The development carries potential benefits for both sides but still faces stiff international opposition, 34 years after the region broke away from Somalia.
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President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.
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By Ruth Maclean, Saikou Jammeh, Ismail Auwal and Eric Schmitt
Ansar al-Sunna, which experts say appears to be an ISIS splinter group, claimed responsibility for the explosion, which happened as worshipers were attending Friday Prayer.
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Detty December means a month of “back to back to back” partying in Nigeria’s megacity. Ruth Maclean, the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, attends for the first time.
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By Ruth Maclean, Taiwo Aina, Karen Hanley and Christina Thornell
The aircraft was on its descent from the mountain when it crashed around the Barafu Camp area in Kilimanjaro National Park, officials said.
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The internationally recognized government of Libya confirmed the deaths of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the army chief of general staff, and other officers flying home after a meeting in Turkey.
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A spokesman for the Nigerian government said the “remaining” students taken from a Catholic school had been freed, but the local diocese said that only a “second batch” had been released.
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No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.
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The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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A paramilitary attack in April was one of the most brutal of Sudan’s civil war. Now, hunger is spreading as Western aid cuts have reduced U.N. rations.
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Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.
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By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon and Victor Adewale
Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum.
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The European Union has mounted an “air bridge” effort, with at least eight aid flights planned to Sudan. But getting supplies to the areas with the most dire need is an enormous challenge.
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