Africa

KADUNA, Nigeria—Communal violence in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna over the last few days has killed 55 people, the local police commissioner said on Oct. 21. Ahmad Abdur-Rahman, in a telephone interview, said the clashes between two communities in the Kasuwan Magani area of southern Kaduna had led to 22 arrests. He did not […]

DAR ES SALAAM—Tanzanian police have arrested 104 suspected Islamic extremists planning to establish bases in neighboring Mozambique, where scores of people have been killed in Islamist attacks over the last year, a senior official said. Forty attacks have been carried out since October 2017 in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, an area near the Tanzanian border […]

ALGIERS—Algerian authorities on Oct. 18 banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision. The country has been split between moderate and more radical forms of Islam since it was plunged into years of civil war in 1992, when a military-backed government canceled elections that an Islamist […]

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not yet need to be declared as an international health emergency said global health officials. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been tracking the outbreak in recent months of what is regarded as one of the deadliest viral diseases known to humankind. On Oct. […]

Stolen profits from business email compromise (BEC) schemes, including the infamous “Nigerian” email scams, have grown exponentially across the globe over the past decade. From January 2015 to February 2017, identified losses from such scams had increased 1,300 percent, totaling over $3 billion globally. By May 2018, the losses had grown to $12.5 billion, according to the FBI’s IC3 (Internet […]

LONDON—A Nigerian politician who was jailed in Britain for laundering tens of millions of dollars in stolen public funds through British banks and properties lost an appeal against his conviction in London on Oct. 17. The Court of Appeals ruling against James Ibori, a former governor of oil-producing Delta state in southern Nigeria, is a […]

VULINDLELA, South Africa—Sweat streams from the young men’s faces as they pursue a soccer ball across a sun-baked pitch of red dust. In the crowd of spectators is Gethwana Mahlase, a veteran HIV counselor. “Those boys, by the time they get to 30, one in three will probably be infected with HIV,” she said, her […]