Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said. Based in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) pledges allegiance...
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Panama defender Gilberto Hernández has been killed in a shooting in his home country, police said. The 26-year-old defender, played for the first division club Club Atlético Independiente de La Chorrera and the national team. He died in an armed attack on a group of people in...
Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, according to a New York Times report, as Russia seeks closer military ties with North Korea. In a rare trip abroad, Kim would...
The United Kingdom (UK) has updated its travel requirements for people wishing to enter the country. The UK on Monday, September 4 announced that Nigerians and other citizens, except British and Irish nationals, wishing to enter the country must apply for Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The new rule...
Gen. Brice Nguema, the leader of the coup that ousted Gabon’s President Ali Bongo was sworn in as interim president on Monday. Nguema was cheered by jubilant supporters in a televised ceremony designed to cast the military as liberators of an oppressed society. In West and...
The military junta in Niger has reopened the West African country’s airspace again more than one month after seizing power in a coup. Niger’s airspace is accessible for both civil and commercial aircraft with immediate effect, the military said on Monday. The junta had closed the country’s...
France is banning girls from wearing abayas and boys from wearing qamis at state schools in a move that is controversial. The step, coming as the new school year begins, was decreed by France’s new Education Minister Gabriel Attal, although French law imposes a strict separation between the...
Tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed, a controversial billionaire and the father of Dodi who was killed along with Princess Diana in 1997, has died aged 94 his family said in a statement Friday. “Mrs Mohamed Al-Fayed, her children and grandchildren wish to confirm that her beloved husband, their father and...
A newly released video of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has emerged showing him in Africa dismissing reports of his elimination, reports Reuters. In a report the warlord insisted “Everything is fine” in the video filmed in Africa during “the second half of August.” Recall that Prigozhin...
Without France’s military operations in the Sahel “there would probably no longer be a Mali … Burkina Faso, and I’m not sure there would still be Niger”, French President Emmanuel Macron told French publication Le Point. Macron is referring to the former colonial power’s interventions in the mid-2000s, Operations...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday debunked the transitional proposal for the Republic of Niger as fake. In a communique sent by the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in Abuja to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), it condemned the reports as fake news. The bloc...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said coups only make crises worse, emphasising the need for durable governance and the rule of law. Guterres said this on Thursday while highlighting the succession of military coups unfolding across Africa at a press encounter at UN Headquarters, in New York. ...
The African Union (AU) has suspended Gabon’s membership in the wake of the coup in the Central African country. AU’s Peace and Security Council said on Thursday evening that it strongly condemned the take-over of power by the military in Gabon, which deposed President Ali Bongo. It...
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday said all diplomatic options would be exhausted with the military junta in Niger Republic before any military intervention. A statement on Thursday in Abuja by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said Tinubu also reiterated the non-acceptance of forceful removal of a democratic government....
African leaders are working out on Thursday how to respond to officers in Gabon who ousted President Ali Bongo and installed their own head of state. The latest in a wave of coups in West and Central Africa that regional powers have failed to reverse. The takeover...
Niger’s ruling junta has ordered police to expel France’s ambassador, a move marking a further downturn in relations. The coup leaders are following the strategy of juntas in neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso, in distancing themselves from the region’s former colonial power amid a wave of anti-French sentiment....
Hours after military leaders seized power in Gabon, President Ali Bongo issued a plea to the public from where he is being held under house arrest. Bongo called on the people of Gabon to “make noise,” saying in a brief video he had been illegally detained at his...
Russia came under a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack overnight, with reports of damage flowing in from a half-dozen regions on Wednesday morning. This is thought to be the biggest drone raid on Russian territory since Moscow launched the all-out invasion of its neighbour in February 2022. In...
A lion ran loose in a major Pakistani city for the second time this year, officials said on Wednesday, shedding light on the craze for exotic pets. For hours on Tuesday, the 20-month-old male lion strolled the streets in a congested neighbourhood of Karachi, police official Sheraz Nazir...
Russian Courts are convicting a growing number of men for desertion, indicating low morale among soldiers, according to the latest assessment by Britain’s Ministry of Defence. “Refusal to fight likely reflects the lack of training, motivation and high stress situations Russian forces face along the entire Ukrainian frontline,’’...