Africa
Nigeria: Shocker – Pastor Provides Gun for Our Operations – Kidnap Suspects
Solomon Eze, a 30 year-old pastor, who is currently cooling off at the dreaded cell of the special anti-robbery squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos over an alleged case of armed robbery
South Sudan Official Defies Orders and Weds ‘Underage’ Girl
Juba — Kajo Keji County commissioner, Ben Yengi, is reported to have ignored an order from the Central Equatoria government and gone ahead his marriage to a school girl who
Eritrean: Persecuted Christian Dies in Prison
Another Christian has died while in detention in Eritrea, Open Doors learned last week. This report follows several others in recent months. Sources reporting the death indicated that about 45
Uganda: Wedding Flops Over Missing Baptism Cards
By Samuel Balagadde and Norman Katende An elderly couple is still in shock while relatives and friends are frustrated, after the wedding that they planned for months flopped following the
Nigeria: 1000 Couples Tie Knot in Kano Mass Wedding
Kano — Kano State Hisbah Board yesterday married off 1,000 couples in the third batch of the Kano State sponsored mass wedding of divorces, widows and spinsters as part of
Nigeria: Kaduna Donates N4 Million to Burnt Baptist School
By Sunday Isuwa, Kaduna — Kaduna State Government, through the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has donated relief materials worth N2 million and additional cash of N2 million to the
Africa: Babies Dying Gets Me Where It Hurts
By Juanita Williams Johannesburg — “Eight thousand newborn babies will die during this conference.” That statement by Karen Bell, facilitator and journalist at the first Global Newborn Health Conference last
Calls for Côte d’Ivoire government to tackle unrest in west
ABIDJAN, (IRIN) – After recent attacks in Côte d’Ivoire’s volatile western region in which more than a dozen people were killed, the authorities announced new security measures, but observers say
Nigerian: Islamists got $3.15 million to free French hostages
By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram was paid an equivalent of around $3.15 million by French and Cameroonian negotiators before freeing seven French hostages this
Nigeria: Leader of Pentecostal Christians Cautions Jonathan On Amnesty for Boko Haram
The Nigerian cleric urged the government to compensate victims of insurgents’ attacks. The National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Felix Omobude, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to
