The UN Security Council under India’s current presidency is holding an emergency meeting on the situation in Afghanistan on Monday. The council is meeting for the second time in over a week to discuss events in that country. The longstanding war in Afghanistan reached a watershed moment on Sunday when the Taliban retook the capital […]
The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001, The Conversation has reported. In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah […]
The Nigerian Government remains silent as countries like the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden, Spain and Canada make frantic efforts to evacuate their citizens from crisis-torn Afghanistan. Replying to FIJ’s enquiry over the government’s plan for Nigerian citizens resident in the country, Abike Dabiri, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, said Geoffrey Onyeama, […]
US soldiers killed two armed men at Kabul’s airport Monday after a top Pentagon general met with the Taliban in Doha to urge them not to attack as thousands sought to flee Afghanistan, a defense official said. “In the thousands of people who were there peacefully, two guys who had weapons brandished them menacingly. They […]
An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country’s defence ministry said on Monday, confirming earlier reports. “The military plane illegally crossed the border of Uzbekistan. An investigation is under way,” ministry spokesman Bakhrom Zulfikarov told AFP, confirming Uzbek media reports of a crash taking place late Sunday in Uzbekistan’s southern province […]
Five people were killed in chaos at Kabul airport on Monday as U.S. troops guarded the evacuation of embassy staff. This came a day after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital and declared that the war was over and peace had prevailed. Witnesses said it was not immediately clear how the victims died. A U.S. […]
Frantic Afghans trying to flee the Taliban takeover clung to an American plane as it prepared to take off from Kabul airport, as thousands of people desperately searched for a flight out of the country on Monday. US troops fired shots into the air and all commercial flights were cancelled as chaos broke out on […]
President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan says he fled the country to avoid bloodshed, as Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in the capital city of Kabul. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Ghani said he believed “countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be destroyed”, if he had stayed behind. “Today, […]
Hakainde Hichilema, Zambia’s veteran opposition politician and a business tycoon, tried six times for the country’s presidency before finally landing the top job on Monday. With more than 2.8 million votes, he secured a landslide against his long-time rival President Edgar Lungu, who garnered just over 1.8 million of the ballots cast on August 12. […]
South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma, who early this month was moved from prison to a health facility, has undergone surgery and will stay in hospital for further procedures, the government said Sunday. “Mr Zuma underwent a surgical procedure on Saturday, 14 August 2021, with other procedures scheduled for the coming days,” the correctional services […]
