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Hoodlums attack Niger NSCDC official aboard tricycle
Punch
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October 28, 2024
No fewer than a dozen hoodlums attacked the spokesman of the Niger State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ibrahim Muti, while he was returning from his office. Arewa PUNCH gathered that Muti, who suffered severe knife...
Schengen Travel Insurance: Your Guide to Choosing a Visa-Approved Policy
Schengen Visa Info
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October 26, 2024
Despite recent changes in Schengen visa fees, applicants must remember that travel insurance is still a mandatory requirement when applying for a Schengen visa. According to Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament, Schengen travel...
France’s Secret War in Cameroon Is Still Choking Its People
Jacobin
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This is an extract from The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa, now available from Verso Books. During the 1950s and ’60s, France waged a brutal colonial war in Cameroon while managing to keep it largely shielded from...
Hoodlums Attack NSCDC Spokesman In Niger State
Naija News
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October 28, 2024
Reports obtained by Naija News revealed that the hoodlums assaulted the security officer while he was travelling in a tricycle in the Gbeganu area of Minna, the state capital. According to the information gathered, the incident occurred around 8...
Danger ahead: All of the countries on DFAT’s ‘Do Not Travel’ list
KARRYON
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September 24, 2024
The highest level of advice the Australian Government issues to Aussie travellers is level four, or a “Do Not Travel” warning. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) Smartraveller website, these regions are classified as...
Largest piece of Mars on earth fetches millions
The Warnambool Standard
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July 17, 2025
The 25kg rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and travelling 225 million kilometres to earth,...
Foreign Office travel warnings in place for 18 countries including winter sun destinations
Chronicle Live
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October 27, 2024
Those hoping to jet off abroad for some sun on an out-of-season break are warned to take heed of new travel advice from the Foreign Office. The Government department has updated its advice for British travellers for 18 countries following Israel's...
Hoodlums stab NSCDC spokesman in Niger
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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October 27, 2024
Suspected hoodlums have attacked the spokesman of the Niger State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), DSC Ibrahim Rabiu Muti, while returning from work on Friday, October 25, 2024. It was learnt that Ibrahim Rabiu was...
The Trail Less Traveled: Farewell, Burkina Faso
Dalton Daily Citizen - Georgia
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You’ve probably never heard of Burkina Faso. I hadn’t either until recently when I started seeing posts about it on Facebook from Thomas McIntyre, a hunting and outdoor writer many of you know. McIntyre has hunted all over the world, visited every...
Africa File, October 24, 2024: JNIM Strikes Northern Niger; DRC Peace Talks and M23 Offensive; Egypt-Djibouti Cooperation; Ethiopia-Somalia AUSSOM Tug-of-War; Central Somalia Offensive
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Contributors: Halkano Boru and Margaret Herr Data Cutoff: October 24, 2024, at 10 a.m. To receive the Africa File via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The Africa File provides regular analysis and...
European tourist has throat slit as 'killer shouts Allah Akbar' in horrifying attack
Daily Express
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October 24, 2024
A Swiss tourist was murdered in a gruesome attack at a cafe in Djanet, south-east Algeria, near the border with Libya and Niger, it has been reported. The sickening attack reportedly saw a man slit the throat of a woman as she sat on a cafe...
Former Niger Republic Prime Minister, Hama Amadou Passes Away At 74
Naija News
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October 24, 2024
According to the local newspaper L’Enquêteur, Amadou succumbed to malaria overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. His passing has sparked a wave of tributes across social media, highlighting his significant contributions to Niger’s political sphere....
Snakebites Claim Lives In Niger State’s Farming Communities As Peasant Farmers Lament N200,000 Cost Per Injection
Sahara Reporters
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Speaking on behalf of the affected farmers, Ndagi Zakari, the local representative in the State House of Assembly, expressed deep concern during a recent plenary session and stated that the alarming rate of deaths resulting from these incidents....
Malian refugees in Niger: new homes allow a fresh start
GIZ
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October 17, 2024
Agali Amina stands in front of her new house with a sense of relief. Now 40 years old, she left Mali in 2016 to escape the violence there and fled to neighbouring Niger, where she and her six children spent almost five years living in Mangaise...
Egypt, Niger discuss cooperation in health sector
Daily News Egypt
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October 23, 2024
Egypt’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, received his counterpart, Garba Hakimi, Minister of Health of Niger, as part of enhancing cooperation in various health care fields. The meeting was held...
AFRICA/NIGER - Another world is possible when invisible chains are recognized as such
Fides
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October 22, 2024
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 by Mauro Armanino Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Pierluigi Maccalli, who was held hostage for more than two years by Salafist-inspired groups, has returned to Niger, the place of his kidnapping, to spend a few days (see Fides,...
Human Smuggling in Libya and Niger
Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
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October 15, 2024
Niger’s location at the crossroads of key trans-Sahelian routes has positioned it at the heart of migratory flows for decades. The country’s role as a transit hub for migrants heading north towards Libya with the aim of reaching Europe has also...
Bandits kill three in Niger, abduct Zamfara RMAFC coordinator, others
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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October 22, 2024
Bandits have killed three persons along Bangi, and Kotonkoro communities in Mariga Local Council of Niger State. The incident, which occurred on Sunday morning at about 9am, followed a blockade of a major highway in the area by the armed men, who...
Bandits Kill Three, Abduct Two Rice Farmers in Niger State Road Attack
Channels TV
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October 22, 2024
Three persons were killed and two rice farmers were abducted in a bandit attack on Sunday in the Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State. The attack took place around 9:00am between Bangi and Kotonkoro. The assailants believed to be bandits,...
Police arrest suspected thugs in Niger hotel ahead of operation
Punch
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October 21, 2024
The Niger State Police Command has arrested suspected thugs lodging in a hotel ahead of an undisclosed operation. The suspects numbering 16 were caught with dangerous weapons and suspected hard drugs that included cannabis, shisha apparatus, and...