An airstrike launched by the Ethiopian military has struck the northern parts of Tigray, announced Reuters on Sunday. This was the second attack in just a day, and a clear sign that the government’s nearly two-week-long campaign against the region—and the rebellious forces controlling it—is not about to cease. Instead,
At least 65 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kandahar on Friday, reports an attendee of a burial ceremony held for the victims on Saturday. “The prayer had ended. We were preparing to leave the mosque when we heard gunfire outside” claimed one witness who
Five more students abducted from their schools by gunmen in Nigeria have been released, reported a correspondent at Reuters early on Saturday morning. Since December of last year, upward of 1000 students have been kidnapped in northwest and central Nigeria. Many are still being held in captivity, including 136 children
The presence of Turkish settlers in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) has long been a divisive issue. The dust had barely settled on the Greek coup of 1974 – a militaristic intervention carried out in the name of enosis, a political ideology demanding the unification of Cyprus with
