A suicide bomber in the Somali capital has injured government spokesman and former journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu.Witnesses told VOA Somali that a suicide bomber ran toward Moalimuu’s vehicle in central Mogadishu and detonated an explosive vest.Mo…
BASSA At least 15 people have been reported killed and many others injured in an attack on Ancha village of Miango District in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.The gunmen attacked the community at about 1:00 a.m. Thursday, while residents w…
MOGADISHU, At least eight people were killed as a huge blast went off on a road near the main international airport in the Somali capital.The Islamist terror group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the explosion, saying it was targeting “foreign of…
The U.S. military conducted about half as many airstrikes in 2021 as it did in 2020, a change that defense analysts say is due at least in part to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Biden administration’s emphasis on diplomacy over military force….
ADDIS ABABA — Aid workers and eyewitnesses are telling media an airstrike in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has killed more than 50 people. The Reuters news agency reports at least 30 others have been wounded after a camp for the internally displace…
A bill that would have increased the punishment for homosexual acts in Senegal from 5 years to 10 years will not be voted on, after lawmakers in a parliament committee on Wednesday rejected approving it for a vote by the full legislative body.While pro…
Statement by Kambou Fofana, UNICEF acting Regional Director for the Middle East and North AfricaAMMAN, “In just the past four days – since the new year began – two children were killed and another five were injured in the northwest of Syria as violence…
CAPE TOWN — A fire at the South African parliament caused extensive damage on Sunday, collapsing the roof and gutting an entire floor in one building. A man in his 50s was arrested in connection with the blaze.The fire broke out in the early morning an…
NAIROBI — Kenyan lawmakers brawled Wednesday as they debated proposed changes to a law governing the conduct of political parties and the formation of coalitions ahead of the 2022 election.Video broadcast on television showed lawmakers engaged in a sho…
Human rights groups are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to appoint a special envoy for North Korean human rights, a position that has been vacant since January 2017.The North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 directs the U.S. president to name a pers…
