly all of the 1,300 U.S. troops deployed in West Africa to fight the Ebola epidemic by April 30, the White House said late on Tuesday. Obama, who was excoriated last fall for a slow start to his Ebola outbreak response, […]
Nigeria postponing presidential elections because of Boko Haram
Nigeria is postponing presidential and legislative elections until March 28 because security forces fighting Boko Haram extremists cannot ensure voters’ safety around the country, the electoral commission announced Saturday in a decision likely to infuriate the opposition.Officials in President Goodluck Jonathan’s government have been calling for weeks for the postponement, saying the commission is not […]
Boko Haram attacks Niger as they are estimated to have Up to 6,000 fighters
The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has attacked a town in Niger for the first time, witnesses say.Niger’s government said it killed more than 100 of the group’s fighters as it repulsed the attack on the border town of Bosso. The group reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on the town […]
The first large-scale trials of an Ebola experimental vaccine begin in Liberia
The first large-scale trials of an experimental vaccine against Ebola are due to begin in Liberia.The potentially preventative medicine was taken under strict security to a secret location in the West African country.Scientists aim to immunise 30,000 volunteers, including front-line health workers.More than 8,500 people have died in the Ebola outbreak, the vast majority in […]
Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram?
Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram – which has caused havoc in Africa’s most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions – is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.Its followers are said to be influenced by the Koranic phrase which says: “Anyone who is not governed by what […]
