Nigeria: Jihadist turf war kills around 200

KANO (Nigeria), Nov 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Clashes between rival jihadist factions in northeast Nigeria have claimed some 200 lives in the restive Lake Chad area, intelligence, militia and jihadist sources said. Fighting between Boko Haram and rival militants from the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAP) group broke out in Dogon…

Mali: Young woman who posted on TikTok abducted by jihadists, executed in public

News of her death has shocked the country, which is ruled by a military junta that is struggling to contain the jihadist insurgency BAMAKO, Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Suspected jihadists in northern Mali kidnapped a young woman who had been posting on TikTok and then publicly executed her, her family…

Brazilian Pres Lula warns at CELAC-EU Summit on militarization of the Caribbean

SANTA MARTA (Colombia), Nov 10 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned about the growing military presence of foreign powers in the Caribbean, specifically referring to the movement of US troops and ships in the region. “Latin America and the Caribbean must be a zone of…

Latin American and Caribbean countries, EU pledge cooperation on energy, environment

SANTA MARTA (Colombia), Nov 10 (NNN-XINHUA) — The fourth summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) opened in Santa Marta, Colombia, where the two sides issued a joint declaration on energy, environment and energy transitions. The declaration proposed deepening cooperation in…

South Africa’s President Ramaphosa elected interim Chair of SADC

PRETORIA, Nov 10 (NNN-SANEWS) — South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected as the interim Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) following the regional bloc’s virtual Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government held on Nov 7. The decision follows the Republic of Madagascar’s decision to…

Germany: Saudi, critical of Islam, goes on trial for deadly Magdeburg Christmas market attack

MAGDEBURG (Germany), Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Saudi doctor goes on trial in Germany on Monday accused of driving an SUV through a Christmas market in a rampage that killed six people and wounded more than 300. Taleb Jawad al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist, was arrested next to the battered vehicle…

UN says refugees stuck in vicious cycle of conflict and climate

GENEVA, Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Millions of refugees are trapped in a vicious cycle of conflict and climate extremes, the United Nations said Monday, urging the COP30 summit to provide financing for the most vulnerable. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly…

Cop30: Amazon poised to host toughest climate talks in years

BELEM (Brazil), Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An odor of oil hung over last year’s UN climate conference in Baku, capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting Monday, the 50,000 participants of COP30 will instead feel the heavy, humid air of the Amazon rainforest in Belem, Brazil, where they face the daunting…

UK: Chinese businesswoman and Malaysian accomplice faces jail after huge crypto seizure by British police

LONDON, Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — She lived a life of luxury that earned her the nickname “goddess of wealth”, but Chinese businesswoman Zhimin Qian now faces a long jail sentence after police made the UK’s largest-ever cryptocurrency seizure of Bitcoin worth over $6 billion. The 47-year-old, who used the alias…

Slovakia: Dozens hurt, including 11 hospitalised, after 2 trains collide between Svaty Jur and Pezinok – govt

BRATISLAVA, Nov 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Dozens of people were injured Sunday evening including 11 who were taken to hospital after two trains collided in western Slovakia, the government announced. There were around 800 passengers on board the trains, which were travelling about 20 kilometres north of the capital Bratislava, between…