December 19, 2021

Hundreds of people braved sub-zero temperatures in Afghanistan’s capital to queue outside the passport office early Sunday, a day after the Taliban government announced it would resume issuing travel documents.

Many began their wait the previous night and most stood patiently in single file — some desperate to leave the country for medical treatment, others to escape the Islamists’ renewed rule.

Tense Taliban personnel periodically charged crowds that formed at the front of the queue and at a nearby roadblock.

“We don’t want any suicide attack or explosion to happen,” said Taliban security operative Ajmal Toofan, 22, expressing concerns about …

An Igbo socio-cultural group, Nzuko Ndigbo, have maintained that Ndigbo are in prison as long as the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, remains in detention.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the IPOB leader is currently being detained in the facility of the Department of State Service (DSS) in Abuja, on the orders of Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako-led federal high court in Abuja, following treasonable felony charges levelled against the Kanu by the Federal Government.

Nzuko Ndigbo, in a statement made through its Publicity Secretary, Edomobi Promise on Sunday, declared that Nnamdi Kanu is …