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Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah

YoopyaMar 3, 2021June 22, 20230

In Iraq’s holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter

Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX

YoopyaMar 2, 2021June 30, 20230

Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed

YoopyaMar 2, 2021June 30, 20230

Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the

Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students

YoopyaFeb 28, 2021June 13, 20230

Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing

Rwandan court rules it can try “Hotel Rwanda” hero

YoopyaFeb 27, 2021June 13, 20230

The terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda can be held in Rwanda, a judge there ruled Friday, rejecting Paul Rusesabagina’s

Ivory Coast 2nd country to receive COVID vaccines via COVAX

YoopyaFeb 27, 2021June 13, 20230

Ivory Coast on Friday became the second country in the world to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX initiative, with 504,000

Nigeria Official: 42 abducted from Nigerian school 2 weeks ago freed

YoopyaFeb 27, 2021June 13, 20230

An official says 42 people including 27 students who were abducted two weeks ago from a school in northern Nigeria have been freed. The chief

Amnesty report describes Axum massacre in Ethiopia’s Tigray

YoopyaFeb 26, 2021June 13, 20230

Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed many hundreds of people, the large majority men, in a massacre late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum in

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abduction

YoopyaFeb 26, 2021June 13, 20230

Gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students

More than 200 groups urge G20 to back IMF issuance to help poor countries in pandemic

YoopyaFeb 24, 2021June 13, 20230

Jubilee USA Network, Oxfam and 215 other civil society groups on Wednesday urged Group of 20 finance officials to back an issuance of $3 trillion