10+ hour, 47+ min ago   (414+ words) LAGOS, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Nigerian kidnappers have collected nearly $5.8 million in ransom payments in the last year from civilian abductions, crime that is crippling education and eroding public trust in the government, a security consultancy ​said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s SBM Intelligence…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (539+ words) South Africa is presiding over an international arms-control conference this week, and the timing could not better expose the failure of its restrictive gun control regime. “Some would say South Africa is a product of this agenda,” Brown told the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1317+ words) Exploring the historical and modern conflicts between Islam and Christianity, focusing on immigration and cultural challenges. Islam vs. Christianity, Final Round We are witnessing the final bout of a fight that has gone on for 1,300 years. Since Islam’s inception, it…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (251+ words) TRIPOLI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Libya’s security authorities recovered the bodies of at least six migrants in the southeast of the country after ​their vehicle broke down in the desert, ‌the Alwahat Security Directorate said in a statement on Tuesday. The Directorate…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (213+ words) LAGOS, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered the military and other security agencies on Tuesday to launch an ​immediate rescue operation after scores of ‌people were kidnapped by gunmen in north-central Niger State last week. An armed group posted…...

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2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (489+ words) Attacks are so frequent that the IMO publishes monthly piracy reports. The situation is hardly new. “Thomas Jefferson wages America’s first war on Terrorism,” a Colonial Williamsburg post reminds us. “Jefferson knew firsthand that nothing short of force could change…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (136+ words) Aug 24 (Reuters) – Two UN peacekeepers from Ethiopia were killed and seven other ​people injured in ‌an ambush on Monday in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, bringing to nine the number of ‌peacekeepers ​killed in ⁠the line of ⁠duty this year, the…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (290+ words) DAKAR, Aug 24 (Reuters) – A mission to observe implementation of a ceasefire between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed rebels began on Monday in eastern Congo, the first ​field deployment under a monitoring mechanism established by ‌a Qatari-mediated peace deal signed last year....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (585+ words) KHARTOUM (Worthy News) – Sudanese Christians and their supporters used the United Nations’ annual “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief” on Saturday to condemn what they called a growing wave of killings, abductions…...