US ensuring apostate woman can leave Sudan

The United States is working with Khartoum authorities to ensure that a woman sentenced to be executed for converting from Islam is allowed to leave Sudan. After her death sentence was annulled and she was freed on Monday, Meriam Ibrahim Ishag was arrested yesterday when she tried to leave the country. Her Muslim father abandoned […]

Boko Haram kidnap more young women

Terror group Boko Haram’s kidnapped more than 90 people in Northern Nigeria. The abduction follows Boko Haram’s seizure of more than 300 schoolgirls in April that raised an international outcry. More than 60 women and girls have been abducted by Islamist militants from a cluster of villages in northern Nigeria. The Boko Haram terrorists have […]

AU summit starts in Equatorial Guinea

African leaders have gathered in Equatorial Guinea for the 23 summit of the continental body. Former president Thabo Mbeki’s report on the illicit financial outflow from Africa will feature prominently on the agenda which will be dominated by terrorism and conflict in the 54 member states. Yet again President Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s getting an opportunity […]