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Dec 7, 2025 - World

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Shock, grief, despair, glory, hope, joy: 2025 was a montage of emotions. Some moments drove us to tears, and some made us jump in glee.

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Gunmen abducted 315 pupils and staff last month from St Mary’s school in Niger state as part of spate of kidnappingsNigerian 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 staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

West African Ecowas forces sent to country after group of soldiers announced dissolution of government on state TVWest African troops were deployed to Benin on Sunday after what the country’s president described as an unsuccessful coup attempt.Benin’s president, Patrice Talon, said on Sunday that the situation was “totally under control” after security forces acted to end a coup attempt by a group of soldiers who attacked state institutions. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

The number of victims killed in an explosion outside a police station in the western Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend has risen to five