Hundreds of workers of some textile manufacturing companies in the country have hit the streets of Accra to demonstrate over government’s failure to put measures in place to clamp down on pirated textiles on the market. The demonstrators held placards with inscriptions such as “taskforce is not a border guard”, “restore the taskforce to the … Read more
Mexican authorities have launched criminal proceedings against four police officers over the disappearance of three Italian men. The missing men – all from Naples – were last seen on 31 January in Tecalitlán, in the western state of Jalisco. The state’s governor said the officers had confessed to handing the Italians over to a local … Read more
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has sacked its embattled General Manager of the Management Information System, Dr. Caleb Afaglo. The decision to fire the IT boss was taken at an emergency Board and Management meeting on August 30, 2017 at the Pension House in Accra. Dr. Afaglo until his dismissal was on … Read more
The Member of Parliament for Mion Constituency in the Northern Region has charged the government to adequately resource the security services in the country to ward off any possible terrorism. This, Abdul-Aziz Mohammed said, should take precedence over government’s “vindictive posture” on the former government appointees. “Instead of political vendetta and investigating people unnecessarily, we … Read more
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday released the first edition of a magazine for women, apparently aiming to convince its target readership to join the militant group and take up jihad. The first edition of “Sunnat E Khaula” — which translates as ‘The Way of Khaula’, referring to an early female follower of the Prophet Muhammad … Read more
The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the sound of gunfire shook the Afghan capital in a continuing assault. A security source told AFP that a suicide bomber had blown himself up outside the Iraqi embassy. “Civilians are being evacuated” from the … Read more
Afghan security forces are battling gunmen following a suicide attack outside the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul. Four attackers targeted the complex in the central Shar-e-Naw neighbourhood, the Afghan interior ministry said. A bomber blew himself up at the gate of the embassy, and three others entered the compound. No information has been provided … Read more
The ultra-violent Latino street gang MS-13, which President Trump vowed to wipe out in a speech in suburban New York on Friday, is estimated to have some 10,000 members in the United States. And it boasts a very unusual criminal philosophy. Here are a few key points on MS-13: Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, works as … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday will visit a New York suburb traumatized by the violent street gang MS-13, which he has pledged to wipe out, but many in the Long Island community of Brentwood are wary of his motives. The gang, which is largely Salvadoran, has killed 17 people here over the past year and … Read more
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province, the defence ministry said Wednesday, the latest blow to struggling security forces. The militants “attacked an army camp in Karzali area of Khakrez district of Kandahar last night,” MoD spokesman General Dawlat Waziri … Read more
At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last year, a media watchdog said Tuesday, with rampant violence on the rise in the war-torn country. Taliban militants and the Islamic State group were behind most of the “direct and indirect” attacks on media workers … Read more
US authorities on Monday charged the driver of the overheated truck found in Texas packed with migrants with one count of transporting “illegal” immigrants, prosecutors said, as the death toll rose to 10. The tenth migrant, an adult man, died at the hospital overnight, according to the US Attorney’s office, which charged James Mathew Bradley … Read more
At least 35 people were killed when the Taliban attacked a hospital in central Ghor province over the weekend, a presidential spokesman said Monday. “When the Taliban entered the hospital they killed 35, all civilians,” spokesman Shah Hussain Murtazawi said, without specifying if they were patients or staff. “This is a cruel crime against humanity.” … Read more
At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul Monday, an official told AFP, the latest attack to strike the Afghan capital. “The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush hour,” interior ministry spokesman … Read more
Eight suspected migrants were found dead early Sunday inside an overheated truck in a Walmart parking lot in Texas, and nearly 30 others were hospitalized, in what police said appeared to be a “horrific” human trafficking crime. Twenty of those taken to area hospitals after the discovery in San Antonio — about a two hour … Read more
The US State Department said Wednesday that global terror incidents and deaths fell last year, while it maintained its designation of Iran as the top “state sponsor of terrorism.” In its annual country-by-country assessment of terrorism worldwide, the department pinpointed Islamic jihadist groups Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban as the leading culprits for terror … Read more
Australia has created a super ministry combining its security agencies including the domestic spy service, border force and national police, the country’s prime minister said on Tuesday, calling the “historic change” necessary to tackle terrorism. The new Home Affairs portfolio — which uses Britain’s Home Office as a template — will be run by Immigration … Read more
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, has organized a two weeks basic drugs workshop for law enforcement agencies in the Eastern Region. The workshop targeted at building the capacity of law enforcement agencies to counter drug trafficking and organized crime in Ghana, is under the “Technical Assistance Project to Ghanaian authorities to counter … Read more
One of four men arrested for sending thousands of dollars to the late Al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki pleaded guilty Monday to supporting terrorists and plotting to kill the US judge in the case. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, is one of two India-born brothers who came to the United States to study engineering in Ohio but … Read more
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by groups such as the Taliban and Islamic State, officials said Monday, amid concerns it could limit free speech. The Cyber Crime Law criminalises a range of online activities including hacking, spreading ethnic hatred, distribution of online defamatory speech, … Read more