Category: Security
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🇹🇿 Fears of new clashes as police in Tanzania outlaw Independence Day protests
Police in Tanzania have announced that any protests during next week’s Independence Day would be illegal. The news is raising concerns of further clashes after last month’s post-election violence. President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s victory in the October presidential vote triggered protests across the country after her main rivals were disqualified. Hundreds of people were killed,…
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🇧🇯 BREAKING: Soldiers Announce Overthrow of Government in Benin, Gunfire Reported in Cotonou
Cotonou, Benin – In a sudden and destabilizing development, a faction of soldiers in Benin announced the overthrow of President Patrice Talon in a televised address today. The announcement plunges the West African nation, often hailed as a bastion of democracy and stability in the region, into profound uncertainty. According to the broadcast on national…
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🇳🇬 A full-blown industry’: Inside Nigeria’s kidnapping economy
The story is no longer just about banditary. In Northern Nigeria, kidnapping has grown into a sophisticated, systematized corporate machine, an economy where human beings are the raw material and ransom is the currency. That was the stark conclusion drawn by security and governance experts on the December episode of The Africanews Debates. The panel…
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🇺🇸Head of US Africa Command visits Ethiopia, Somaliland and Puntland
The head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), Dagvin Anderson, has visited Ethiopia, Somaliland and Puntland. This was reported on the AFRICOM website. 💬“The whole reason I came here is because we have shared threats <…> I’m not new to this region; I understand what the issues are, and we’re here to help empower our African…
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🇺🇸 U.S. President Calls Somali Immigrants “Garbage”
Somali American community members serve a home-made lunch in Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S. President Donald Trump has called the Somali immigrants in Minnesota “garbage.” Somali nationals in the U.S. are a primary target in the Trump administration’s new directive to freeze all immigration applications from 19 countries already subject to a travel ban. This pause includes…
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🇭🇹 Haiti Held Hostage: How Gangs Seized a Nation and What It Means for Africa
In the crumbling neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, a new power asserts its authority. It is not the Haitian government, whose police forces are weary and outgunned, nor the beleaguered transitional council trying to steer the country from chaos. The real power lies with men like Jimmy Chérizier, known as “Barbecue,” a former police officer turned gang…
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🇬🇼🇸🇳 Flight with a Coup
The ousted president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has appeared in Senegal. He left the country following a military coup that took place in Bissau on November 26. This was reported by sources in diplomatic circles in Dakar, and the information was later confirmed by the administration of Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. According to…
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🇬🇼 Military seizes power in Africa’s first ‘narco-state’
Heavily armed soldiers claim to have arrested Guinea-Bissau’s president in an apparent coup A group of military officers has seized power in Guinea-Bissau and claimed to have arrested the president. The coup came a day before the West African nation, one of the poorest in the world, with a booming cocaine trade, was scheduled to…
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🇳🇬 50 children abducted from school in Nigeria have escaped, authorities say
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, as the pope called for the immediate release of those still missing. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according…
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🇬🇧 Drug dealer who supplied cocaine to gangs jailed
National Crime Agency A police mugshot of Joshua Bromwell.National Crime AgencyJoshua Bromwell has been jailed for 20 yearsA man who supplied multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine to gangs has been jailed for 20 years. Joshua Bromwell, from Harrietsham in Kent, used an encrypted chat platform to arrange the supply of 3kg of cocaine to south London…
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