Addis Ababa — More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of them arrived earlier this week. Exhausted and traumatized, they have arrived with very little, only taking […]
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The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Gambians Abroad, Dr. Mamadou Tangara, has embarked on an official visit to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Prime Minister, Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, 8th February 2023. Honourable Minister Dr. Tangara took the opportunity to deliver a […]
“It needs to be stated that the Armed Forces of Nigeria is a professional military that is loyal to the constitution of the Federal Republic and will never be part of any evil plot against our democracy.” Two weeks to Nigeria’s presidential and legislative elections, the country’s military has denied reports that its officers are […]
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dissociated self from alleged plans by the Armed Forces of Nigeria to truncate the country’s democracy. The director, defence information, Major General Tukur Gusau, stated this while reacting to reports of an alleged meeting with a presidential candidate by serving military officers on Thursday. He restated that the armed forces […]
Harare — Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Khartoum on February 8, 2023 as part of an African tour, seeking to expand influence. The visit came at a time when Western nations sought to isolate Moscow with sanctions over the war in Ukraine. According to Sudanese state media, Lavrov’s visit was aimed at seeking […]
Abuja — National Security Adviser, NSA, Maj. Gen. Babagana Mongonu, retd, has appealed to the House of Representatives to evolve practicable solutions to the attendant economic crisis arising from the scarcity of the redesigned naira notes, saying soldiers on the frontline in the fight against insurgency, banditry and other violent crimes were facing financial difficulties. […]
The troops eliminated the terrorists in various operations in the N North-east, North-central and North-west zones of the country. The Defence Headquarters says troops of the armed forces have eliminated 77 terrorists in various operations, across theatres of operations in the North-east, North-central and North-west in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence Media Operations, […]
Harare — At least 38 people were killed, and more than 130 others injured following two days of fighting in Las Anod town, in Somalia’s northern breakaway region of Somaliland, reports VOA. Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has urged the Somali government to establish an objective, effective, and independent inquiry into […]
As men are being slaughtered on all sides in a grinding war of attrition for the control of destroyed Ukrainian cities, the new Cold War between Russia and the West is being played out on another front — Africa. On 7 December 2022, a 12-member delegation from Burkina Faso led by Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim […]
The Russian cargo vessel Lady R is currently at anchor off Beira having sailed from the South Africa Naval Base at Simon’s Town on 9 December, where it apparently loaded and unloaded cargo at night during blackouts (load-shedding). Commercial cargo ships do not normally go to naval bases. Nothing has been said officially, but South […]
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) says an investigation is underway into a video depicting South African soldiers as watching, as deceased bodies are thrown into a fire. According to a SANDF statement, the gruesome video – which has been circulating on social media – was allegedly shot in Mozambique. Members of the SANDF […]
Gaborone, Botswana — Botswana has announced the country has lost a sixth soldier sent to fight insurgents in Mozambique. Botswana Defense Force spokesperson Magosi Moshagane said in a recent media statement that the unnamed soldier committed suicide in Cabo Delgado province, where African troops are battling Islamist insurgents. Moshagane said investigations are under way to […]
Any South African National Defence Force soldier found guilty will be ‘brought to book’. Defence officials are investigating a “despicable” video circulating on social media which seems to show regional soldiers, including at least one member of the South African National Defence Force, contemptuously tossing the bodies of dead insurgents onto a pile of burning […]
US air strikes in Somalia increased 30 percent in 2022, as the Biden administration increased US involvement in the Horn of Africa country that is experiencing a fresh wave of fighting between the government and al-Shabaab militants. The Pentagon conducted 15 air strikes in 2022 on the al-Qaeda-linked group, according to the Long War Journal […]
Mogadishu — Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called on young al-Shabab fighters he says are “brainwashed” to surrender to the government amid ongoing military offensives against the group. Speaking at a mosque in the country’s capital Friday, Mohamud, who last year after his election for second term declared an “all-out war” against the Islamist […]
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Mali Pardons 49 Ivorian Soldiers
The soldiers were arrested in July and accused of conspiring against the Malian government. Three had been sentenced to death in absentia. Mali’s transitional government has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers arrested earlier this year, a spokesman said on Friday. The soldiers were arrested in July at the airport in the Malian capital Bamako and were […]
Al-Shabaab is acquiring UAV drones The deployment of improvised explosive drones by extremist organizations is posing fresh concerns to the countries in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya face a growing threat, according to representatives of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). Al-Shabaab and other militant organizations are already working on the ability […]
Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura, has said the militarization of elections has now taken a new dimension, calling upon Ugandans to rise up and kick “gun rule” out of the country. Nyanjura explained that the military intervention in the Makerere University convocation elections is one such example. She said originally the militarization of elections […]