In Daura, Nigeria the Koranic and Rehabilitation Centre was recently raided revealing the institution to be more of a “torture house”. The private Islamic boarding school was home to troublesome children, drug addicted young men, or men who have committed petty crimes. The center’s accommodation was made up of six cells where up to 40 “students” were chained inside each… Read more »
A second Ebola vaccine is to be offered to around 50,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a major clinical trial. The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine will be used alongside a vaccine made by Merck, which has already been given to around 250,000 people. Merck’s jab has now been approved by the World Health Organization…. Read more »
Militants in eastern Mali have killed 49 soldiers in an attack on a military post in Indelimane in the Menaka region, the army has said. This makes it one of the deadliest assaults of the past decade. The Islamic State (IS) group said via its self-styled Amaq news outlet it was behind the attack. Mali has suffered violence since 2012,… Read more »
The private Islamic boarding school in Daura, northern Nigeria, was not somewhere you would want a child to stay for more than a few minutes, let alone months or years. The Koranic and Rehabilitation Centre was one of series of institutions raided over the past month where parents have been sending troublesome children and young men who may be addicted… Read more »
Ethiopian running legend Haile Gebrselassie has told the BBC that fake news shared on Facebook was behind violence in which 78 people died. Trouble was sparked when an influential activist from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed said the authorities were endangering his life by removing his bodyguards. The violence had ethnic and religious elements, the government said. Gebrselassie said… Read more »