Nigeria authorities say they’ve turned the corner fighting Boko Haram
Two weeks before delayed national elections, Nigerian authorities say they’ve turned the corner in the fight against Boko Haram. Government forces have recaptured the northeastern city of Bama from the insurgents. Boko Haram took Bama six months ago – boosting their six-year-old insurgency to establish a medieval-style Islamic caliphate centred on Borno state. In recent […]
Governor calls Kenyan security hopeless
Days after surviving the sixth of half a dozen assassination bids against him, the governor of northern Kenya’s Mandera county describes the security situation in the area under his control as hopeless. Ali Roba questions why Kenyan soldiers are part of an African Union force propping up the Somali government – leaving their own country […]
More post coup death sentences in Egypt
Fourteen Egyptians have been sentenced to death for their part in violence following the military overthrow of Mohamed Moursi’s democratically elected government. Their sentences, like all capital punishment determinations, are subject to review by the Grand Mufi, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority. The sit-ins that followed Egypt’s military coup in mid-2013 turned violent when they […]
DRC releases arrested US diplomat
Security forces in the DRC have returned to the US embassy in Kinshasa an American diplomat they’d arrested a pro-democracy rally. They’re still holding more than 40 locals and other African activists arrested with the envoy. The US diplomat snagged by DRC authorities is Kevin Sturr who’s driving Washington’s democracy and good governance program in […]