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The year 2025 could be called a devastating year for entrepreneurs, project managers and contractors as mafia groups continue to violently high jacking government projects.
In the first part of this article, I discussed the inadequacy of the international community’s response to the war of aggression by the RSF militia and its external sponsors against the Sudanese people and state (The Janjaweed Rebranded: Why the International Community’s Calls to RSF Fall on Deaf Ears?). Below, I argue that international law provides a firm foundation for peaceful resolution of the Sudan crisis.
At a meeting a few weeks ago in Abuja, Nigeria, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) defence chiefs and finance ministers, proposed a plan to deploy a 5 000-member regional counterterrorism force to combat the scourge of terrorist insurgency that has long been a cause for concern in West Africa.
Today marks a decade since Nigeria's most infamous mass abduction, almost 100 of the 276 girls seized from their school in Chibok by Boko Haram fighters are still thought to be in captivity.
The search continues for farmers who fled the attack following the tragedy on Sunday night.
Some of the more interesting things that happened on this day.
Embassy bombed from the air; radicals chop off businessman’s head; father of Nobel Awards patents dynamite; liner’s sinking helps end World War I
Russia downs spy plane; F1 champion dies leading Italian Grand Prix; no more elections, says Fidel Castro; star runner Caster Semenya loses her appeal; Elon Musk sabotages his own brand; and Russia’s take on Hitler’s heritage.
Around 10 soldiers were killed and others wounded early on Tuesday when jihadists attacked an army position in western Chad, the presidential office said.
The threat of insurgencies is transnational in nature, and addressing existing issues is not enough to curb the transnational element of insurgents, Abdisaid Muse Ali, the former minister of foreign affairs and international co-operation of Somalia, suggested at a hybrid lecture on strategies to address increasing security challenges in Africa.
OPINION: It’s not good to let people live in fear from criminal elements of society, and yet they have an elected government in power, writes Dr Mustafa Mheta.
The group committed crimes including murder, attempted murder, house robberies and they have also been convicted of being in South Africa illegally
OPINION:, The active and meaningful participation of young people in their societies and democratic practices and processes is crucial, writes Lulu White.
OPINION: Security challenges in Africa have become a monster. The AU should move away from rhetoric, writes Dr Omololu Fagbadebo.
OPINION: African countries’ decision to avoid condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine was not based only on issues directly connected to the conflict, writes Olayinka Ajala.
OPINION: Israel is not going anywhere. It is time that our government recognises this and starts working towards finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict, writes Kenneth Mokagatlhe.
The apparent leader of ’Boko Haram’ gang, identified as 35-year-old Phillip Given Mnguni, died on the N4 Highway near the Diamond Hill toll plaza.
A man was shot in the head several times during the day in full view of bystanders.
Around 6,000 people had returned to the Baroua area in June after fleeing jihadist attacks in 2015.
One abducted girl from the Nigerian town of Chibok has been freed and reunited with her parents seven years after Boko Haram militants kidnapped her and more than 200 of her classmates.