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Apr
14
2024
By CAMILLUS EBOH
Nigerian military swoops on militants and oil thieves in week-long operation

Nigerian military swoops on militants and oil thieves in week-long operation

NEWS
NIGERIA'S military said it had inflicted heavy losses on Islamist militant groups in the north and oil thieves in the south, arresting hundreds, seizing weapons and rescuing kidnap victims in a week-long operation. Defence spokesperson Major-General Edward Buba said in a statement that troops had killed or wounded 188 militants and arrested 330 suspects across different locations in the country. Security forces also arrested 36 suspected oil thieves in the Niger Delta region and freed 133 kidnap victims, seizing around 270 weapons and more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition during the entire operation. "The armed forces are working decisively to…
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Sep
27
2023
By JOHN IRISH and EDWARD MCALLISTER
Analysis: West losing sight of Sahel after France announces Niger withdrawal

Analysis: West losing sight of Sahel after France announces Niger withdrawal

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FRANCE'S decision to pull 1,500 troops from Niger leaves a gaping hole in Western efforts to counter a decade-long Islamist insurgency and could bolster Russian influence across the vast, insecure scrublands of West Africa, analysts and diplomats said. Niger was the West's last key ally in the central Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert until a July 26 coup brought in a military junta which called for France to leave. France's forces have already been kicked out of neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso following coups in those countries, weakening its influence in its former colonies amid a wave of anti-French…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

NEWS
SOMALIA will start electing its president and other officials by direct vote next year, the government announced, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa country that has endured three decades of conflict and clan battles. Amid widespread insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and weak state structures, in recent years lawmakers voted for the president, while clan heads and elders elected lawmakers in both the federal government and regional states. The country had initially been scheduled to revert to universal suffrage in 2020 but protracted squabbles among politicians and persisting insecurity across the country forced the…
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Feb
18
2023
By The African Mirror
U.N. seeks $1.3 billion for Nigerians affected by insurgency

U.N. seeks $1.3 billion for Nigerians affected by insurgency

NEWS
THE United Nations appealed for $1.3 billion to provide assistance to six million Nigerians who are suffering the impact of a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast of the country. The militant Boko Haram group and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have been fighting Nigerian security forces in the northeast for over a decade, displacing more than 2 million people and killing hundreds of others, aid agencies say. Matthias Schmale, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator for Nigeria said the "large-scale humanitarian and protection crisis shows no sign of abating". The number of children suffering from acute malnutrition…
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Jul
14
2022
By The African Mirror
Ivory Coast asks Mali to immediately release 49 arrested soldiers

Ivory Coast asks Mali to immediately release 49 arrested soldiers

NEWS
IVORY Coast demanded the release of 49 of its soldiers arrested in Mali, an incident that may worsen tensions between Mali's military rulers and other West African nations amid efforts to quell an Islamist insurgency and restore democratic rule. The Ivorian soldiers were arrested on Sunday at Mali's main international airport in the capital Bamako. Mali's military government said the troops arrived without permission, that some of their passports indicated non-military professions, and that they gave differing versions of their mandate. The junta said the soldiers would be considered mercenaries and charged as such, adding that Ivorian authorities were unaware…
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Apr
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Nigeria bars calls from unregistered phones in attempt to boost security

Nigeria bars calls from unregistered phones in attempt to boost security

NEWS
NIGERIA has repeated its demand for telecom companies to bar calls from unregistered phone lines, part of the government's policy to boost security amid an Islamist insurgency and a spate of kidnappings. The country's telecoms regulator had in December 2020 ordered mobile phone providers to add identification numbers (NINs) - containing personal data identifying the user - to every SIM card registered in the country or block the SIMs. The government had extended the SIM registration deadline several times before the latest directive to bar calls from unregistered SIMs. Communication Minister Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami said in a statement outgoing…
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Jun
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia to hold indirect election on October 10

Somalia to hold indirect election on October 10

NEWS
SOMALIA will indirectly pick a new president on October 10, the prime minister has announced, potentially easing a political crisis brought on by a delay in holding the election. After a series of meetings between the main parties, clan elders will now pick lawmakers in September, who will then vote for a president on the new date, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble was quoted as saying by the state news agency (SONNA). Under the indirect election system, clan elders were meant to have selected lawmakers in December and the new lawmakers were due to elect a new president on February…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s military investigates reports of Boko Haram leader’s death

Nigeria’s military investigates reports of Boko Haram leader’s death

NEWS
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA’S military is investigating reports that the leader of militant Islamist group Boko Haram may have been killed or seriously injured following clashes with rival jihadists, according to an army spokesman. Abubakar Shekau has been the figurehead of an Islamist insurgency that has since 2009 killed more than 30,000 people, forced around 2 million people to flee their homes and spawned one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. A number of reports published on Thursday in Nigeria media, citing intelligence sources, said Shekau was seriously hurt or killed after his insurgents clashed with members of Islamic State in…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Exclusive: SA’s military solution for Mozambique

Exclusive: SA’s military solution for Mozambique

NEWS
WENDELL ROELF SOUTH Africa will press for urgent military action by regional body SADC to quell an Islamist insurgency in Mozambique threatening to destabilize neighbouring countries, the foreign minister has said. It will make this call at a summit of the Southern African Development Community's 16 member states next week, Naledi Pandor told Reuters in a telephone interview. SADC leaders have been discussing how to tackle the insurgency by Islamic State-linked militants, with an option for force, but this is the first time South Africa has explicitly thrown its weight behind the idea of military intervention. View Post Since 2008,…
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Apr
03
2021
By The African Mirror
Boko Haram claim shooting down of Nigerian Air Force jet

Boko Haram claim shooting down of Nigerian Air Force jet

NEWS
ISLAMIST insurgency Boko Haram claimed the shooting down of a Nigerian Air Force fighter jet in a video seen by Reuters on yesterday, two days after the aeroplane went missing in the country's northeast. Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video. The loss of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet 475 dealt a blow to Nigeria's efforts to combat jihadist insurgencies in the northeast, where airpower has been crucial in attempts to stem the spread of Boko Haram and its more powerful offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province. Soldiers have for years relied on jet bombardments to…
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