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Women and children who were held captive by islamic extremists, and rescued by the Nigerian army, are seen upon arrival in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, May 20, 2024. Hundreds of hostages mostly children whose mothers were held captive and forcefully married by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria have been rescued from their key forest enclave and handed over to authorities, the West African nation's army said late Monday. (AP Photo/Jossy Olatunji) Hundreds of hostages, mostly women and children, are rescued from Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of hostages, mostly children and women, who were held captive for months or years by Boko Haram extremists in northeastern Nigeria ha... (photo: AP / Jossy Olatunji) Wtop
Africa   Boko Haram   Nigeria   Photos  
Landscape of safari with cow and herder Demise of rangelands 'severely underestimated': Report
From camel drivers in the Sahara to nomads on the Mongolian steppe, traditional herders the world over rely on earth's wildest open spaces to support an ancient way of li... (photo: Creative Commons) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Desertification   Environment   Photos  
Police clash with protesters outside a court house in Kalamata, southwestern Greece, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Nine Egyptian men go on trial in southern Greece on Tuesday, accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants and sent shockwaves through the European Unions border protection and asylum operations. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Trial over Mediterranean migrant deaths opens in Greece
The trial of nine accused smugglers has opened in Greece, nearly a year after a migrant trawler with hundreds on board sank off the country's coast in one of Europe's dea... (photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis) RTE
European Union   Greece   Migrants   Photos  
Congolese security forces secure the streets of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday May 19, 2024, after Congo's army said it has Who was behind the DRC’s attempted coup, and were Americans involved?
The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) threatened a coup against the government of President Felix Tshisekedi in the early hours of Sunday, the country’... (photo: AP / Samy Ntumba Shambuyi) Al Jazeera
Africa   Congo   Photos   Politics  
US Air Force (US Army) member hands a bottle of water to a local child near Air Base 201, Niger, Jan. 6, 2023 US set to evacuate ‘Illegal’ troops from Niger
The United States says it will pull all its troops out of Niger within the next four months or so after the West African country’s military government ordered them to l... (photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Michael Matkin) Al Jazeera
Africa   Niger   Photos   US States  
South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to school children before a political rally of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Soweto township in Johannesburg, on June 14, 2013 South African court rules Zuma ‘not eligible’ to run for parliament
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running for parliament in next week’s general election. | The Constitutional Court ruled on Monday tha... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay) Al Jazeera
Jacob Zuma   Photos   Politics   South Africa  
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., arrives at Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York 4 big questions as Bob Menendez’s corruption trial enters its second week
First the fireworks, now the smoke. Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial, which began with absorbing and vivid opening statements — both from federal prosecutors and ... (photo: AP / Frank Franklin II) CNN
Bob Menendez   Corruption   Photos   US States  
President William Ruto U.S. Democrats charge disrespect over Kenya leader snub at Congress
Lawmakers from President Joe Biden's Democratic Party on Friday accused House Speaker Mike Johnson of disrespecting Africa after he did not invite Kenyan President Willia... (photo: AP / Sayyid Azim) Raw Story
Kenya   Mike Johnson   Photos   Wikipedia: Joe Biden   joe biden  
FPSO Mystras at work off the shore of Nigeria. A floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore industry for the processing and storage of oil and gas. Three new gas plants set to increase Nigeria’s gas supply by 25% 
Nigeria's President, Bola Tinubu, has launched three gas projects in an effort to develop the country’s critical gas infrastructure. | Nigeria’s President, Bola T... (photo: Creative Commons / Ciacho) Offshore Technology
Gas   Nigeria   Photos