Nigeria ‘s military Tuesday denied a rights group’s claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, as attention turned again to a long-running fight against armed groups in the country’s volatile north. Amnesty International in a statement Monday said a military airstrike on Sunday hit a market in Tumfa in Zamfara state. A Red Cross official in the state, Ibrahim Bello Garba, confirmed the strike to The Associated Press and said “multiple civilians” were killed. “In one village alone, 80 people were buried and there is no evidence that any of those people killed is...

The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday. Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce had all insisted they were innocent of one of the city’s most notorious crimes. They were finally declared innocent by a judge in February after investigators determined the crime was committed by...

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing backlash after he interrupted a panel at the Africa Forward Summit in Kenya to demand silence from the audience. Macron stormed the stage to rebuke audience members for what he called a “total lack of respect,” accusing them of disrupting speakers during a presentation by artists and young entrepreneurs. He had earlier described himself as a “Pan-Africanist” during a news conference. The summit is meant to showcase France’s new policy for the continent — a shift from a former colonial power seen as dominating to what Paris describes as a partnership of equals. On...

King Charles III on Wednesday will deliver the government’s legislative program for the coming year to lawmakers with all the pomp and historic trappings that accompany the ceremonial opening of Britain’s Parliament. The question is whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be around to implement it and, even if he survives the latest government crisis, whether he will have the authority to push his proposals through Parliament. The King’s Speech will be Starmer’s second attempt to save his premiership after his Labour Party suffered huge losses in local and regional elections last week. That weakened his already tenuous grip on...

Honduran authorities on Tuesday arrested three people, including a powerful politician, accused of masterminding the 2024 assassination of an environmental leader, which became a symbol of government corruption and the ongoing perils of protecting the environment in the region. Adán Fúnez, former mayor of the city of Tocoa, was captured at his home on Tuesday on suspicion of masterminding the killing, following years of accusations by religious and environmental leaders. Juan López was an anti-corruption crusader who led a fierce community effort against an iron oxide mining project in Colon, a rural region of northwestern Honduras, which activists said endangered...

A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, 9 of which have been confirmed. Three people on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple that health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America. The French passenger hospitalized in Paris has a severe form of the disease that has caused life-threatening lung and heart problems, said Dr. Xavier...

Brazil’s government Tuesday launched an anti-organized crime program seen by some politicians as an attempt by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to beef up his public security credentials ahead of October’s elections. The program allows for 11 billion reais ($2 billion) in spending on public security, an area in which Lula has been a frequent target by political rivals. The program includes beefing up the fight against arms trafficking; attacking the finances of criminal organizations; raising the quality of homicide investigations and investing in the country’s prison system. About 1 billion Brazilian reais ($190 million) of the initiative will...

Peter Psquare: “For weeks, I’ve been secretly planning this surprise for two people who mean a lot to me… my manager Emem and my blood @donflexx 🚘❤️ “Life happened in the middle of the plan, and sadly DonFlex lost his beloved mom. 💔But I still decided to go ahead with this surprise because I know this little gesture will put a smile on his face, lift his spirit, and remind him that he’s not alone. “These two individuals have stood by me through thick and thin. They believed in me, supported my journey, shaped my career, and stayed loyal through...

Nollywood charismatic actor, Alex Ekubo, born in Port Harcourt and a former Mr. Nigeria runner-up, starred in over 100 films like Afamefuna and Omo Ghetto: The Saga after graduating law from the University of Calabar. Ekubo was reportedly rushed to a Lagos hospital on May 11, he spent hours on life support before his death, according to close family source Tributes poured in from stars like Liquorose and Phyna, while actor Williams Uchemba’s faith-filled post blending inside jokes and spiritual assurance.

Forty years. That’s how long Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power. The 81-year-old was sworn in Tuesday for a seventh consecutive term to extend his presidency over a further five years that may well be his last — although not necessarily for the Museveni family. Army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president’s son and presumptive heir, oversaw dayslong rehearsals of the military parade that animated the inauguration of Museveni, with Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flying noisily over official ceremonial grounds in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Museveni took the oath of office and received the ceremonial instruments of power...