Africa

China Swoops In to Court Africa After Trump’s Lesotho Joke

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing on Friday that his government will step up investment, financial assistance, and diplomatic outreach to Africa, seemingly seeking to exploit an opening created by reduced foreign aid under President Donald Trump, and a joke Trump told earlier this week that has rubbed some Africans the wrong way.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at a press conference during the ongoing National

U.N. Judge Accused of Tricking Young Woman into Slavery

Ugandan High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe, who sits on a United Nations criminal tribunal, made her first appearance in British court on Thursday to face charges of tricking a young Ugandan woman into serving as her slave while she studied at Oxford.

Lydia Mugambe

Jihadists Behead 70 Christians in DR Congo Church

Open Doors UK, a human rights group focused on persecution against Christians, reported on Tuesday that a militant group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) took 70 Christian villages hostage, marched them into their church, and then murdered them by cutting their heads off.

Members of the Congolese Red Cross carry body bags containing the remains of victims of th

Russia Seeks Red Sea Base in Sudan After Losing Influence in Syria

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Yusuf Sharif told Russian media on Wednesday that an agreement first proposed in 2017 to give Russia a naval base on the Red Sea coast will finally proceed, giving Moscow an opportunity to replace the base it lost in Syria with the fall of dictator Bashar Assad.

Russian corvette Velikiy Ustyug is picture at the Russian naval base in the Syrian Mediter