Africa

The Nigerian Air Force has rescued 76 kidnap victims, including women and children, after a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in northwest Katsina State, authorities said on Saturday.

Nigeria’s air force says it has killed at least 35 terrorists in air strikes near the Cameroonian border, following intelligence that the group was planning an attack.

As of August 15, 4,323 migrants had arrived on the islands since the start of the year, marking a 77 percent increase.

Michael Sang Correa was sentenced to 810 months in prison for his participation in the torture of numerous victims in Gambia in 2006.

Joseph Kabila is being tried in absentia in a treason case that includes war crimes charges related to his nearly 20-year rule .

Donald Trump has derided the Smithsonian for dwelling on “how bad slavery was”. Historians say the trans-Atlantic slave trade was among humanity’s gravest crimes of exploitation and inequality.

The United Kingdom and 18 African countries carried out the operation dubbed “Serengeti 2.0” between June and August.

The policy of dualism that divided Sudan between south and north, can be attributed as the origin of the division that Sudan experiences today.

The children were seized while travelling on a bus from Kousseri to Maroua and taken across the border to Nigeria.

Residents of Lolldaiga area accused a British army training unit of causing the wildfire that destroyed much of a nature reserve, leaving behind ordnance that injured locals.