Abducted Burkina women flee jihadist gunmen through bush
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoReuters Piercing thorns and stones underfoot did not stop the young woman as she charged through thickets, baby strapped to her back, fleeing armed militants who had kidnapped her with dozens of others in northern Burkina Faso last week. Now back home in the town of Arbinda along with a few who also […]
Austrian police arrest 14 in manhunt after gunman’s deadly rampage
Vienna, AustriaReuters Austrian police raided 18 properties and arrested 14 people in a massive dragnet on Tuesday, after a gunman identified as a convicted jihadist killed four people and injured 22 in a rampage in the centre of Vienna. The 20-year-old gunman, who was killed by police minutes after opening fire on crowded bars late […]
With climate change, conflict and COVID, stresses grow for Malian villagers
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly four decades ago, farmers in the small central Malian village of Dlonguebougou grew their millet crops with little more than hoes, and local mud-hut shops sold just the basics: salt, sugar, tea, cola nuts, kerosene and cigarettes. The vast empty reaches of the Sahel, stretching north into the Sahara Desert, […]
ESSAY: SHOULD NIGERIA HAVE RELEASED BOKO HARAM SUSPECTS?
In an article first published on The Conversation, JIDEOFOR ADIBE, a professor of international relations and political science at Nigeria’s Nasarawa State University, looks at the concept – and success – of de-radicalisation programs…