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No fewer than ten inmates and a police officer were confirmed dead during an attempt to escape from a Haitian prison, police sources have revealed.

“The toll that we have is eleven dead, including a police officer,” police spokesman Gary Desrosiers told AFP of the incident which took place Friday at Croix-des-Bouquets, just outside the Haitian capital.

Three more police officers were seriously injured and will need to be medically evacuated to Cuba, he added.

The incident began at midday Friday, when an unknown number of inmates, who had firearms, tried to break out of the country’s second-largest prison.

The …

A major coalition of Malian political parties yesterday rejected the military-dominated government’s plan for a transition that could see them stay in office for five years before the country returns to democratic rule.

The army has dominated landlocked and conflict-wracked Mali since August 2020, carrying out two coups and postponing elections it had previously committed to hold next month.

Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop submitted the new plans to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday, following a national reform conference boycotted by political parties and social organisations.

The plans are for a five-year prolongation of the transition …

Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has mourned the passing of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1, describing it as another tragedy in Yoruba land.

While describing the death of the revered monarch as a rude shock, Akeredolu said it came shortly after the demise of Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi, which he said was a big blow dealt on the traditional stool in Yoruba land.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Oba Adetunji, who was the 41st Olubadan, had in the early hours of Sunday given …

No fewer than 4,000 Mozambicans have fled their villages in a month due to intensifying jihadist attacks in Niassa, a province neighbouring insurgency hotbed Cabo Delgado, a government official disclosed yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that militants terrorising the gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province for the past four years have in recent weeks moved their attacks to the west into Niassa.

‘There are 3,803 displaced so far. These are people who fled from areas targeted by attacks in Mecula district,’ Felismino Patricio, a government spokesman in Niassa province, told newsmen.

The latest displacements add to the more than …

Fellow Nigerians,

I welcome us all to 2022.

In high spirits, I congratulate us all for making it thus far as, clearly, we have risen against all the odds that defined 2021 to defeat the travails the past year brought.

Without doubts, we are some of the biggest beneficiaries of God’s kindness to humankind and we must place our unflinching trust and belief in God Almighty as He dictates the affairs of men.

We all are survivors of 2021 and its challenges like sub-regional insecurity, a global cash crunch, severe food insecurity, biting climate change, shrinking forest resources in …

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,  Isa Pantami has announced that the deadline for the NIN-SIM verification has been shifted once more time to March 31, 2022. 

In a statement on Friday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the minister disclosed that the extension was necessary due to requests by stakeholders, including citizens, legal residents and Nigerians in the diaspora.

He explained that the extension would enable the Federal Government to consolidate the gains of the process and stimulate the enrolment of Nigerians in key areas such as those in …

Sudanese security forces on Thursday shot and killed four protesters as tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a security lockdown and severed communications to rally against military rule.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that pro-democracy activists have kept up a more than two-month-long campaign of street demonstrations against a military takeover in October.

The crackdown has now seen no fewer than 52 people killed in protest-related violence, according to the independent Doctors’ Committee, which is part of the pro-democracy movement.

On Thursday, security forces killed with live rounds four protesters in Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum, and …

No fewer than five people have been confirmed dead from a shooting spree across multiple locations in Colorado, which ended when an unidentified gunman was himself shot dead the police have disclosed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the trail of shooting began around 5:00 pm on Monday and unfolded across at least four different locations in the cities of Denver and Lakewood, said police, who had initially put the death toll at four.

About two women were killed and a man was wounded in the first location in Denver, police said, with another man shot dead outside his …

Over 2,000 flights have been cancelled and thousands delayed around the world as the highly infectious Omicron variant disrupts holiday travel.

According to tracking website Flightaware.com at 1540 GMT on Friday, a total of 2,118 flights had been cancelled worldwide, including 500 flights originating from or headed to US airports, and over 5,700 delayed.

Pilots, flights attendants and other staff have been calling in sick or having to quarantine after exposure to Covid, forcing Lufthansa, Delta, United Airlines and many other airlines to cancel flights.

According to Flightaware, United cancelled more than 170 flights on Friday, or nine percent of …

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA has asked the Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila-led legislative chamber to carry through with the passage of the bill to create the National Youth Service Corps Youths Trust Fund, adding that when passed, the bill would serve strategic national security interests.

HURIWA applauded the committee on youths and sports of the House of Representatives for pushing for the legislative mechanisms to be activated to ensure seamless passage of the proposed bill that will give teeth to the clarion call for the creation of the NYSC Youths Trust Fund.

HURIWA noted …

Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has enjoined Nigerians to use the Christmas period to reflect as “nobody will repair the country for us”.

In a Christmas message on Friday, Sylva urged Nigerians to eschew bitterness and embrace love and the spirit of forgiveness.

According to him, Nigeria could achieve greatness as a nation but not through attacks, promotion of hatred and condemnation.

He urged every Nigerian, irrespective of political and social leaning, to support the government’s efforts in finding permanent solutions to the nation’s economic and security challenges.

‘We must stop the blame games and focus on