Africa

• Africa: UN and others warn of threats from Ebola and El Niño 26 June 2026
  Representatives from the UN and major aid organisations have warned of growing humanitarian threats affecting millions of people worldwide. Africa is facing a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak, with more than a thousand confirmed cases and over 260 deaths reported. Health officials describe it as the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record,…
• Nigeria: hundreds of kidnap victims freed 18 June 2026
  More than four hundred women and children abducted earlier this year by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria have been freed, according to local leaders and government officials. The captives were taken from communities around Ngoshe in Borno State, a region that has experienced repeated attacks during the long-running Islamist…
• France / Rwanda: memorial to 1994 genocide unveiled 4 June 2026
  Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan president Paul Kagame have inaugurated a new memorial in Paris honouring the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Unveiled on the banks of the River Seine, the monument, known as ‘The Archive’, commemorates an estimated 800,000 men, women and children, most of them ethnic Tutsis, who…
• Nigeria: three killed and fifteen abducted at prayer vigil 4 June 2026
  Three Christians were killed and 15 others abducted when armed attackers stormed a church prayer vigil in Kwara State, western Nigeria, on 23 May. The assault took place during an overnight gathering at a remote prayer site near Ekerin village, where gunmen opened fire before taking worshippers to an unknown…
• Nigeria: communities sue Shell because of pollution from oil pipeline 4 June 2026
  Communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta are pursuing legal action against Shell over extensive environmental damage linked to repeated oil spills from the Nembe Creek Trunk Line pipeline. Internal company documents disclosed during court proceedings suggest that as early as 2008 there was disagreement between senior executives over the risks of…