Nigeria Five men accused of killing 50 worshippers and wounding over 100 others in a terrorist attack on a catholic church in Owo, Southwestern Nigeria in 2022, pleaded not guilty during their arraignment Monday. The defendants – Idris Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik, Abdulhaleem
Togo As insecurity spirals in Togo, the country’s foreign minister says a group affiliated with Al Qaeda has killed at least 54 civilians and 8 soldiers so far this year. The comments to news agency, Reuters, was a rare official acknowledgement of the death toll in attacks. Robert Dussey said there have been 15 incidents […]
DRC Congo The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Monday for a deadly assault on a church in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as mentioned on its Telegram channel. City authorities reported that rebels linked to the Islamic State were behind the killing of atleast 40 people in the attack on the […]
Congo Dozens of people were killed on Sunday in an attack on a church in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo believed to have been carried out by Islamic State-backed rebels. Civil society leaders said suspected members of the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) stormed the building in the town of Komanda, armed with machetes and […]
Afghanistan Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the United Kingdom after a leak of personal information raised fears that the Taliban could target them, the British government revealed on Tuesday. The UK said it is closing the resettlement programme, which a rare court order had barred […]