Emmanuel Akinwotu

The airstrike hit a crowded market in Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria.

It's a remote region where armed groups are at large and where the U.S.

launched airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants on Christmas Day.

In this attack, Amnesty International and local media say more than 100 people were killed.

Some 200 people died when the Nigerian military struck a different market last month.

Airstrikes wrongly targeting innocents have repeatedly been blamed on the Nigerian military, who in a few cases have promised to investigate or have apologised, blaming faulty intelligence.

And it's continued since the US sent troops to Nigeria earlier this year to share intelligence and training.

Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR News, Lagos.

Pope Leo was greeted by Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang.

He's been in power for decades, even during the country's only other papal visit by Pope John Paul II in 1982.

Critics have warned Pope Leo's visit could be seen as an endorsement of Obiang, who along with his son leads a government accused of widespread repression and corruption.

Ahead of the pontiff's visit, government workers alleged deductions were made to their salaries to fund logistics.

Throughout his 11-day trip in Africa, Pope Leo has sharply criticised despotism and corruption, urging African leaders to, quote, break the chain of corruption, a message that few in Equatorial Guinea can express without fear of arrest.

Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR News, Lagos.

Pope Leo has sought to return the focus of his 11-day tour in Africa away from growing tensions with President Trump.

In Angola, his third stop on the tour, he said some of his statements against war had been interpreted as a direct response to attacks against him by President Trump last week.

Nearly half of Angola's almost 40 million people are Catholic.

And on Sunday, Leo visited a sanctuary where enslaved Africans were forcibly baptized before being taken to the Americas.

He made a speech acknowledging the, quote, sorrow and great suffering, but stopped short of directly referencing slavery or the church's role in it.

Emmanuel Akimotu, NPR News, Lagos.