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MALI: Jihadists steps up terror campaign
Jihadists in central Mali are escalating offensives in an effort to seize swathes of the region and…
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BURKINA FASO: Extremists hunt Christians
A leading Catholic charity has received anonymous reports that terrorists in Burkina Faso have instigated a killing…
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MALI: Free at last
After more than four and a half years of captivity at the hands of Malian jihadist insurgents,…
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SIERRA LEONE: We learnt from Ebola
Sierra Leone’s low number of COVID deaths is the result of lessons the country learnt during the…
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MALAWI: Building up the Church for Saint Joseph
Saving the roof of a new cathedral in an area of Malawi beset by natural disasters is…
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NIGERIA: Bishop Kukah – ‘Genocide is happening in Nigeria’
Systematic violence against Nigerian Christians by Fulani herdsmen constitutes genocide, according to a leading Catholic bishop who…
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NIGER: Priest rejoices as new video shows kidnapped brother still alive
A missionary priest has expressed his “joy” and “surprise” after a video was released showing that his…
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CAMEROON: The new frontier for Boko Haram attacks
• Terror group ‘is like the beast of the Apocalypse’…
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NIGERIA: Government are Islamic fundamentalists without bombs, says bishop
The beheading of 10 Christians by Islamist militants in Nigeria has sparked a condemnation by a bishop…
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NIGER: The brother of a priest abducted a year ago still hopes for his return
ONE year after the abduction of Italian priest Father Pierluigi Macalli in Niger, his brother Father Walter…