October 2021

The UN mission in Libya has urged leaders to stick to the December 24 timeline for presidential and legislative polls it hopes will help stabilise the war-battered nation.

Libya has been struggling to move past the violence that has wracked the oil-rich nation since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with political wrangling over the date of the polls the latest stumbling block.

A ceasefire between eastern and western factions last year led to a fragile unity government taking office in March, with a mandate to take the country to elections.

Part of an agreed roadmap …

Sudanese anti-coup protesters on Sunday manned barricades in Khartoum a day after a deadly crackdown on mass rallies, as a defiant civil disobedience campaign against the military takeover entered its seventh day.

Tens of thousands turned out across the country for Saturday’s demonstrations, marching against the army’s October 25 power grab, when top General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan dissolved the government, declared a state of emergency and detained Sudan’s civilian leadership.

The move sparked a chorus of international condemnation, with world powers demanding a swift return to civilian rule and calls for the military to show “restraint” against protesters.

At least …

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has accused the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi of pampering Fulani terrorists.

HURIWA made the remark while berating Magashi over his recent comment on why the government was yet to proscribe bandits as terrorists.

The rights group wondered why the Federal Government proscribed the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, as a terrorist, but has delayed in doing same with bandits.

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Magashi had said due process was responsible for Federal Government’s delay in declaring bandits as terrorists.

He had said there was a …

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016.

Akhundzada has been the spiritual chief of the Islamist movement since 2016 but has remained a reclusive figure, even after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.

His low profile has fed speculation about his role in the new Taliban government, formed after the group took control of Kabul in mid-August — and even rumours of his death.

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On Saturday, he …

The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), has unveiled his next plan for ex-agitators, saying he will focus on wealth creation, leveraging on partnerships that will have positive effects on the economy of the Niger Delta and the country at large.

He said having laid the foundation in his first one year with his outlined vision, the time for action had come to produce the desired result for the benefit of all.

Dikio, in a statement signed and sent to the News dailies by his Special Adviser, Nneotaobase Egbe, after separate meetings with leaders …

Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has asked the Federal Government to apologise for the raid on the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court and wife of a former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that security operatives had invaded Justice Odili’s home on Friday.

The search warrant showed that the panel comprises the EFCC, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the Ministry of Justice.

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But, the EFCC has since denied reports that its operatives were behind …

The Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) has reportedly ordered military uniforms from Libya.

One of the commanders is said to have mentioned the purchase ahead of planned attacks in December.

Eons Intelligence reports that uniforms were procured by one Ibrahim Maidogon Kwana in Kusri, Cameroon.

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Kwana and his boys are plotting to move the items into Nigerian territory in boats through border communities.

Gamboru-Ngala and Ruwa Misa in the south of Lake Chad axis are two routes already identified.

Over the years, terrorist organisations in Nigeria, including Boko Haram, …

The Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDCs) has lamented that the bandits operating in the northwest part of the country are seriously killing their operatives.

This was contained in a press statement signed by the State Corps spokesman, Mr. Aminu Maru.

He said that the killings of the operatives have continued unabated and was now a serious public concern, pointing out that more Corps Personnel were losing their lives in the cause of saving the lives of defenseless citizens of Nigeria.

‘This must stop because we are all living witnesses and we have been