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Violence rages in Syria’s truce zone

Violence rages in Syria’s truce zone

June 8, 2019 8:23 am

Fighting is raging between Syrian government forces and rebels in a de-escalation zone where a truce should be in place, state media and activists reported on Saturday.

On Thursday, jihadist groups led by an Al-Qaeda-linked alliance and Turkish-backed rebels, launched a wide-scale attack on government forces in the northern countryside of Hama in central Syria, which is part of a demilitarised zone declared in September.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported that rebels have made territorial advances over the past two days, prompting government forces and allied Russians to step up an air campaign.

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Violence and intimidation marr re-run elections in Nigeria

March 23, 2019 12:02 pm

Violence and voter intimidation once again marred polls in Nigeria Saturday, as voters tried to take part in re-run governorship and state elections already postponed once because of unrest.

An opposition spokesman said some of their agents had been killed in the violence and called on election officials to cancel the vote again.

Armed men armed with machetes, knives and cudgels took over polling stations, assaulting observers and journalists in Kano, northwest Nigeria.

In Gama ward in Kano, men wielding machetes, daggers and cudgels invaded several polling stations, an AFP reporter saw, forcing voters to flee.

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Fake news worsening election violence – Lt.-Gen Buratai

March 17, 2019 9:31 pm

The Chief of Army Staff (CAS), Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, at the weekend in Bayelsa State, lamented that fake news is worsening violence during elections in the country and putting military operations in jeopardy.

The army chief, who spoke when he visited the 16 Brigade Camp Tukur Buratai, Elebele, in the outskirts of Yenagoa, the state capital, noted that the army set up a situation room real-time, commanded by its cyber warfare unit, to deal with the menace decisively during the last polls.

He was at the 16 Brigade Barracks to inaugurate several ongoing projects, including an Integrated Medical Centre, Quarter
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Jubril shoot-on-sight order is call for violence – Onuesoke

February 21, 2019 1:14 am

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described Jubril Al-Sudani’s ( Muhammadu Buhari’s Impostor) declaration that life will be snuffed out of anyone who snatches ballot boxes during the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections, as a call for violence.

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Elections: Incite violence, face severe penalties, UK warns

February 14, 2019 1:21 am

Moves to save guard Nigeria’s democracy has been stepped up with stern warning coming from Britain to politicians in Nigeria through the office of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms Catriona Laing.

The warning stipulates that any politician who pushes for violence in the forthcoming general elections on Saturday 16th, 2019 should be ready to have their visas banned and assets in the UK confiscated.

This was made known at a press briefing on Wednesday in Abuja at the unveiling of the Election Situation Room of the Civil Society set up by a coalition of civil society organisations to …

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Jubril, the impostor provoking violence, Atiku raises alarm

February 12, 2019 1:12 am

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused Jubril Al-Sudani, (the impostor being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari )of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of instigating violence ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

The “Lifeless President”(according to President Donald Trump)  had, while campaigning in Zamfara State, been reported to have said: “Come out and vote for our choice. May Allah grant us patience; May He bless us with bountiful harvest, because I want every one of us to be well fed so that even if it comes to violence we are ready.”…

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