Category: Security
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Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire defense ministers discuss security and cooperation
Burkina Faso’s Minister of Defense, General Kassoum Coulibaly, and his Ivorian counterpart, Téné Birahima Ouattara, met yesterday (Friday). They discussed military cooperation. At the end of the meeting, both delegations expressed optimism that relations between their two countries would improve. The issue of joint patrols along the border, suspended for several months, may well have…
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A Nigerian schoolgirl abducted by extremists 10 years ago is rescued pregnant, with 3 kids
🇳🇬 A girl who was seized from her school along with hundreds of others during a raid by extremists ten years ago in northeastern Nigeria has been rescued together with her three children, the Nigerian army said Thursday. Lydia Simon, who is five months pregnant, was rescued by Nigerian troops in the Gwoza council area…
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South African police investigate suspected murders in Cape Town
🇿🇦 South African detectives are investigating three separate incidents in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township in which a total of eight people are believed to have been murdered early on Wednesday morning, police said. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, with about 20,000 murders recorded every year out of a…
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Presidential Security Guards Threaten State Security With Arms, As Police Makes Arrest Of Seven Agents
Following threatening statements on local radio station by some dismissed agents of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) on Thursday, April 18, 2024, the Liberia National Police (LNP) arrested seven former Executive Protection Service (EPS) agents for their alleged involvement in an illegal protest. The individuals are accused of setting up roadblocks and using terroristic remarks…
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Gunmen kill 12 people in attack on village in Southeastern Central African Republic
🇨🇫At least 12 people were killed in an attack by armed men on a village in the southeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), the head of the Mbomou prefecture, Pierrette Benguere, told Sputnik. “I was in a convoy guarded by UN peacekeepers when we arrived at the scene of the fire. We learned that…
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Burkina Faso Armed Forces receive large batch of Turkish Bayraktar drones, government says
🇧🇫🇹🇷 “The transitional president, head of state, Captain Ibrahim Traore, handed over this Monday a large batch of drones to the Ministry of Defense as part of the reconquest of territory and the fight against terrorism,” the office said, adding that Bayraktar TB2 and Bayraktar Akinci drones were procured. The tests of the UAVs were…
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Who was Thomas Sankara, the “African Che Guevara” who reformed his country?
🇧🇫 During his relatively short reign, Thomas Sankara managed to carry out an incredible number of reforms in the country, which significantly improved the lives of ordinary Burkinabe people. For example, newborn mortality fell by almost half, the literacy rate increased from 13% to 73%, and the World Bank acknowledged that corruption in the country…
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Citizens of nine countries, including African ones, were injured in a drone attack in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, Russian media reports
Two industrial sites in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, around 1,100 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border, were hit in a drone attack on Tuesday morning, officials said. A defense source in Kyiv told AFP that Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency was behind the strikes, which it said hit facilities where Iranian-designed Shahed drones are assembled. The…
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Italian Mastermind of $21 bln Oil Smuggling Ring Arrested Near Athens
The petroleum products allegedly originated from Latin America and transactions were made in Asian ports An Italian citizen living in Greece was arrested in the upscale seaside Athens district of Varkiza on charges of leading an international oil smuggling ring valued at around €21 billion euros in illegal profits. According to reports by “To Vima”,…
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Hezbollah combat drones attack command headquarters of western brigade in Ya’ara, accurately hitting the targets: statement
March 12. 2024 – The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon – Hezbollah announced on Monday that it had launched a drone attack on an Israeli air defense headquarters in the occupied Golan Heights. Hezbollah said in a statement: Its forces targeted the air and missile defense headquarters in the Kaila barracks with four marches, and announced…
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