At least five people were killed and 30 wounded in Kenya on Tuesday when anti-tax protesters attempted to storm Parliament and police responded by firing live ammunition.
The spread of terrorism and Islamic extremism in Africa is a cause of “great suffering and pain” for Christians, per the ACN.
Father Mikah Suleiman was abducted by armed gunmen in northwest Nigeria this weekend, the third such kidnapping of a Christian pastor in the past month.
A Kenyan Interior Ministry official said a force of police officers is finally ready to depart for Haiti after almost a year of hurdles.
The prime minister of Egypt announced this weekend that the government of strongman Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would shut down at least 16 travel companies implicated in sending Egyptians to the Hajj pilgrimage without proper registration, resulting in hundreds dead from heat illness this month.
Nigeria has been experiencing a “surge” in anti-Christian violence, including numerous kidnappings and murders. These are often carried out execution style, according to recent reports.
The death toll in Sudan’s conflict regions continues to rise as junta forces block civilians from receiving food and medical equipment.
A North African beauty influencer died suddenly at the age of 36 after suffering a suspected heart attack while on vacation in Malta.
Police in Nairobi, Kenya, said on Tuesday they arrested over 200 people protesting against proposed tax increases in a finance bill.
South Africa’s new government is a “Government of National Unity” (GNU) between the formerly dominant African National Congress (ANC), the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
The Washington Post is celebrating a man from Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati.
South Africa’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, headed by former president Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday filed a case with the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from taking its seats, because the elections last month were allegedly rigged.
A plane carrying the vice president of Malawi, a southeast African country, and nine other people is reportedly missing.
Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), taking over five rotating “non-permanent” membership slots from Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, and Mozambique.
South Africa’s opposition needs to discover its inner Trump and seize the opportunity to make a deal to take power — before it is too late.
The United Methodist Church lost over a million members in one fell swoop last week, with a large West African conference voting to leave the organization over its acceptance of LGBT clergy and marriages.
President Joe Biden said he would help Africa “build back better” in a second term, if reelected, during an interview on Tuesday.
South Africa’s opposition parties have a chance to take power from the ruling African National Congress (ANC), as the final results appear to show the Democratic Alliance (DA) could have enough votes to form a governing coalition.
South Africa’s ruling ANC faced a search for allies to form a new government after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election.
South Africa’s next government will be a coalition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and at least one opposition party, after the ANC’s collapse in this week’s election, as it failed to win a majority for the first time.
South Africa is still tabulating the votes from its national elections, but it appears at press time that the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
The government of Israel reacted to news that South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), was likely to lose its majority for the first time, by noting the South African government had been a “lawyer for Hamas.”
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), the highest appellate court in the country other than the Constitutional Court, dismissed an appeal this week against a decision that “Kill the Boer” was not hate speech.
South Africans headed to the polls Wednesday for general elections in which the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has a chance of losing power at the national level for the first time since multiracial democracy began in 1994.
South African Jewish leaders slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday for his use of the genocidal chant on Sunday, “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which is a call for the elimination of the State of Israel.
Egypt is preventing Palestinian civilians from escaping the war zone by blocking Gazan emigration, according to Caroline Glick.
President Joe Biden promised to designate Kenya as a “Major Non-NATO ally” during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday.
South Africans will go to the polls on Wednesday, May 29, in what may be the last chance to save their country from the ruin wrought by the so-called party of liberation, the African National Congress (ANC).
An Egyptian government official angrily threatened to abandon Cairo’s mediator role in negotiations between Israel and the jihadist organization Hamas on Wednesday, responding to a report that Egyptian intervention led to the failure of the last round of negotiations in early May.
A consortium of media agencies in Germany and Sweden reported on Tuesday that members of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan security units accused of torturing prisoners are being deployed on dozens of U.N. peacekeeping missions, adding another scandal to a string of embarrassments for the United Nations.
The U.S. and Niger issued a joint statement on Sunday that set a deadline of September 15 for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces.
The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Sunday that a coup attempt in the capital of Kinshasa was thwarted.
Hundreds of Tunisians marched through the streets of Jebeniana on Saturday to protest the presence of sub-Saharan migrants in the country.
Egypt on Wednesday rejected a plan that the Israeli government presented to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”
Nigerian Christians took the streets on Tuesday to protest their government’s incompetence in containing the threat of radical Islamist terrorism, marking the 21st birthday of Christian longtime Boko Haram captive Leah Sharibu.
Switzerland convicted a former interior minister of Gambia over the repression against opponents of its longtime dictator.
The Pentagon has formally ordered all 1,000 American combat troops remaining in Niger to withdraw over the next few months.
A Boeing plane skidded off an airport runway in Senegal on Wednesday, the news coming as controversy mounts over the company’s safety issues.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Friday that American troops are sharing space in Niger with Russian military forces.
