Johannesburg – Five police officers and one off-duty soldier were killed when a group of men attacked the Ngcobo police station between Mthatha and Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. According to the police, the unknown suspects entered the police station in the early hours of Wednesday morning and without warning, randomly opened fire on the members on duty. “Three members… Read more »
Ethiopia, an opaque authoritarian country where protesters, bloggers and journalists often are jailed, faces uncertainty after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Desalegn’s announcement Thursday came after several years of growing instability and protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions of the country, and what critics call a heavy-handed response from security forces. Some 800 protesters were killed in… Read more »
More than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls are missing after an attack on a boarding school by Boko Haram jihadists, Nigerian police say. Militants raided their school on Monday evening, but many of the students and staff had fled before they arrived. It was initially thought that the girls had escaped, but two days later, their whereabouts are still not known. The… Read more »