Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s famed Blue Mosque early on Saturday, on the third day of his trip to Turkey. It was the first time the American pope, elected in May as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, visited a Muslim place of worship since taking over from his late predecessor, Francis. The Blue…
President Donald Trump on Friday announced he will permanently stop Nigerian immigrants and others from entering the United States. The immigration ban targets citizens of the Global South. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions,…
A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced centre-left former president Martin Vizcarra to 14 years’ imprisonment for taking bribes while serving as a regional governor. Vizcarra, who championed the fight against corruption as president from 2018 to 2020, was found guilty of receiving bribes from construction companies while as governor of the southern Moquegua region between…
The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Michael Waltz, has reported what he described as the slaughter of thousands of Christians in Nigeria to the UN Security Council. In a video released on Thursday by the US Mission to the UN on X, the ambassador outlined rising concerns over killings, razed communities and the…
Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed four people Thursday as Qatar, a mediator of the weeks-long ceasefire, warned that renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas. The new strikes came the morning after one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the truce came into…
United States–based Trinidadian rapper and singer Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, addressed the United Nations on Tuesday, calling for urgent action to protect Christians in Nigeria facing alleged deadly attacks. She stressed that her advocacy is about defending human rights and religious freedom, not taking sides. Below is the full text of…
The United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa will on Thursday, November 20, 2025, hold a high-profile open hearing to examine President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) over alleged religious freedom violations. If upheld by the US Senate, the CPC label empowers Washington to impose targeted…
The people and government of Angola recently bestowed an award of honour and recognition on Nigeria’s late former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed. The award event which held over the weekend in the Country’s capital – Luanda, was part of activities marking the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary. The awards event which also had two…
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for editing a documentary in a way that made it appear that he had advocated violence. However, the news corporation rejected the president’s demand for compensation. The BBC issued the apology in its ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ section, published Thursday evening, noting that the programme had been…
US President Donald Trump on Monday met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House. The historic visit marked the first time a Syrian president has ever visited the White House. Breaking from typical protocol, reporters and cameras were kept out of the meeting. Al-Sharaa is the former leader of al-Qaeda, US-designated terror group…