Nigeria: Turmoil at the Nigerian ruling partyF

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Abuja, June 23, 2020 – Nigerian police on Tuesday closed the headquarters of the ruling All Progressive Congress to “maintain peace” as an intra-party legal battle raged over the appointment of an acting national chairman. About 15 police officers...

Nigeria expresses anger at demolition of embassy building in GhanaF

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Nigeria summoned a senior Ghanaian diplomat to complain over “attacks” on its embassy compound in Accra that saw a building demolished, the foreign minister said on Monday.  “Summoned the Charge d’Affaires of the High Commission of Ghana to...

Turkey reeling from Covid-19 losses of more than 5,000 peopleF

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Istanbul, June 23, 2020 – Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has crossed 5,000 and the number of infections have exceeded 190,000, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday. The minister, who shares daily virus data on Twitter, said 27 more deaths were...

Blast kills two outside Turkish military training camp in MogadishuF

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Mogadishu, June 23, 2020 – Two people were killed on Tuesday by an Al-Shabaab suicide bomb outside Turkey’s military training base in Somalia, according to the army chief. The army chief Brigadier General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh told state media that the...

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...