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Trump’s threat: We’re monitoring developments in Nigeria – Russia

Russia says it is closely monitoring the situation in Nigeria following the threat issued by US President Donald Trump. Exactly a week ago, Trump had

Fuel scarcity: How jihadists are bringing Mali’s capital to its knees

A months-long siege of Mali’s capital, Bamako, by the al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is testing the resilience of a ci

Terrorism exerting huge toll on people of West Africa – Touray

Omar Alieu Touray, President of ECOWAS Commission, has lamented that terrorism and violent extremism have exerted a huge toll on the socio-economic we

Cameroon’s Biya sworn in for 8th term

Paul Biya, who has been president of Cameroon for 43 years, was sworn in on Thursday for an eighth term, after a contested election that sparked mass

BBC picks holes in data Trump relied on to blacklist Nigeria

The BBC has cast doubt on the credibility of data used to arrive at the conclusion that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria. The religious pers