Africa

Nigeria has extradited a fugitive Chinese gang leader wanted over violent crimes in China following a joint police operation coordinated through Interpol, Nigerian police said on Sunday.

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF allegedly shelled a hospital in North Darfur’s besieged city of El-Fasher and abducted six women and two children from a displacement camp.

Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded boat took in water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, a nonprofit organisation reported on Sunday.

Moroccan firefighters continued their efforts on Sunday to extinguish a raging forest fire in the country’s northern Chefchaouen province.

The Nigerian Air Force has rescued 76 kidnap victims, including women and children, after a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in northwest Katsina State, authorities said on Saturday.

Nigeria’s air force says it has killed at least 35 terrorists in air strikes near the Cameroonian border, following intelligence that the group was planning an attack.

As of August 15, 4,323 migrants had arrived on the islands since the start of the year, marking a 77 percent increase.

Michael Sang Correa was sentenced to 810 months in prison for his participation in the torture of numerous victims in Gambia in 2006.

Joseph Kabila is being tried in absentia in a treason case that includes war crimes charges related to his nearly 20-year rule .

Donald Trump has derided the Smithsonian for dwelling on “how bad slavery was”. Historians say the trans-Atlantic slave trade was among humanity’s gravest crimes of exploitation and inequality.