Security

Three officers of the Ghana Immigration Service have sustained serious injuries in an attack on the Aflao border in the Volta Region, Ghana, according to reports. The officers, who were patrolling Beat 6 of the Aflao border, were accosted by as yet unidentified persons who threw stones at them for …

Russian authorities have announced that they have placed International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan on Russia’s wanted list. International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has been placed on Russia’s wanted list. It was announced by the Russian Interior Ministry, two months after the ICC issued an arrest warrant …

In the early hours of Friday morning, Nigerian joint security services say they rescued two people who were abducted during an attack on a US convoy in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday, local media reported. They are thought to be physically unharmed. The police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu …

Police in Nigeria say gunmen have attacked a US convoy, killing four people, including two personnel from the US consulate and two police officers. Three others were kidnapped before their vehicle was set on fire. The attack took place in south-eastern Anambra state. A rescue and recovery operation is under …

Nearly 900 people were executed in 2022 in 20 countries, a record level since 2017, criticizes Amnesty International in its annual report on the death penalty, denouncing the “murderous frenzy” of certain countries. The human rights organization counted 883 people executed in 20 countries in 2022, an increase of 53% …

A 78-year-old American, a permanent resident of Hong Kong, has been sentenced in China to life in prison for “espionage”, a local court announced on Monday. John Shing-wan Leung, also known as Liang Chengyun, “was guilty of espionage and was sentenced to life imprisonment as well as lifetime deprivation of …

A federal judge has struck down a law that for more than half a century has banned licensed gunsmiths from selling guns to young people under 21. The decision, dated Wednesday, represents a major setback for advocates of better gun control as they try to convince Congress to ban younger …

The US ambassador to Pretoria has made a damning accusation against the South African government – and it seems to have caught South African officials off-guard. Ambassador Reuben Brigety says that the US has reliable intelligence that South Africa supplied arms and ammunition to a Russian ship which had docked, …

Agence France-Presse journalist Arman Soldin has been killed in rocket strike in eastern Ukraine, the media reported on Tuesday. AFP’s video coordinator in Ukraine, Arman Soldin, was killed Tuesday afternoon in a Grad rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, according to AFP journalists accompanying him. Nous avons la douleur d'annoncer que …

Gunmen have attacked a church in north-west Nigeria’s Kaduna state, kidnapping at least 25 members of the congregation, local media reported. According to an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria, the gunmen burst into the Bege Baptist Church in Chikun initially abducting 40 people but 15 managed to escape. …