Northern Nigeria braces for more violent insurgencyF

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Kano, Nigeria, June 18, 2020 (By Aminu Abubakar and Celia Lebur in Lagos) – The attacks were swift and brutal: fleeing villagers were gunned down or crushed under the wheels of trucks. When the Islamist fighters left, dozens of mangled bodies lay scattered...
Tunisia: Unrest in Tataouine over unemploymentF

Tunisia: Unrest in Tataouine over unemploymentF

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Tataouine, Tunisia, June 21, 2020 – Protesters demanding jobs in Tunisia’s energy sector blocked roads with blazing tyres on Sunday after the arrest of an activist, as security forces responded with tear gas. For weeks, demonstrators have erected a protest...

ISWAP strikes in Gubio LGA, Borno stateF

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Kano, Nigeria, June 21, 2020 – Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have killed six people in raids on herding villages in northeast Nigeria, militia and residents said Sunday. Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked Bunuri and...

Doctors in Nigeria halt their strike as Covid-19 cases increaseF

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Lagos, June 21, 2020 – Nigerian doctors in state-run hospitals on Sunday called off a week-long strike over welfare and inadequate protective equipment as new coronavirus cases spike in the country. The strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors...

Turkey attacks northern Iraq, civilians killedF

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Arbil, Iraq, June 19, 2020 – The civilian death toll of Turkish air raids in northern Iraq rose to five on Friday, local officials said, as Ankara kept up a cross-border offensive against Turkish Kurdish rebels. One Turkish soldier also died in northern Iraq on...

Turkish basketballer’s father acquitted of terror chargesF

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Istanbul, June 19, 2020  – The father of Turkish NBA player Enes Kanter has been acquitted on charges of belonging to a terror group, Turkish media reported Friday, as the basketballer hailed his father’s release. Mehmet Kanter, a university professor, was...

Nigeria’s southwest’s pig farmers in turmoilF

Friday, June 19, 2020

Lagos, June 19, 2020 (By Joel Olatunde AGOI) – Swine fever has killed thousands of pigs in southwest Nigeria as the region has been hit by the worst outbreak in almost two decades, farmers said Friday.  The disease appears to have first broken out at a major...
ISWAP strikes in Nigerian state of Borno again, kills dozensF

ISWAP strikes in Nigerian state of Borno again, kills dozensF

Monday, June 15, 2020

Kano, Nigeria, June 14, 2020 – Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in the latest of a flurry of bloody attacks in northeast Nigeria, local sources said Sunday.  Inhabitants of remote Goni Usmanti village told AFP that fighters...

Covid-19 confinement in Nigeria leads to spike in rape casesF

Monday, June 15, 2020

Abuja, June 15, 2020 – Nigeria’s police chief on Monday said the country had seen a sharp increase in cases of rape and domestic abuse of women during coronavirus lockdowns. “It has come to the public knowledge now that because of the COVID-19...

Six killed in ISWAP attack on MongunoF

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Kano, Nigeria, June 13, 2020 – Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed six people Saturday in an assault on a strategic garrison town in restive northeast Nigeria, security sources and residents said.    Dozens of fighters believed to be from the...