Security

The attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, by Al-Shabab Islamist militants caused the death of at least 21 civilians, according to a new official report on Sunday. The attack lasted 30 hours until Saturday evening, according to reports. The attack was the bloodiest in Somali Capital since …

Authorities in Ukraine acknowledged on Monday that nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of the Russian invasion six months ago. Speaking at a forum in Kyiv, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, General Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukrainian children needed special attention because their fathers had gone …

Armed men in Nigeria abducted four nuns of the Catholic Church in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, on a notorious highway, the local convent said. A Catholic priest was also kidnapped last week on the same highway . “The four nuns were on their way to a morning mass on …

Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the Student Representative Council (SRC) in Ghana, Raphael Sarkodie, has revealed that high school students now carry guns in school, Ghana Pulse reported. According to Mr Sakodie, Ghana students reel frequently from pains of the criminal use of guns. “The trend has become problematic even during …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will not enter into any negotiations on the ongoing war unless Russian troops withdraw from Ukrainian territory. He made the announcement during a press conference on Thursday August 18. While negotiations on peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine are currently being led by Turkey …

Police in southern Nigeria have arrested three people following the discovery of 20 mummified bodies near Benin city in Edo state. The corpses were found in a building suspected to be used for a voodoo shrine. A police spokesman, Chidi Nwabuzor, told the BBC that the corpses of 15 men, …

Deadly attacks by armed groups are increasingly frequent in the Sahel, where terrorist threat extends from the northern regions of coastal countries. Should coastal countries prepare and anticipate their security and political responses? Now that France left Mali at the insistence of the Bamako junta while the situation is worse …

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filed a lawsuit on Monday against the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo, accused of recording their conversations and copying content onto their phones and computers. The lawyers and two journalists who joined the suit are all Americans and claim the intelligence agency …

German troops spotted several dozen Russian security forces at Gao airport in northern Mali on Monday, the day the last French soldiers completed their operations and left the country, Reuters reported citing a German military document dated Tuesday. The document said 20 to 30 persons in military uniforms not belonging …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused the United States of “dragging” the Ukrainian conflict and seeking to “destabilize” the world. According to the Russian president, the United States is trying to destabilize the world, alluding to the recent visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the United States House of …