By AFP 21 November 2023 | 4:40 pm Fifteen people, mostly civilians, were killed in “simultaneous attacks” over the weekend in eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Tuesday. The West African country is battling a jihadist insurgency that spilled over from neighbouring Mali in 2015 and has left more than 17,000 civilians and soldiers dead, and displaced two million… Fifteen people, mostly civilians, were killed in “simultaneous attacks” over the weekend in eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Tuesday. The West African country is battling a jihadist insurgency that spilled over from neighbouring Mali in 2015 and has left more than 17,000 civilians and soldiers dead, and displaced two million people. In the latest violence, 15 people, including three army auxiliaries, were killed on Saturday in “simultaneous and synchronised attacks” in Diapaga, the main town of the eastern Tapoa province, a local resident told AFP. Kondia Pierre Yonli, a spokesman for a regional civil society organisation, confirmed the information, adding that schools, markets and public services were suspended in the region on Tuesday in honour of the victims, who were buried on Sunday in the Diapaga municipal cemetery. A security source said the military was carrying out retaliatory strikes. “An air-ground operation is ongoing in the east that has already allowed the neutralisation of more than 50 terrorists and the dismantling of several of their bases,” the source said. Burkina Faso is ruled by a transitional government put in place after a September 2022 coup. The junta-led government has been conscripting men over 18 for its anti-jihadist fight. 1 hour ago Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Chris Musa, Tuesday, disclosed that every military man including himself is fed N1,500 per day. 1 hour ago The National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), on Tuesday, backed the Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, called for a merger of opposition parties against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). 1 hour ago Newly deployed Commissioner of Police in Imo State, CP Aboki Danjuma has reiterated the commitment of the command under his leadership to provide adequate security and restore stability in the state. 1 hour ago Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) on Monday, 20 November, 2023, sealed a mosque, a company, and hotels in the Oshodi/Isolo area of the state due to noise pollution. 2 hours ago Justice Phoebe Ayuba of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, has ordered the parties in the Rivers parliament rift to maintain status quo pending the hearing of the Motion on Notice filed together with the main suit by the new Speaker of the House of Assembly and the House of Assembly. Ruling on the motion… 2 hours ago A civil society group, Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HILL), has called for partnerships to ensure affordable and accessible justice systems for everyone. Mr Sam Muller, the Chief Executive Officer of the group made this comment on Thursday during the presentation of the 2023 report of the justice needs and satisfaction in Nigeria. Muller… 2 hours ago Fifteen people, mostly civilians, were killed in “simultaneous attacks” over the weekend in eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Tuesday. The West African country is battling a jihadist insurgency that spilled over from neighbouring Mali in 2015 and has left more than 17,000 civilians and soldiers dead, and displaced two million… 2 hours ago The British government’s year-to-date borrowing undershot forecasts despite a jump in October, official data showed on Tuesday, boosting Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt on the eve of a key budget update. Public sector net borrowing reached £98.3 billion ($123.2 billion) in the seven months to October, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement.… 2 hours ago Two civilians died in Russia’s latest overnight barrage of drones and missiles, which hit a hospital, a building at a mine and other civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, Kyiv said on Tuesday. Ukraine has been bracing for an increase in Russian attacks on critical infrastructure — particularly energy facilities — as sub-zero temperatures set in. In… 3 hours ago Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Tuesday accused France of inciting a fresh war in the Caucasus by arming Baku’s arch foe Armenia, with which it had fought two wars. [AD] Baku and Yerevan have been locked in a decades-long territorial conflict over Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Baku reclaimed in September after a lightning offensive against…
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