Tunisia to Participate in Joint Military Exercises With France, U.S. and Germany
The Tunisian army has scheduled a series of joint military exercises in 2017, with the collaboration of some European countries and the United States, Belhassen Oueslati, spokesman of Tunisian Defense Ministry, said on Thursday. The spokesman confirmed that these military exercises will cover separate periods in 2017 and different regions of the country, while some […]
Nigerian Army Accuses Amnesty of Fabricating Report of Extrajudicial Killings, Torture
The Nigerian military has accused human rights organisation, Amnesty International (AI), of fabricating its latest report about extrajudicial killings and torture of 240 people in the country’s north-east and 177 pro-Biafran agitators. In a statement signed by acting director defence information, Rabe Abubakar, a brigadier general, the military described the report as a continuation of […]
U.S. Lawmakers Urge Kenya to Reconsider Overpriced Sh43 Billion Weapons Deal
Five members of the US Congress are urging the Kenyan government to reconsider a proposed sh43 billion purchase of 12 armed aircraft and related elements intended for use in Somalia against Al-Shabaab. Four Republicans, joined by a Democratic member of the Congressional Black Caucus, suggested on Tuesday in a letter to Nairobi’s envoy to Washington […]
More South Sudan Military Officials Resign
A brigadier general and a colonel have resigned from the South Sundanese armed forces. Both have accused President Salva Kiir’s government of corruption and protecting soldiers from his ethnic group. Two top military officials overseeing South Sudan’s military courts have resigned. Both are claiming that high-level interference made it impossible to discipline soldiers accused of […]
Rival Rebel Groups Kill Central African Republic Civilians
TENSIONS between rebel groups in the troubled Central African Republic have left scores dead in recent days. Rights groups confirmed rebels from the Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC), recently executed 25 people in Bakala after calling them to a school for an allegedmeeting. UPC fighters also executed seven men who were […]
South Sudan Army Troops Accused of Mass Rape of Women And Girls At Gunpoint
Officials in South Sudan say army troops entered a village near the capital, Juba, on Sunday and raped at least a half-dozen women and girls, some of them at gunpoint. The alleged rapes occurred less than two weeks after South Sudanese President Salva Kiir issued a warning that soldiers who commit acts of rape and […]
1,900 Mozambicans Stranded in Moza, Zim Border Fleeing The Banditry Renamo
SOME 1 900 Mozambicans are stranded at the border with Zimbabwe after fleeing the banditry by opposition forces in their country. The Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) is blamed for the terror, which has continued despite assurances by government leaders a truce was within reach with the opposition party. United Nations agencies said they were mobilizing […]
Faith and Money From the Middle East Fuelling Tensions in the Horn of Africa
Relations between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula go back centuries, with trade playing a key component in binding their people together. Religion has also played a part. The expansion of Wahhabism – the interpretation of Islam propagated by Saudi Arabia – has been funded by the massive oil wealth of the kingdom. […]
President Adama Barrow Requests Ecowas Force to Remain for 6 Months
The ECOWAS Commission has said its coalition force in The Gambia would remain for the next six months, as requested by President Adama Barrow. Marcel de Souza said this while briefing members of the diplomatic corps and partner organisations on the political situation in The Gambia on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. De Souza, however, said […]
United Nations’ Chilling Findings in South Sudan
MEMBERS of the Security Council, the United Nations’ supreme decision-making body, have made terrifying findings in crisis-torn South Sudan. In a report released on Monday, officials reported people living in destitute conditions and terrified to leave civilian protection sites, parents struggling to feed their families and civil society activists trying to improve conditions for their […]
