organ harvesting in Nigeria?

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Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel. The Imo horror is an especially grim example of Nigeria’s kidnapping epidemic, in which every sort of malevolent group — from Islamic State jihadis to huge bandit gangs and small groups of petty criminals — kidnaps vulnerable people. Sometimes the kidnappers hold their victims for ransom and murder them if the ransom is not paid. In other cases, the abductors are looking for child brides. In Imo, it appears a kidnapping ring was carving up its victims to harvest their organs. State police said on Monday that during their “ongoing war against kidnapping,” they tracked an unnamed suspect to an illegal mortuary and nearby hotel that he owned. “At the mortuary, decomposed and mutilated dead bodies were discovered in unhygienic conditions, raising suspicions of illegal organ-harvesting activities,” said a police spokesman. According to the UK Daily Mail, over a hundred bodies were found at the “organ-harvesting slaughterhouse.” Both the hotel and mortuary were sealed by police while forensic teams examined the scene.

ebola

sudan genocide The world remains silent

Sudan faces a “massive” humanitarian aid crisis, with millions of starving people being denied access to vital food supplies as fighting rages in the war-torn country, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned https://t.co/Xh9pE8kLU9 pic.twitter.com/egb4SaZKym

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 7, 2025

give oeace a chance

from the BBC:  Leaders put pen to paper

published at 03:03

03:03

Trump, Kagame, and Tshisekedi have each just physically signed the deals for peace and mineral sharing that were discussed today.

The formality follows representatives of both nations agreeing to the peace terms in June.

Sudan tragedy

from AlJezeerah:

Sudan has vast oil, gold and agricultural resources. Who controls them? Sudan’s conflict continues to reshape the nation of 50 million amid widespread displacement and a fight for resources.

Sudan’s civil war, now in its third year, has pitted the army against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a devastating struggle for power. The conflict has unleashed the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than 9.5 million people forced from their homes across Sudan’s 18 states and millions facing starvation.

follow the money. It is about gold (one reason the Wagner group mercenaries from Russia were there) and petroleum. 

Oil exports are Sudan’s primary source of revenue. Production expanded between 2001 and 2010, from 200,000 barrels per day to nearly 500,000bpd. In 2011, it collapsed when South Sudan seceded, taking 75 percent of Sudan’s oil reserves with it.

Sudan is one of Africa’s leading gold producers, with deposits across the northeast, centre and the south. Most of the deposits in eastern Sudan are controlled by the Sudanese army, while the central and southwestern goldfields are largely under RSF control.

StrateyPage has an essay from March about the war there, giving background on the war, but it is a bit out of date since the atrocities have gotten worse.

Military history of South African influence

 I just found this site, which discusses battles and military history.

And today it is about Angola and South African wars.

I haven't watched it yet, but post it here for information on the background/history of that area.

Muslim terrorists? Yes, and don't forget the communists

 I am no longer an expert on Africa: It has been years since I worked there, and my ability to keep up with the news there is limited since I was a busy doctor and now I am retired but live in the Philippines where until recent years had a slow internet.

But anyway, the ignorance of the US press/pundits on Africa is astonishing (which is why I tend to read about Africa on Al Jazeerah).

And example: The massacres of a Christian hospital in the Congo by Jihadis.

I thought this was about the massacres in a hospital in the Sudan but that was last week 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx31ezjr04o

and that war by rebel vs government helped by Russian mercenaries and is about who gets the gold, not about religion, but never mind.

This story is getting some mention in the US press because Trumpieby is pressuring the Nigerian government to stop the massacre of Chrisians in Nigeria. Which is partly jihadi,and partly tribal and although most of the dead are Christian, both groups will kill the moderate Muslims too, because they are farmers of the wrong tribe and don't follow radical forms of Islam.

Well, anyway, the article I am citing is here, about a massacre at a Catholic hospital in the Congo.

and I cam across it on Instapundit, a libertarian blog which links to that article thus: 

ETHNIC CLEANSING IS TO BE IGNORED AND TOLERATED WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT: Congo Jihadis Massacre Catholic Hospital Patients as Fighting Rages On. 

 well, anyway, the discussion is full of intelligent republican types who know diddly squat about Africa. 

My ignorance is also huge but I did try to correct some of the comments and here are the posts: it is not just jihadis. The Congo has had so many massacres by various insurgencies that there is a Wikipedia page. Most of these before recent years were by various revolutionary groups, usually funded by the communists.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo 

 and let's not forget the millions killed by that Christian King Leopold at the turn of the 20th century.

 https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/library-research-services/collections/diversity-inclusion-belonging/king-leopolds 

later a commenter said: It is the heart of darkness. Sometimes it's religion sometimes it's tribal. The Hutu vs Tutsi "Rwandan genocide" 30 years ago killed 800,000. Many with machetes.

  to which I replied:

and ironically those countries had many Christians doing the killing. 

Indeed, the Muslims often refused to kill their neighbors when ordered to do so, claiming it was against their religion. As a result many survivors converted to Islam.

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/11/9/rwandans-embrace-islam-in-wake-of-genocide 

 and then there were comments if the US should intervene, which won't happen because as one poster pointed out it would result in the US being blamed for the killings. 

]And so I posted   that the US is not the only one with military capacities there

  But you know, China is there and they will send in their Wolf Warriors to rescue their people if the Jihadis attack the cobalt and rare earth metal mines. 

 

https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia-pacific/china-africa/china-expands-its-peace-and-security-footprint-africa 

 ,,,,,and the world is ignoring the Russian mercenaries who are fueling the murderous war in the Sudan.

 https://africanarguments.org/2025/11/gold-and-mercenaries-the-price-of-the-massacre-in-sudan.....

that is where I left it: leaving out the French military, and the American training groups, not to mention the history of Cuban mercenaries, South African intervention, and the African union peacekeepers and UN peacekeepers who sometimes are successful but often are corrupt. Sigh.