Sri Lanka’s President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to find tens of thousands of people still missing after the country’s decades-long war. Maithripala Sirisena said he would establish a mechanism to search locations where there are reports that people may still be incarcerated after the war, … Read more
Burkina Faso’s Diebedo Francis Kere will be the first African architect to design a temporary pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, a prestigious assignment given to a world-famous architect every year. Kere’s design is inspired by a tree in his hometown of Gando that serves as “a central meeting point for life”, the Serpentine Galleries said … Read more
The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby. She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria’s military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks. A total of 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from the … Read more
The Nigerian army says that one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls has been found, along with her six-month-old baby. She was discovered by soldiers investigating suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria’s military said the young woman is undergoing medical checks. A total of 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from the … Read more
When Boko Haram fighters decided to release some of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in northeast Nigeria, Asabe Goni did not think that she would be among the girls allowed to go home. During their time in captivity the girls were encouraged to convert to Islam and to marry their kidnappers, with … Read more
More than 20 Nigerian “Chibok girls” who were released by the Islamist group Boko Haram in October have rejoined their families for Christmas. It is the girls’ first return home since they were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in April 2014. The young women were freed in October after Switzerland and the International Red … Read more
Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts to evacuate besieged areas into doubt. Pro-government forces say people must be allowed to leave the mainly Shia villages of Foah and Kefraya for the evacuation of … Read more
The Nigerian Army says that it has rescued another one of the girls abducted from the Government Secondary School Chibok in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents. A statement issued by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, says troops deployed at Pulka in Gwoza Local Government Area discovered the girl, Maryam Ali … Read more