Al-Shabaab Terrorist Attack Foiled in Uganda

A planned attack by Somali militant Islamist terror group al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab was foiled by the Ugandan government. The U.S. Embassy in Uganda said Saturday that Ugandan authorities were responsible for stopping an imminent terrorist attack, according to a report from Voice of America. The target of the attack was not immediately known. Al-Shabaab has […]

WHO Predicts Thousands Of New Ebola Cases In Liberia

The World Health Organization is predicting thousands of new Ebola cases in Liberia this month, explaining that the virus is growing exponentially. The WHO explained in a statement, “Transmission of the Ebola virus in Liberia is already intense and the number of new cases is increasing exponentially.” The organization told Reuters that motorbike-taxis and regular […]

Watch How Women In Egypt Get Harassed While Walking On The Street [Video]

Women in Egypt feel sexually harassed while walking down the streets and two filmmakers decided to document what it is like to be a female, in this highly repressed African country. The simple act of going out in public can be a dangerous proposition in a country that has become known for it’s violent acts […]

Boko Haram Beheads 6-Year-Old Christian Boy

Boko Haram has beheaded a 6-year-old boy simply for being a Christian. According to new reports from Christian Today and several other websites, the child was killed on June 1, but news of the attack didn’t make it global until this week. The attack reportedly occurred in Attagara, Gwoza district, Borno State, which is known […]

Boko Haram: Terrorist Group Beheads Christian Men In Nigeria, Forces Widows Into Sexual Slavery

Boko Haram has targeted Christians in areas the group controls in Nigeria, reportedly beheading all Christian men and forcing the widows into sexual slavery. The terrorist group, which has been responsible for a series of attacks in Nigeria, has taken over an area in the northeast state of Borno and declared it as an Islamic […]

Honey Moon Killer Fit To Stand Trial In South Africa

The Honey Moon killer in South Africa has been found fit to stand trial. Yahoo! News is reporting the man, Shrien Dewani, has been found fit for trial Friday after being observed at a Cape Town hospital. He will now stand trial for arranging his wife’s murder while they were on honeymoon in South Africa. […]

Kenyan Men Hide To Escape Forced Circumcision

Kenya’s circumcision season is a time of community celebration. People of Kenya’s Bukusu ethnic group believe strongly in their traditional circumcision ritual. Not all men in Kenya are excited about the celebration, though. Since the beginning of August, at least 12 Kenyan men from other tribes have been forcibly circumcised, according to MSN News. It’s […]

Boko Haram Strapped And Remotely Triggered Explosives On Unsuspecting Kidnapped Schoolgirls Which Were Scoured From A Captured Chinese Factory

In what could only be deemed as one of the world’s most heinous crimes, the Boko Haram militants have been strapping explosives scoured from a Chinese factory onto little schoolgirls and exploding them via remote controls. Terrorism has been mutating into grotesque forms lately. The Boko Haram faction is perhaps the most dishonorable and cowardly […]

Bill Gates Receives Honorary Doctorate From Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University

Bill Gates received an honorary doctorate degree Thursday from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia for his dedication to philanthropic activities in the third world. The Microsoft founder has been actively travelling the globe to provide medical and scientific aid to various developing countries. Gates has also campaigned for birth control research and the eradication of […]

Peace Corps Volunteers Pulled From Kenya

All Peace Corps volunteers were pulled from Kenya Thursday because of security concerns. The organization and the U.S. State Department made the announcement, adding that more than 50 volunteers will be removed from the country until the threat level decreases. The State Department released a statement to The Associated Press saying the Peace Corps “has […]

Malawi Suspends Anti-Gay Laws Due To Country’s Financial Struggles

Malawi will be suspending its harsh anti-gay laws in response to the African country’s current struggles with its state budget, according to Malawian paper Nyasa Times. Secretary for Justice and Solicitor General Janet Chikaya-Banda addressed the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva last Wednesday to inform the international body of the current reforms in […]

Malala Yousafzai In Nigeria For ‘Bring Back Our Girls’

Malala Yousafzai arrived in Abuja, Nigeria on her 17th birthday to campaign for the plight of more than 250 young girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram more than three months ago. Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt in her home country of Pakistan, made the trip to support the “Bring Back Our Girls” […]

Oscar Pistorius Is A Suicide Risk, According To Psych Report

Oscar Pistorius is depressed, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and at risk of suicide, according to a psychology report read at the athlete’s murder trial on Wednesday. The doctors who spent a month evaluating Pistorius’ mental health also concluded that he does not appear to have a history of abnormal aggression linked to “rage-time murders […]

Graca Machel, Mandela Widow, Speaks For First Time Since Husband’s Death

More than six months after Nelson Mandela’s passing, widow and prominent activist Graca Machel has decided to break her silence regarding his husband’s death, the legacy he left and the intimate relationship they molded together. Machel, who has not been seen in public since the death of Mandela according to Telegraph, is now slowly getting […]

South Sudan Is The Most Fragile Country In The World

South Sudan has officially been declared the world’s most fragile country by the Washington-based non-profit Fund For Peace (FFP). The infant country’s ranking on the list is the result of the relentless political and humanitarian turmoil that continues to plague the African state. Fund For Peace uses 12 variables to determine the ranking of each […]

Mubarak Bala: Nigerian Man Forced Into Mental Hospital For Declaring Himself An Atheist

A Nigerian man, Mubarak Bala, has been admitted against his will in a mental ward for declaring himself an atheist, prompting outcry from human rights activists and humanist organizations around the world. According to The Guardian, 29-year-old Bala has been forcefully detained after the hospital described him to have a “challenging psychological condition.” The International […]

Nigerian Singer Offers Virginity To Boko Haram For Kidnapped Girls

Nigerian pop singer Adokiye Kyrian recently told the country’s Vanguard newspaper that she was willing to give her virginity to the Islamist group Boko Haram, offering herself up in trade for nearly 300 kidnapped girls who are still missing. “I wish I could offer myself in exchange,” Adokiye said, according to Time. The pop singer, […]

Mozambique Will Be Free Of Landmines By The End Of The Year

After more than two decades since the end of their civil war, Mozambique is set to declare itself landmine-free by the end of this year, 2014. Mozambique’s anti-landmine efforts, actively supported by many concerned organizations around the world, have made this huge humanitarian breakthrough possible. Jared Bloch, spokesperson for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, […]

Man Uses Special Forces Experience To Battle Animal Poachers, His Fight Will Have You Standing And Cheering [Photos]

An Australian man is using his special forces experience to battle animal poachers in the African country on Zimbabwe to protect endangered wildlife in the region. Meet Damien Mander. Damien was extremely saddened by the poaching situation in Africa after visiting and decided to take it upon himself to help remedy the situation. Upon returning […]

President Goodluck Jonathan Addresses Nigeria, Pledges “Total War” Against Boko Haram

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria said on Thursday that he has ordered ” a full-scale operation to put an end to the impunity of terrorists on our soil.” He made this remark as he gave reassurance to the parents of 219 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in Yobe in March and Chibok in April and are […]

Nigeria Schoolgirls Found? Military Official Claims To Know Whereabouts

The desperate search for about 300 missing schoolgirls in Nigeria — kidnapped by the ruthless Boko Haram — may have come to an end, if what one official in the African country says is true. According to a report in the News Agency of Nigeria, a top military official claims he knows the whereabouts of […]

Sudan Sentences Pregnant Christian Woman To Death For Renouncing Islam

A court in Sudan has sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to death because of her faith, according to her lawyer. They add that the harsh punishment is due to her renouncing Islam. CNN reports that Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, was convicted of apostasy — renunciation of faith — by a Khartoum court which considers her […]

Boko Haram Leader Offers To Exchange Nigerian Girls For Imprisoned Terrorists; #BringBackOurGirls

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau recently released a video in which he offered to free the 220 Nigerian girls held by his Islamic terrorist organization – whose name means “Western education is sin” – in exchange for the freedom of all militant prisoners associated with the terrorist organization. Abubakar Shekau speaks for 17 minutes on […]

Nigeria Allegedly Had Four Hour Warning Before School Girls Were Kidnapped

Nigerian authorities allegedly knew about the raid on a boarding school where well over 200 girls were kidnapped in the dead of night, according to a London-based human rights group, Amnesty International. According to ABC News, if these statements are true, then the authorities in Nigeria could have had up to four hours of advance […]

John Kerry: Washington Will Do “Everything Possible” To Rescue Scores Of Girls Kidnapped By Islamic Extremists

US Secretary of State John Kerry gave promise to the government of Nigeria that they will do “everything possible” to help disarm and defeat the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram after receiving word that the terrorist group stormed an all-girl school campus, kidnapping more than 200 of the students. “Let me be clear. The kidnapping […]

Tunisia Turns To Star Wars To Revive Tourism

On Wednesday, two dozen Imperial Troopers and fans dressed as Star Wars characters paraded the streets of Tunis for the country’s first Star Wars event. Tunis, Tunisia’s capital city, was the location for the spring revolutions in 2011 that resulted in the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The country is hoping to […]

Nigeria Abduction: At Least 230 Girls Still Missing

Parents of the missing girls who disappeared after the Nigeria abduction are pleading with the public and the government for their help in finding their children. According to USA Today, Headmistress Asabe Kwambula of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok begged the extremist group, the Boko Haram, to “have mercy on the students.” According […]

Nigerian Uprising: 234 Girls Kidnapped By Islamic Extremists

The Nigerian uprising has resulted in the death of hundreds already this year, and, in one of the most recent attacks by the Islamic extremist group, the Boko Haram, some 234 schoolgirls have been reported missing and/or kidnapped. According to a report by the Washington Post, the Boko Haram is responsible for an attack on […]

Two Ugandan Men To Face Court On Homosexuality Charges

Two Ugandan men are expected to defend themselves in court after being charged for homosexuality. A 24 year old businessman, Kim Mikusa, was charged with “having sexual knowledge of a person against the order of nature” after prosecutors confirmed Wednesday that they have gained enough evidence against him and Jackson Makusa, who is 19 years […]

Boko Haram Threatens Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan: ‘We Are In Your City’

Mere hours after bombing a bus station packed with morning commuters in Nigeria’s capital, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram stormed a girls’ school in the northeast and kidnapped 129 students. The schoolgirls are between the ages of 15 and 18. The bombing happened on rush-hour Monday morning, with the bomb blast killing 71 and […]

United Nations Base In Sudan Attacked, 58 Killed, 100 Injured

A United Nations base in South Sudan was attacked, leaving 58 people killed and another 100 people injured during the attack. According to the Washington Post, an angry mob of youths attacked the United Nations peacekeeping mission’s camp in Bor in Jonglei state on Thursday. Ethnic Nuers, about 5,000 of them, fled there after fighting […]

Over Three Million Threatened With Disaster According To Zimbabwe-Zambia’s Kariba Dam Tests

The five-decade-old Kariba Dam threatens collapse which would create a disaster for three and a half million in the vicinity. In early March, engineers from the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), which manages the Kariba Dam, issued a serious warning that one of the world’s largest dams could collapse at any time. The Kariba Dam is […]

Oscar Pistorius Trial Gets Tense When Prosecutor Asks, ‘Did She Scream While You Shot Her?’

The Oscar Pistorius murder trial got very tense when the prosecutor slammed the star witness who faced another day of grueling cross examination, following his testimony about the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013, when he shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius — who has been visibly shaken throughout his trial — attempted […]

Child Bride Forced Into Marriage Poisons Groom

A child bride in Nigeria has allegedly killed her new husband and at least three of his friends. Police said Thursday that the 14-year-old child bride laced her new groom’s food with poison before serving him and his friends. According to ABC News, 14-year-old Wasila Umaru was married last week to 35-year-old Umaru Sani. Sani […]

South Africa, Rwanda Feud Heats Up With Expelled Diplomats

South Africa and Rwandan relations have taken a turn for the worst as both countries have expelled the others’ diplomats. The feud, which is rapidly escalating is over the murder of a former Rwandan government official who was killed in South Africa’s capital of Johannesburg three months ago. Bloomberg news reports that Rwanda’s foreign minister […]

Nigerian School Attack: Islamist Militants Burn Students To Death

A Nigerian school attack staged Tuesday by the Islamist group Boko Haram resulted to the death of 59 students in Yobe state in Nigeria, Reuters reports. Some of the victims were reported to have been burned alive by the attackers. The Nigerian school attack happened in the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi. All of […]

South Africa: Addicted To Welfare

In South Africa, the number of people relying on welfare is dangerously high. There’s actually more people in South Africa that receive government aid than have jobs. Which makes you start to wonder where all the money is coming from and how long it will last. In a new budget set to be released tomorrow, […]

Cape Town Mayor Says New City Logo Wouldn’t Cost Millions

Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille released an official statement on Friday saying that the latest media reports about the cost and nature of the city’s new logo are incorrect. In an effort to change the city’s current corporate identity, the creation of a new logo for Cape Town became one of the most talked […]

South Africa Political Rally Turns Ugly

South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, staged a protest rally Wednesday in downtown Johannesburg that produced more than a little tension on both sides. The march is a precursor to the South African general elections scheduled for May 7th. The Democratic Alliance marched with the intention of sending a message to the current ruling […]

Nelson Mandela Alleged ‘Love Children’ Come Forward

A lawyer representing two women seeking to be recognized as Nelson Mandela’s children has reportedly contacted the executor of Mandela’s will. The families of the two women say they don’t want any of his money, just to be recognized. The Inquisitr recently reported that the content of Nelson Mandela’s will was revealed last week. In […]

South Africa General Elections Set For May 7

South Africa will hold general elections on May 7, a milestone,in the country’s democracy 20-years after the end of white minority rule, the President said on Friday. This will be the first election since the death of anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela, the first black president who brought hope to millions […]

Nelson Mandela $4.1 Million Estate To Be Split Among Family, Staff, Schools

Former South African President Nelson Mandela left around $4.1 million to his family, former staff, schools, and the African National Congress (ANC), the reading of his will revealed on Monday. During a news conference one of the will’s executor Dikgang Moseneke said the estate was valued at 46 million rand ($4.1 million), excluding royalties. The […]

South Africa: Hundreds Of Endangered Animals Found Dead At Airport

Hundreds of amphibians and reptiles have been found dead, crammed in crates at South Africa’s International Airport, officials said on Friday. Authorities are investigating whether any laws were broken in South Africa after approximately 400 amphibians and reptiles have died of dehydration and improper shipping, according to animal inspectors. The animals were found in crates […]

Alleged Cape Town Rapist Requests Solitary Confinement

A man from Cape Town, South Africa, accused of rape abandoned his bail application in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and requested solitary confinement instead. Reports state that the 27-year-old man stands accused of raping a nine-year-old girl and then setting her on fire. According to Eye Witness News, the nine-year-old girl had been […]

South Africa: Rare 29.6 Carat Blue Diamond Found In Mine

A mining company says it has found a rare blue diamond in a South Africa mine. Petra Diamonds says the 29.6 carat diamond came from the Cullinan mine, the source of some of the world’s most famous diamonds according to ABC News. Petra also operates mines in Botswana and Tanzania and the company has previously […]

Lesego Motsepe Dies: HIV Positive Actress Found Dead In Her Home

Lesego Motsepe was found dead at her home in Randburg, South Africa on Monday. Motsepe starred on SABC3‘s popular television soap opera, “Isidingo”, from 1998 to 2008. Playing the role of Letti Mattabane, she was adored by fans. Lesego Motsepe, 39, also revealed a secret prior to her death. The beautiful South African actress had […]

Boko Haram Islamic Terrorists Kill 12 At Christian Wedding In Nigeria

A Boko Haram terrorist attack by militant Islamists has killed 12 at a wedding in Nigeria. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Boko Haram has caused much suffering in the past. Several months ago the Islamists killed 42 children in a school. Unfortunately, the jihad continued to target schools in a war on Nigerian students. […]

Fake Signer’s Company Completely Disappears After Mandela Memorial

The story of the fake signer who was exposed for inaccurately translating sign language during Nelson Mandela’s memorial service gets stranger — if you can believe it. A South African government official says the company which employed the phony interpreter has disappeared. Seeking answers about the embarrassing incident, the South African deputy minister of women, […]

Rescued Shipwreck Victim Survived Three Days Underwater In Air Pocket [Video]

A crew member on the capsized Jascon 4 tugboat miraculously survived three days thanks to an underwater air pocket. He was the only survivor of a crew of 12. The Jascon 4 tugboat sank on May 26 off the coast of Nigeria while towing an oil tanker, but the video footage has just hit the […]

South Africa Charges Czech Gold Dealer With Mafia-Style Crimes

South Africa has charged a Czech gold dealer with mafia-style violence following an attempted murder. The dealer, who allegedly has links to organized crime, was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and assault in a court in South Africa. Radovan Krejcir and two others who are members of the elite police unit called the Hawks, have […]