Haruna Umar and Sam Olukoya | AP
- Jun 26, 2020
In Nigeria, an Islamic State-linked group steps up attacks
An Islamic State-linked group appears to be regaining strength in northeastern Nigeria and is now warning it will target civilians who help the military or even humanitarian organizations. The Islamic State in West Africa Province, which broke away from Boko Haram in 2016, had appeared weakened earlier this year by internal feuding, said Nnamdi Obasi, the senior adviser for Nigeria at the International Crisis Group. But earlier this month it killed more than 120 people in a s
OHCHR
- Jun 26, 2020
580 killed in central Mali so far in 2020 as security worsens - Bachelet
580 civilians have been killed so far this year in central Mali, as a deteriorating security situation and widespread impunity undermine efforts to protect civilians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Friday. Violent disputes between the Peulh and Dogon communities, have increased in recent months, with community-based militias, initially formed to defend communities becoming increasingly violent and involved in attacks against other communities.
Al Jazeera
- Jun 26, 2020
Rohingya say dozens perished in months-long voyage to Malaysia
Survivors from boat crammed with 300 refugees say bodies were thrown in the sea during the tortuous four-month voyage. Survivors from a boat crammed with more than 300 Rohingya refugees have recounted to Malaysian authorities how dozens had perished during a tortuous four-month voyage and their bodies thrown in the sea. The head of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) described the ordeal suffered by Rohingya whose damaged boat had made land on the Malaysian islan
Joseph Stepanksy | Al Jazeera
- Jun 26, 2020
Challenges ahead as UN set to extend 'most dangerous' mission
The United Nations Security Council is expected next week to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA. Often dubbed the UN's most "dangerous mission", MINUSMA will enter its eighth year at the centre of a multilayered and complicated conflict that has spread across the Sahel, a semi-arid region directly south of the Sahara desert in northwestern and central Africa. Its challenges are myriad: a volatile environment that often proves deadly for UN forces,
Sélim Meddeb Hamrouni | UNHCR
- Jun 26, 2020
More than 30,000 refugees flee violence in northwestern Nigeria in last two months alone
More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger’s Maradi region during the past two months alone, tripling the number who have fled there since last year. They are fleeing growing insecurity and atrocities across north-western Nigeria, most of it at the hands of armed gangs that rob, loot, rape and kill. The latest population movement was triggered by an extremely violent attack on the village of Gangara. As soon as they heard the first gunshots, Habsou and her young
Al Jazeera
- Jun 25, 2020
Gunmen kill more than dozen civilians in eastern DR Congo attacks
Local officials say at least 19 people killed in the eastern part of country in two separate attacks by ADF fighters. At least 19 civilians have been killed in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend in attacks blamed on a notorious armed group, local officials said. Nine people were kidnapped on Friday by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), and their bodies were found in the province of North Kivu, which borders Rwanda, regional administrator Dona
Marija Ristic | Balkan Insight
- Jun 24, 2020
Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor Charges Thaci with War Crimes
A ten-count indictment has been filed against Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci charging him with crimes allegedly committed in the independence war of the late-1990s, including murder and torture. The Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, SPO, according to a press statement on Wednesday, has filed a ten-count indictment with the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, KSC, charging Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, the Kosovo politician Kadri Veseli, and others with a range of crimes a
Samuel Okiror | The Guardian
- Jun 24, 2020
Uganda reopens border to thousands of people fleeing violence in DRC
Call for other African countries to reopen for refugees, after crossings were shut to stem the spread of coronavirus Uganda has temporarily opened its border to thousands of people fleeing deadly ethnic clashes in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Ugandan government closed its reception centres at border crossings in March in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But last week President Yoweri Museveni instructed the minister of relief, disa
Aj Jazeera
- Jun 23, 2020
Al-Shabab claims suicide attack outside Turkish base in Somalia
At least two civilians and attacker killed in the first attack targeting the military base in Mogadishu, officials say. A suicide bomber's explosives were detonated outside a Turkish military training base in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least two people, police said on Tuesday. It was the first time the Turkish base in Mogadishu, Turkey's largest overseas military base, had been attacked by the al-Qaeda-linked rebel group al-Shabab. The Somalia-based group quickl
Felix Onuah, Reuters
- Jun 22, 2020
Nigeria's president rebukes security chiefs over worsening violence
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s president criticised his heads of security on Thursday for their handling of attacks across the north of the country and said more needs to be done to resolve the problem, the national security adviser said. The comments attributed to Muhammadu Buhari are some of his sharpest criticisms of his security chiefs as the conflict in the north has steadily worsened through most of his five years as president. Security forces in Nigeria, which plays a key
Ruth Maclean, New York Times
- Jun 22, 2020
When the Soldiers Meant to Protect You Instead Come to Kill
Market day was in full swing when soldiers sped into the northern town of Taouremba, firing in the air, as their drone buzzed overhead. They herded the men into the central marketplace, residents said, letting the women run home. A soldier began reading names from a tablet computer, and those who were called forward were told to strip, then tied up with their own clothes and thrown into a pickup truck. When some men tried to hide in the crowd, two informants in hoods and veil
Al Jazeera
- Jun 21, 2020
Somalia: At least seven killed in two bomb attacks
Attacks targeted towns of Wanlaweyn and Bacadweyn on Saturday and Sunday. At least seven people have died in two separate bomb attacks in Somalia in the last 24 hours, police and military officers said on Sunday. In the first incident, two bombs planted in front of the home of a military official in the town of Wanlaweyn, 90km (56 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, exploded late on Saturday, killing four people, including soldiers and civilians. No group has claimed r
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