ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian officials said Monday an unspecified number of civilians including children have been “massacred” in what they described as a terror attack on Sunday evening in the Oromia region. Ethiopia’s…
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Malian politician Soumaila Cisse’s captors kept him constantly on the move in the inhospitable desert, he told French television, describing his six months with al-Qaida-linked militants as “near permanent physical and…
BENI, Congo (AP) — Angry residents of the eastern Congo city of Beni burned the town hall and stormed the United Nations peacekeeping mission Monday after rebels killed eight people and kidnapped nine overnight in…
ABUJA – A recent wave of abductions in Nigeria is raising fear across the country. Unlike kidnappings which take on political dimensions — such as those involving militants who agitate against oil companies in the…
Four Turkish nationals have been kidnapped at gunpoint in central Nigeria, police said on Monday, in the latest such incident in the country. Gunmen stormed a bar in the village of Gbale in the state…
Ayoola Ajayi, a 31-year-old Nigerian-born writer, and IT specialist has been charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of 23-year-old MacKenzie Lueck’s body. MacKenzie Lueck was last seen on June 17,…
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Authorities say two Canadian women who were abducted earlier this month in Ghana have been rescued. Ghana’s information ministry says the rescue operation was completed early Wednesday in the south-central Ashanti…
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Authorities in Ghana say two Canadians on an exchange program have been abducted. Police and local media say the two were attending Kumasi Technical University in the West African country’s second-largest…
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Uganda to find the kidnappers of an American tourist who has been freed amid conflicting reports over whether a ransom was paid for her…
Uganda security teams have rescued an American woman and her driver who had been kidnapped by gunmen in a national park. The two “are in good health” and “in the safe hands” of security officials,…