The United States is pulling around 700 counter-terrorism troops from their current 7,200 troops from dozens of African countries. This decision comes straight from the department of defense. The overall plan from the Pentagon is to shift away focus and sharing of intelligence from Western African countries to deal with threats in China and Russia. An anonymous US official stated… Read more »
Kenyan roads are among the most dangerous in the world with 3,000 people dying in accidents each year, according to World Health Organisation At least 50 people were killed when their bus left the road, rolled down a slope, crashed and had its roof ripped off in western Kenya. Around 15 survivors from the bus that was headed from the capital, Nairobi, to the… Read more »
Police in Ghana have arrested five women suspected of operating a human-trafficking ring. They allegedly took young women from Nigeria to Ghana, promising them lucrative jobs. They told the parents of the trafficked women that they operated businesses in Ghana and needed people to work in sales, police said. But when the women arrived in Ghana they were forced into… Read more »
The US is cutting hundreds of troops in Africa as it focuses on countering threats from Russia and China. Around 700 counter-terrorism troops will be removed over the next few years, the Department of Defense said. About 7,200 US soldiers are currently based in dozens of African countries including Nigeria and Libya. There will now be a shift away from… Read more »
Campaigners say children from vulnerable families are being trafficked into institutions to satisfy demands of tourism ampaigners trying to fight the exploitation of children in Kenyan orphanages say they are being undermined by a “white saviour” complex among churches and other charitable groups. The use of orphanages as “tourist attractions” in places like Mombasa is unethical and fuelling trafficking, child… Read more »
Part of Theresa May’s wider security pact with African nations is that the UK will establish cyber centers focusing on countering peopdofiles from overseas. The prime minister stated: “Online child exploitation is an abhorrent crime and we are determined to ensure there is no place to hide for predators who use the internet to share images of abuse across borders, too… Read more »
As Nigeria’s army continues its offensive against Boko Haram extremists, our reporters Catherine Norris-Trent and Jonathan Walsh travelled to the northeast of the country, still plagued by violence. For this special 26-minute documentary, they bring us rare eyewitness accounts from victims of the jihadist group, but also those who persecuted them. Security forces and ordinary citizens also speak out about… Read more »
It’s been one year since Anglophone separatists declared an independent republic in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. That led to clashes between the separatists and Cameroonian soldiers. The UN estimates the fighting has caused the displacement of more than 160,000 people inside the country, with an estimated 40,000 who have fled to neighbouring Nigeria. Our correspondents report from Nigeria,… Read more »
The Ghanaian government has dissolved the governing council of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Knust) following violent protests on Monday. A seven-member interim committee has been appointed to manage the affairs of the university and directed to re-open the university within 14 days for academic work to resume. The trouble started at Knust, which is in Ghana’s second… Read more »
The UK government will build a new “cyber centre” to help stop British paedophiles abusing vulnerable children in Kenya. The centre will be the first of its kind in Africa amid a rising number of abuse cases faced by Kenyan authorities. In the past two years two British men have been sentenced to long prison sentences after travelling to the African country to sexually… Read more »