Whoever wins faces the daunting task of feeding the West African country’s poor and navigating the interests of global powers seeking critical minerals, analysts say.

The development carries potential benefits for both sides but still faces stiff international opposition, 34 years after the region broke away from Somalia.

President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.

No group has claimed responsibility for the explosion, which happened on a day when many worshipers attend mosque for Friday Prayer.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, which happened on a day when many worshipers typically attend mosques for Friday prayers.

Detty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, attends for the first time.

The aircraft was on its descent from the mountain when it crashed around the Barafu Camp area in Kilimanjaro National Park, officials said.

The holiday spirit is bringing people together, with celebrations of lights, dance and Santa.

The internationally recognized government of Libya confirmed the deaths of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the army chief of staff, and other officers flying home after a meeting in Turkey.

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.

A spokesman for the Nigerian government said that the “remaining” students from a Catholic school had been freed, but the Diocese said only that a “second batch” had been released.

Around a dozen gunmen opened fire at random at bar patrons. The police said they launched a manhunt to find the unknown assailants.

No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts have reduced U.N. rations.

Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.

Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.

Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum.

Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.