Niger’s presidential guard on Saturday repelled “insurgents from within the armed forces” who tried to enter the presidential palace in Niamey, where shooting was ongoing, a security source told AFP. Heavy gunfire was heard in several neighbourhoods of the capital throughout the night, notably in the city centre near the presidential palace, but also…
The Niger State government has imposed a curfew on some communities in Rafi Local Government Area following renewed communal clashes that claimed lives and property. Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger said this during a visit to the communities affected by the clash between the Kamuku and Fulani in Tashar Bako. He directed security agencies to…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said the violence violence in Yelwata, Benue State which claimed about 200 lives is part of a broader pattern of intercommunal clashes in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, primarily between farmers and herders. DDHQ said this while dismissing reports that saboteurs within the Nigerian military contributed to the tragic events. The…
Escalating clashes in South Sudan have killed almost 200 people and displaced an estimated 125,000 more since March, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Tensions have increased over attacks in the northeastern Upper Nile State between forces allied to President Salva Kiir and his rival the first vice president, threatening a fragile power-sharing agreement that…
The Benue State Government has announced plans to conduct a livestock census to gather comprehensive data on animals and their owners across the state. The Principal Special Assistant to the State Governor on Livestock Development and Transboundary Animal Disease Control, Dr. Aondoaka Asambe, disclosed this on Monday in Makurdi after inspecting abattoirs and livestock markets….
At least 15 soldiers were killed on Monday during combat with armed terrorist groups near the border with Burkina Faso. This is according to a report by Niger’s defence ministry on Tuesday. The clash occurred along the Bankilare-Tera route near the village of Foneko. According to a communique read on state television, the ministry provided…
Five years after a near similar incident led to the killing of about 11 boys brigade and girls guide squad members, another similar skirmish was timely averted by the Gombe Police Command on Easter eve as youths in a mosque pelted the brigade squad with stones and other objects, destroying their drums and inflicting injuries…
