Angry soldiers have blocked off access to Bouaké, the second largest city in the Ivory Coast, as a revolt over a pay dispute continues. One of the uprising’s leaders said the soldiers were “ready to fight” if attacked. Sergeant Seydou Koné said they did not want to negotiate with anyone, according to Reuters news agency. … Read more
Angry soldiers have blocked off access to Bouaké, the second largest city in the Ivory Coast, as a revolt over a pay dispute continues. One of the uprising’s leaders said the soldiers were “ready to fight” if attacked. Sergeant Seydou Koné said they did not want to negotiate with anyone, according to Reuters news agency. … Read more
A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a video seen by Reuters on Saturday. The man who gave his name as Abu Dardaa confirmed that he was arrested in Gombe State after detonating bombs. He said he had returned to his ‘brothers’ in … Read more
Defiant soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast’s second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air throughout the night, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. Rebellious soldiers had already taken to the streets Friday in Bouake, the economic capital of Abidjan and another city demanding pay increases. The city of Bouake was … Read more
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Afram Plains South, Mr Eric Osei-Owusu, has expressed worry at the increased destruction of crops by army worms in the Afram Plains. He told the Daily Graphic that about 20 farms he visited in the area last week had most of their crops destroyed by army worms. Mr Osei-Owusu, … Read more
A UN committee has condemned the “widespread practice of torture” in Pakistan by police, the military and intelligence agencies in a report published Friday, and called on Islamabad to implement urgent reforms to the law. “The police engage in the widespread practice of torture throughout the territory, … with a view to obtaining confessions from … Read more
Disgruntled Ivorian soldiers took to the streets of Abidjan and two other cities on Friday, firing angrily into the air a day after publicly apologising for a string of recent uprisings. Rebellious troops surrounded the military’s headquarters in Abidjan after a spokesman for the protesters publicly apologised to the president for a January mutiny which … Read more
Myanmar’s army chief defended his military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims by comparing it to Britain’s campaign to tackle sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, according to a statement released by his office Friday. UN investigators believe Myanmar’s security forces may have carried out ethnic cleansing of the persecuted minority during a months-long operation in the … Read more
The Ghana COCOBOD has ruled out any significant impact of the army worm infestation on the output for cocoa for the 2016/2017 crop season. COCOBOD explains to Citi Business News it has managed the situation to prevent a widespread infestation. The Public Affairs Manager of COCOBOD, Noah Amenyah however admitted that the pests have affected … Read more
A Mexican businesswoman who headed a group of 600 families searching for their disappeared relatives has been killed. Miriam Rodriguez Martinez was shot in her home in the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas state. She was known for successfully investigating the kidnap and murder of her daughter by a local drug cartel, the Zetas. … Read more
President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered to the Ministry of Finance to release GHC16million to fight the invasion of army-worms in the country. The money would be used to purchase agro chemicals (pesticides) to combat the army-worms and save the country from food security threat. The chemicals would be … Read more
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto has announced the allocation of 16 million cedis by the ministry to eradicate the infestation of army worm in some farms. The minister revealed this when he inaugurated a multi-sectorial task force that has membership from the private sector and development partners to control and manage … Read more
More than 24,000 people fled their homes as the Philippine military used airstrikes and artillery against Muslim extremists who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, authorities said Thursday. Almost a week of attacks on members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in the strife-torn southern island of Mindanao has displaced residents of six … Read more
Iraqi forces have launched a broad operation to root out fighters from the Islamic State group who have been harassing security forces in remote border areas, officers said Thursday. The army, backed by aircraft from the US-led coalition and local tribal fighters, launched their sweep at dawn in desert areas of Anbar province where the … Read more
The peace deal with the FARC was the fruit of four years of negotiations in Cuba [File: John Vizcaino/Reuters] Colombia’s congress has approved a law that ratifies provisions of a peace agreement that permits the country’s largest leftist guerrilla group FARC to participate in politics. The senate voted 52-2 on Wednesday in favour of the … Read more
An Australian soldier has died during a training exercise in the Northern Territory. The man was taking part in a “routine” activity at the time, the Department of Defence said. It did not give details of the incident. The army has suspended all training exercises involving combat brigades while it reviews safety procedures, officials said. … Read more
Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh’s Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government. “We have no choice but dialogue,” Saleh said at a meeting of his General People’s Congress party in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. “We are ready to … Read more
German police have arrested a second soldier over a far-right plot to assassinate politicians and blame it on migrants. The suspect, identified only as Maximilian T., 27, was stationed at the same Franco-German base near Strasbourg as army lieutenant Franco Albrecht, who was arrested on April 26. Albrecht, 28, had managed to create the false … Read more
The gunmen forced the hostages into a boat and took them deep into the jungle The Colombian government has accused the country’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), of kidnapping eight people in an isolated region. The gunmen forced the hostages into a boat and took them deep into the jungle in the … Read more
Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s, as an armed insurgency against Indian rule reached its bloody peak. Sajad’s debut graphic novel “Munnu” is his account of growing up in the Kashmir Valley, one of the most spectacular but also most … Read more