Africa

Protests urge Nigerian Shia cleric’s release from jail

Mar 09, 2016 05:43

People have held peaceful demonstrations in Niger and Nigeria to demand the release of imprisoned Shia cleric and leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky.
Egyptian air force kills 17 militants in Sinai Peninsula

Mar 09, 2016 05:39

More than a dozen Takfiri militants in Egypt have reportedly been killed in military assaults against their positions in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt proposes Mubarak’s foreign minister for Arab League

Mar 08, 2016 06:12

Egypt has proposed the last foreign minister under the country’s ousted President Hosni Mubarak as a nominee to head the Arab League.
Armed men kill 12 in Central African Republic

Mar 06, 2016 15:14

Gunmen have killed a dozen villagers in the Central African Republic in the first violent incident since Faustin-Archange Touadera took office as president this week.
Prominent Sudanese opposition leader Turabi dies at 84

Mar 06, 2016 05:18

Sudan’s main opposition Leader Hassan Abd Allah al-Turabi has reportedly lost his life after sinking into a coma and being transferred to a medical center in the capital, Khartoum, in critical condition earlier in the day.
Nigerian protesters call for release of Shia cleric, Zakzaky

Mar 04, 2016 07:14

Nigerians have staged fresh protest rallies across the country to call for the immediate release of jailed Shia cleric and Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky.
Haitians mark anniversary of 2004 US-sponsored coup

Mar 01, 2016 08:46

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Haiti’s capital to mark the anniversary of a US-backed military coup that toppled their elected president over a decade ago.
At least a dozen killed by Ugandan rebels in Congo

Mar 01, 2016 06:52

An attack by Ugandan rebels has left at least 12 civilians killed in a village in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.
Nigerian president 'breaking all rules' against Shias

Mar 01, 2016 06:46

The Nigerian government has broken all the rules through a continued detention of a Shia cleric and many of his followers without charge since late last year, a grassroots Islamic movement says.
‘Military operation kills 100 Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’

Feb 28, 2016 06:45

Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers have conducted a joint operation, killing about 100 members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group while pushing the militants out of a northeastern Nigerian village, a commander says.