Eleven Nigerian military personnel are reportedly still in Burkina Faso days after their plane made an “unauthorised” landing in the south-west city of Bobo Dioulasso, despite earlier suggestions they had been freed, deepening confusion about the diplomatic standoff. Burkinabé authorities told the B
Read more: Fate of 11 Nigerian Troops Unclear After Landing in Burkina FasoAuthorities in Burkina Faso have released 11 Nigerian military personnel held after a cargo plane from Lagos made an “unauthorised” emergency landing in its second largest city, Bobo-Dioulasso. The breakaway regional Association of Sahel States (AES) said on Monday that the C-130 aircraft had entere
Read more: Burkina Faso Frees 11 Nigerian Troops After Unauthorized LandingWatch: Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coast US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government. "We have just seized a tanker on the co
Read more: US Announces Seizure of Oil Tanker Near VenezuelaAbout 200,000 people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Rwanda-backed rebels march on a strategic eastern town just days after Donald Trump hosted the Rwandan and Congolese leaders to proclaim peace. The UN said at least 74 people had been killed, mostly civilians, and
Read more: 200,000 Flee as M23 Advances Toward Uvira After Washington PactUS President Donald Trump has criticised European leaders as "weak" and suggested the US could scale back support for Ukraine. In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, he said "decaying" European countries had failed to control migration or take decisive action to end Ukraine's war with Russia, ac
Read more: Trump Criticises European Leaders and Questions Ukraine SupportWhite supremacist ideology and false claims that South Africa’s Afrikaner minority is being racially persecuted pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and national security, the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has warned. Since taking office for his second US presidential term in January,
Read more: Ramaphosa: Myths of Afrikaner Persecution Threaten South AfricaNigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of another 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear. In November 315 students and
Read more: 100 Nigerian Schoolchildren Freed; 165 Still HeldFresh fighting in eastern DR Congo has forced hundreds to flee across the border into Rwanda, a day after a peace deal was signed in Washington DC. Thursday’s agreement was meant to stabilise the resource-rich east but it has had little visible effect on the ground so far, in an area plagued by conf
Read more: Hundreds Flee DR Congo Fighting Despite Washington Peace DealThe US is considering a much broader range of sanctions on the belligerents in the war in Sudan, in a tacit acknowledgment of the inability of the US envoy Massad Boulos to persuade the parties to accept a ceasefire. Last week Donald Trump announced that work had begun to end the war after a persona
Read more: US Considers Wider Sanctions as Sudan Truce CollapsesMark Savage Music correspondent Watch: Which countries are boycotting Eurovision and why? Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete. They were among a number of countries who had called for Israel to be excluded ov
Read more: Several broadcasters to boycott Eurovision over Israel decisionReuters US special envoy and the US President's son-in-law Jared Kushner attended talks in Moscow this week US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet the head of Ukraine's national security council, Rustem Umerov, for talks in Miami on Thursday, the White House has confirmed. The meeting comes after
Read more: US and Ukraine Negotiators to Meet in Miami After Moscow TalksDonald Trump on Tuesday called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should be sent back home in a rant that came as the administration is reportedly increasing immigration enforcement against undocumented Somalis in Minnesota. In a xenophobic rant during a cabinet meeting, Trump went off on Som
Read more: Trump denounces Somali immigrants as Minnesota enforcement ramps up
