Africa

Trump’s Christmas Day Strikes Raise the Question: Why Sokoto?

Taiwo Hassan / Responsible Statecraft Dec 29, 2025 The U.S. hit a majority Muslim area in Nigeria where ISIS has a questionable foothold and Christians are not being killed. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Africa

Trump’s Beef With Nigeria

Yusuf Bangura / Africa Is A Country Dec 1, 2025 Threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

White House Curbs Immigration for 6 Nations in Election-Year Push

COLLEEN LONG and NOMAAN MERCHANT / The Associated Press Jan 31, 2020 Immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania face restrictions in obtaining certain visas, but not a travel ban. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Pope Offers Christmas Message of Hope to a Suffering World

The Associated Press Dec 25, 2019 The pontiff calls for easing of tensions in conflict zones from Syria to Venezuela and spotlights the plight of migrants fleeing injustice. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Jumia’s Stock Listing Spotlights African E-Commerce

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig May 28, 2019 As the first African tech startup on the New York exchange, Jumia is the object of accolades, criticism and even financial suspicion. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Kofi Annan, Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 80

JOHN HEILPRIN and FRANCIS KOKUTSE / The Associated Press Aug 18, 2018 Annan was one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become its first black African leader. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Voices From a ‘Shithole Country’

Gbemisola Olujobi and Patience Ogbo / Truthdig Mar 29, 2018 A Nigerian writer collects reactions from fellow citizens about the Trump slur, and those reactions aren't always what you might expect. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Islamic Extremists Return Girls Kidnapped in Nigeria

HARUNA UMAR and KRISTA LARSON / The Associated Press Mar 21, 2018 The group Boko Haram brings back nearly all of the 110 girls taken from a boarding school last month, and it leaves a warning: "Don't ever put your daughters in school again." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

110 Nigerian Girls Missing After Boko Haram Militants’ Raid

HARUNA UMAR and SAM OLUKOYA / The Associated Press Feb 25, 2018 It's feared that the girls will be forced to become brides of the extremists. The abduction follows a 2014 case in which Boko Haram seized 276 young Nigerian females. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Drought-Stricken African Region May Finally Bloom, Thanks to Incoming Monsoon

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jul 8, 2017 European scientists say there is hope that a parched swath of Africa could suddenly start to receive heavy seasonal rainfall. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. Is a Sorry 36th Among Nations in Quality-of-Childhood Ranking

By April M. Short / AlterNet Jun 19, 2017 For 700 million kids around the world, childhood ends too soon. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Climate Change as Genocide

By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch Apr 23, 2017 Only concerted action on multiple fronts can prevent the human disasters now unfolding in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen from becoming the global norm. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )