NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Somalia, situated on the Horn of Africa, continues to be one of the most dangerous terrorist havens in the world as the Islamic State and al Qaeda terrorist affiliates continue to kill and extort the nation’s population. In the latest figures, Human Rights Watch says hundreds were killed in 2024, either by …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! JOHANNESBURG: The number of U.S. airstrikes against jihadi terrorists in Somalia has increased more than tenfold under the Trump administration so far this year, compared to missions carried out under President Biden in 2024. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday that it conducted 10 airstrikes in 2024, …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A local Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona is widely expected to retain his council seat in the country’s latest round of regional elections, drawing international attention for a name he says carries no ideological meaning. A longtime member of Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party, he is running again in the Ompundja constituency …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a school last week in Nigeria’s Kebbi state have been rescued, the country’s president announced Tuesday. Gunmen with “sophisticated weapons” abducted the girls around 4 a.m. on Nov. 17, police said at the time, and a statement Tuesday quoted President Bola Tinubu …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Many of the hundreds of children kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria were as young as 5 years old, according to a nun who also described how 50 of the students escaped over the weekend. Mary Barron, the superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA), described …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fifty of the 303 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school on Friday have escaped and are now reunited with their families, officials said Sunday, as schools across Niger remain closed following the attack. The students, ages 10 to 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most Rev. Bulus …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! JOHANNESBURG: The White House has mounted a new verbal attack on South Africa over the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg this weekend. White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly hit back at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa after Pretoria refused to allow a U.S. embassy delegation to take part in the summit’s closing …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gunmen abducted 303 children and 12 teachers in an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in Nigeria. Initial reports indicated that at least 52 had been kidnapped before the tally was increased to over 200 children and then to its final count of 303. Most. Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna said …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped several students and staff from a Catholic school early Friday, marking the latest attack on a Christian institution. Nigerian news outlet Arise TV said 52 children were abducted from St. Mary’s School. The Catholic institution is in Agwara local government’s Papiri community, according to The Associated Press, which …
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing Thursday on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, in what subcommittee chairman Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., described as the “systematic and accelerating violence against predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria.” Members from both parties questioned administration officials and outside experts as witness after witness …
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