Residents in the village of Zabarmari in northeast Borno State on Sunday buried at least 43 people in nine mass graves after the Saturday onslaught. Suspected Boko Haram insurgents killed the farmers and some fishermen while they worked on rice fields across the Jere local government area before torching their farms. Local officials reported several other people were injured and said the attackers abducted others, including women.

A Samaritan’s Purse team had just set up a field hospital on Nov. 14 in Honduras to help victims of Hurricane Eta when Iota started bearing down on them. The team rushed to drop the tents, strap them down, and move equipment to higher ground before the second hurricane arrived, said Kelly Suter, the ministry’s medical director.

“It really gave us a unique perspective to be able to weather the storm with the community,” Suter said. “I think it adds another layer of compassion.”

A Venezuelan judge in the capital city of Caracas on Thursday found the American oil executives detained since 2017 guilty of corruption. Five of the men received sentences of eight years and ten months, while a sixth man received a 13-year sentence. The men worked for Houston-based Citgo refining company, owned by Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA oil company.

AstraZeneca on Monday said its COVID-19 vaccine was up to 90 percent effective in late-stage trials. The manufacturing company and Oxford University ran trials of the vaccine in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Pfizer and Moderna also reported nearly 95 percent efficacy last week from similar late-stage trials.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) named Abu Ubaida Yusuf al-Annabi its new leader in a Saturday video, five months after the death of his predecessor. French forces killed Abdelmalek Droukdel in June during an operation in Mali. AQIM has staged attacks and abducted foreigners for ransom across North and West Africa.

Islamic State–affiliated insurgents staged multiple brutal attacks over three days this month in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, leaving about 50 civilians dead. Witnesses recounted how the extremists burned down homes and rounded up civilians in a soccer field to behead them. Insurgent violence in the oil-rich northern region since 2017 has killed more than 2,000 people and displaced more than 430,000 others.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said the State Department would recognize the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign for “the cancer that it is.” The economic boycott protests Israeli policies toward Palestinians. The U.S. decision would cut off government funding for any organization taking part in the movement, Pompeo said.