KANKARA, NIGERIA – Parents converged on a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern Katsina state on Sunday, begging authorities to save hundreds of boys abducted by gunmen. The army had exchanged fire with a gang that took the students from the all-boys Government Science school in Kankara, a spokesman for the president said on Saturday night, […]

MBABANE, ESWATINI – The prime minister of the African kingdom of Eswatini died Sunday in a South African hospital, the government announced Sunday without specifying the cause of this death. Ambrose Dlamini, prime minister of the continent’s last absolute monarchy, was 52 years old. Eswatini was formerly known as Swaziland. “His majesty has asked me […]