Now World View8 hours agoShareSaveThomas NaadiBBC NewsShareSaveFile photo of Nigerian soldiersA notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader.
The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with authorities reporting that several other criminal hideouts were also destroyed across the state on Friday.
His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.
The police had said that it deployed security forces in pursuit of the kidnappers.
However, this is not the first time Dankarami's death has been reported.
In 2022, the Nigerian Airforce claimed to have killed him in a similar operation.
The Katsina State commissioner for..
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7 hours agoShareSaveThomas NaadiBBC NewsShareSaveFile photo of Nigerian soldiersA notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader.
The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with authorities reporting that several other criminal hideouts were also destroyed across the state on Friday.
His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.
The police had said that it deployed security forces in pursuit of the kidnappers.
However, this is not the first time Dankarami's death has been reported.
In 2022, the Nigerian Airforce claimed to have killed him in a similar operation.
The Katsina State commissioner for.. -
6 hours agoShareSaveThomas NaadiBBC NewsShareSaveFile photo of Nigerian soldiersA notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader.
The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with authorities reporting that several other criminal hideouts were also destroyed across the state on Friday.
His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.
The police had said that it deployed security forces in pursuit of the kidnappers.
However, this is not the first time Dankarami's death has been reported.
In 2022, the Nigerian Airforce claimed to have killed him in a similar operation.
The Katsina State commissioner for.. -
5 hours agoShareSaveThomas NaadiBBC NewsShareSaveFile photo of Nigerian soldiersA notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader.
The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with authorities reporting that several other criminal hideouts were also destroyed across the state on Friday.
His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.
The police had said that it deployed security forces in pursuit of the kidnappers.
However, this is not the first time Dankarami's death has been reported.
In 2022, the Nigerian Airforce claimed to have killed him in a similar operation.
The Katsina State commissioner for.. -
5 hours agoShareSaveThomas NaadiBBC NewsShareSaveFile photo of Nigerian soldiersA notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say.
Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader.
The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with authorities reporting that several other criminal hideouts were also destroyed across the state on Friday.
His apparent death comes after bandits kidnapped 43 villagers and killed four others in a deadly attack on a village called Maigora in the northern Katsina State earlier this week.
The police had said that it deployed security forces in pursuit of the kidnappers.
However, this is not the first time Dankarami's death has been reported.
In 2022, the Nigerian Airforce claimed to have killed him in a similar operation.
The Katsina State commissioner for.. -
Desperate residents have been fleeing floodwaters by wading or paddling to safety in homemade canoes.
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2 hours agoShareSaveJames GregoryBBC NewsShareSaveVirunga in eastern DR Congo is home to a third of the world's remaining mountain gorillas and more than 1,000 hipposAt least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its director has said.
Photos shared by the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo show the motionless animals floating along the Ishasha River. Park officials say they first started appearing last week.
The exact cause of the poisoning is unknown but tests have confirmed the presence of anthrax.
Park director Emmanuel de Merode said work was under way to recover the animals and bury them to prevent further spread, but it was difficult because there were no excavators.
“It's difficult due to lack of access and logistics,” he told Reuters news agency.
“We have the means to limit the spread by… burying them with caustic soda.”
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Nicolas Jackson, nicknamed Neymar by his young contemporaries back in Senegal, is looking to fire Chelsea to European glory this season.
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2 hours agoShareSaveMansur AbubakarBBC NewsShareSaveAmuscap is among several Nigerians arrested over abusing the country's currencyA make-up artist in Nigeria has been sentenced to six months in jail for abusing the currency, the naira, by flinging it while dancing at his wedding celebration last December.
Abdullahi Musa Huseini, popularly known as “Amuscap” on social media, was sentenced by a high court in the northern city of Kano minutes after pleading guilty to the charge.
Flinging or “spraying” of banknotes, as it is called in Nigeria, is often done at weddings and other celebrations to show a person's wealth and as an expression of joy.
But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been waging a campaign against it, saying it shows disrespect for the naira – one of the country's most important symbols.
Amuscap is the latest Nigerian to be imprisoned for violating the 2007 Central Bank of Nigeria Act.
It states that the “spraying of, dancing or [march.. -
4 hours agoShareSaveAkisa Wandera & Wycliffe MuiaBBC News, Juba and NairobiShareSavePresident Salva Kiir's government had earlier said the deported man was from the Democratic Republic of CongoSouth Sudan has said it will now allow the entry of a man deported from the US, in a dramatic climb down aimed at defusing a visa row between the two countries.
On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the US would be revoking US visas for all South Sudanese. He said it was a response to South Sudan’s refusal to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the US.
In its initial reaction, South Sudan's foreign ministry said the move was based on a case involving someone who had been incorrectly identified as South Sudanese and was sent back as a result.
The government now says it will allow the man to enter the country “in the spirit of the friendly relations”.
It adds that the deported man, identified as being from the Democratic Republic of Congo, could..
