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44 people were slain in two assaults by unidentified attackers overnight on Thursday in northern Burkina Faso, according to officials. The assaults took place in the villages of Kourakou and Tondobi in the Sahel region of the nation in West Africa, which is controlled by jihadist organisations with ties to al Qaeda and the Islamic State who have been conducting strikes there for years. Which gang committed the assaults on Thursday is unknown. Authorities cited “armed terrorist groups” as the cause on Saturday. In Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest nations, more than 2 million people have been displaced,…

A humanitarian organisation reported on Saturday that more than 30 children were reunited with their families in Ukraine this week following a protracted effort to bring them back from Russia, where they had been transferred from seized regions during the conflict. According to Kyiv, approximately 19,500 children have been sent to Russia since Moscow invaded in February last year, in what it calls unlawful deportations. Moscow, which controls parts of Ukraine’s east and south, denies kidnapping youngsters and claims they were taken away for their own protection. “The sixth rescue operation is almost finished. It was unique in terms of…

Lejeune Mbella, the foreign minister of Cameroon, said on Friday that starting on April 30, all applications for entrance visas to Cameroon must be submitted online. The minister said that applications will be processed “exclusively” online using the website www.evisacam.cm, after which the applicant would be given an online authorisation for a visa. Mbella said in a statement earlier on Thursday night that the applicant may next proceed to either a diplomatic mission or a border checkpoint to actually get the visa. For applicants who live in remote locations or who are not serviced by diplomatic missions, Mbella said that…

The Sulaymaniyah airport in northern Iraq was allegedly attacked, and the Iraqi government demanded that Turkey apologise and end hostilities on Iraqi land on Saturday. Turkey has no legal authority to continue “intimidating civilians under the pretext that hostile forces are present on Iraqi soil,” according to a statement from the Iraqi president. In this respect, we urge the Turkish government to accept responsibility and issue a formal apology, the statement said. A drone strike on Friday near Sulaymaniyah airport, according to Lawk Ghafuri, director of international media relations for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), did not result in any…

Iranian authorities are putting cameras in public locations and thoroughfares to identify and prosecute exposed women, the police stated on Saturday, in an effort to rein in the growing number of women who flout the mandatory clothing code. Violators will get “warning text messages as to the consequences” after being identified, police said in a statement. The measure is intended to “prevent resistance to the hijab law,” according to the statement, which was broadcast by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency and other official media, adding that such defiance tarnishes the country’s spiritual image and fosters instability. Since the murder of…

Nigeria’s Super Eagles should be by far Africa’s most powerful football force. However, even the weakest clubs in Africa increasingly find the inconsistent team an easy opponent to face, especially on home territory in Nigeria. Ordinary Guinea Bissau achieved the unimaginable and defeated the Super Eagles on their own turf. Playing in Nigeria has become a nightmare for both Nigerian football fans and European players. For whatever reason, the majority of these foreign superstars consistently underperform. The home field has increasingly become a neutral venue for the majority of their matches, leaving fans and players dissatisfied and disillusioned. Before matches,…

Sunday Adepoju, the Postmaster-General of the Federation and CEO of the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) has advised Nigerians to maintain hope in the variety of goods and services provided by NIPOST. During the 34th Enugu International Trade Fair, which was held in Enugu and was organized by the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (ECCIMA), Adepoju made the call. According to him, NIPOST now offers a rapid, secure, and effective mail delivery service that can be tracked. He, therefore, asked Nigerians to use the upgraded and repositioned goods and services since they are more reasonably priced and better…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged authorities to employ all available methods to free abducted university and secondary school students. According to media reports, two female Microbiology students from Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara, and ten female secondary school students from Kachia LGA in Kaduna State were held captive. Mr Vanessa Kwere, NANS Zone A’s Deputy Coordinator, Inter-Campus Affairs, delivered the plea in a statement to the media on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi. Kwere made the comment immediately after a NANS team met with university administration after the union’s recent Zonal Convention in Jigawa. He said that the…

German Galushchenko, Ukraine’s energy minister, said on Friday that the country would begin exporting electricity to Europe after a six-month hiatus brought on by damaging Russian missile assaults on the nation’s infrastructure. In a statement, Galushchenko claimed that repairs had been successful since “the Ukrainian power grid had been functioning for almost two months without any restrictions on consumption and with a power reserve.” He said that selling the extra electricity will help raise money for the restoration of the damaged and destroyed energy infrastructure. It had been decided to export up to 400 megawatts to the electrical grid in…

Nigerians have been reminded by the Federal Road Safety Corps to drive safely while celebrating Easter. This was stated by the FRSC Corps Marshal Dauda Biu in a statement dated Saturday in Abuja and signed by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem. Biu wished all Christians a happy Easter and urged thoughtful consideration of the importance of practicing love, especially on the road. “I wish to seize the opportunity of the Easter celebration to call for deep reflection by people on the need for attitudinal change towards road safety and collective campaign against the menace of road traffic crashes…