As Europe looks to expand its borders further - with deals struck or being considered in Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania, and Senegal – @guypeterson_ and I went to Agadez, the sort of ground-zero for these policies that build a wall far beyond the EU's borders https://t.co/4q46pHGBZO
NEW: An international coalition of lawyers filed a complaint Friday with Africa's top human rights body to halt US deportations to Equatorial Guinea, which has served as a waystation for sending people home to countries where they fear persecution https://t.co/48ErsEveTB
Nigeria's National Museum Lagos is putting some objects within reach - literally, with visitors able to touch and feel 16th-century engraved elephant tusks.
Part of a wider campaign that has embraced social media and driven youth visitors, @AFP reports https://t.co/Q5YwU26WdX
British multinational Shell continued operating a major oil pipeline in Nigeria for years even though it knew it was causing widespread pollution - despite a warning from its own staff and its own technical standards, internal documents show https://t.co/6q0C2rgDRt
ISWAP announced through their unofficial media that all routes of "hijrah" meaning migration for foreign fighters to ISWAP are now closed due to "attacks of the American dogs and the apostates of Nigeria", and that the situation is too dangerous.
I don't have the impression that the trial has shed much light on this terrible massacre, unfortunately. And this is partly what trials are for too: establishing solid, shared understandings about serious traumatic events to help society reflect and heal.
Despite the conviction, many questions remain around the attack, which no armed group claimed at the time.
Four years later, others wanted in the case remain at large, according to the charging documents, and those convicted Wednesday said they were tortured in DSS custody
A Nigerian judge on Wednesday found four men guilty in a high-profile terrorism trial over a 2022 church massacre, while acquitting the fifth
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@AFP Ghana since last year has been taking west Africans temporarily before sending them to home countries, including people who US immigration judges found would face persecution in their origin nations https://t.co/r4KdFChXy1
Unbelievable that Mamdani has gotten flak for skipping a parade that Smotrich—who is proudly overseeing the West Bank’s ethnic cleansing and annexation—and Eliyahu—who suggested nuking Gaza and bombing humanitarian aid—are marching in.
@AFP Ghana since last year has been taking west Africans temporarily before sending them to home countries, including people who US immigration judges found would face persecution in their origin nations https://t.co/r4KdFChXy1