TERNI, ITALY �
Italy’s plan to reduce the risk of a jihadi-inspired attack is pinned in small part on Mimoun El Hachmi, an imam who bikes to the prison here every week and exhorts Muslim inmates not to stray from life’s “right path” or hate people who aren’t Muslim.
Seven inmates
The U.N. said Wednesday it had identified another 38 probable mass graves in central Congo, where violence has killed thousands since August.This would bring the total of mass graves found in the Kasai region to 80, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Con…
JOHANNESBURG �
Zambia’s parliament has imposed a 90-day state of emergency, after the president last week declared the need for one. The situation is likely to deepen the political crisis in the country, and analysts say it also could scare away much needed investors to the copper-dependent, landlocked nation.
The president
GENEVA �
A new report finds more than two billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than twice that number or 4.5 billion people lack safe sanitation. The report by the World Health Organization and U.N. Children’s Fund is the first global assessment of water, sanitation and
Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 19 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths, police in Nigeria said Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack in months in the northe…
ABUJA �
Nigeria’s acting leader says President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return “very shortly” after more than two months in London for medical issues as concerns grow about his health.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo spoke to reporters on Wednesday, a day after meeting with Buhari.
The acting president says Buhari was
HARARE �
Zimbabwean police Wednesday clashed with hundreds of opposition protesters calling for electoral reforms before next year’s polls.
Zimbabwe’s capital city came to a standstill for about four hours Wednesday as opposition protesters conducted running battles with police. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators, who
