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Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s Bold Move: Clearing Burkina Faso’s Debt and Reclaiming Natural Resources

In a landmark shift towards economic sovereignty, Burkina Faso, under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has achieved two monumental feats: the complete repayment of its $4.7 billion external debt and the nationalization of its gold mining industry. These actions mark a decisive break from neocolonial influences and aim to ensure that the nation's wealth directly benefits its citizens. Clearing the Debt: A Financial Milestone The Ministry of Finance announced that Burkina Faso has fully settled its external debt, a burden that has constrained the nation's development for decades. President Traoré attributed this achievement to strategic fiscal policies, increased revenues from resource exports, and renegotiated trade agreements with international creditors. This financial liberation paves the way for increased investment in critical sectors such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure.​ Nationalizing the Gold Mining Industry Gold mining, a significant contributor to Burkina […]

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Trump Has a Lot to Offer, Even Without a Ukraine Deal

President Trump says he is focused on stopping the “death march” in Ukraine “as soon as possible.” But for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, cease-fire talks with Mr. Trump are a means to much broader ends. Russian and American officials met in Saudi Arabia on Monday to deepen their negotiations about technical details of a partial cease-fire to halt attacks on energy facilities and on ships in the Black Sea. While Ukraine says it’s ready for a full truce, Mr. Putin has made it clear that he will seek a wide range of concessions first. The upshot: The Kremlin appears determined to squeeze as many benefits as possible from Mr. Trump’s desire for a Ukraine peace deal, even as it slow-walks the negotiations. Viewed from Moscow, better ties with Washington are an economic and geopolitical boon — one that may be […]

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Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks

The Trump administration sent a flight carrying deportees from the United States to Venezuela on Sunday, the first such flight since the Venezuelan government reached an agreement with the Trump administration on Saturday to resume accepting them. Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, invited journalists to an airport near Caracas, the capital, on Sunday at 8 p.m. for the arrival of the flight, which the government said was part of what it is calling the Return to the Homeland. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs, confirmed that a deportation flight to Venezuela had landed and that it was carrying 199 people. The Trump administration has made it a priority to get the Venezuelan government to agree to accept flights carrying people deported from the United States. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have entered the country […]

Tanker and cargo vessel collide off UK coast, coastguard says

Britain’s coastguard has launched an emergency response after a collision between an oil tanker and cargo vessel in the North Sea, off England’s northeastern coast. The UK coastguard said it has sent a helicopter and lifeboats from nearby towns, as well as “vessels with fire-fighting capability,” to respond to the incident. “A coastguard rescue helicopter from Humberside was called, alongside lifeboats from Skegness, Bridlington, Maplethorpe [sic] and Cleethorpes, an HM Coastguard fixed-wing aircraft, and nearby vessels with firefighting capability,” it said. The incident is believed to involve a US-flagged tanker called the Stena Immaculate, which was at anchor off the coast near the city of Hull, and a container ship called the Solong -which is sailing under the flag of Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal - according to the ship tracking tool VesselFinder. A flurry of high-speed ships and […]

4 Drug Kingpins Bag 95 Years In Jail, Forfeit Vehicles, Others

Four drug kingpins: Ogbuji Christian Ifeanyi; Iloduba Augustine Chinonye; Shuaibu Nuhu Isa (a.k.a Don) and Zidon Zurga, have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 95 years in prison by the Federal High Court in Lagos and Yola, Adamawa State over trafficking of cocaine and skunk worth over N4.6 billion. Ogbuji was intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, during an inward clearance of Ethiopian Airlines flight passengers from Addis Ababa to Lagos, for importing 817 wraps of cocaine weighing 19.40 kilograms with an estimated street value of Four Billion Six Hundred and Fifty-Six Million Naira (N4,656,000,000.00). That was barely 16 months after the 48-year-old businessman was arrested and convicted for ingesting 93 pellets of cocaine. He was first arrested at […]

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Affter 17 Years On The Run, NDLEA Apprehends Wanted Notorious Drug Baron In Lagos

After 17 years of hiding in the dark to ship illicit drugs worth billions of naira across the world, the reign of a wanted 59-year-old drug baron, Ogbonnaya Kevin Jeff, has been brought to a halt following his arrest by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at his hideout in Ojo area of Lagos. Chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, detailed how operatives of the agency’s Special Operations Unit had been on the trail of Ogbonnaya following an Interpol red notice against him and information from the National Intelligence Service of South Korea. According to Marwa: “The major development that warranted this special briefing pertains to the arrest of a drug lord who’s wanted across the world as the leader of […]

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Soldiers Invade Ikeja Electric Office Over Power Disconnection

Personnel of the Nigerian military have invaded the offices of Ikeja Electric in Lagos State, assaulting staff members and disrupting operations. The incident, which took place at the electricity distribution company’s office on Ago Palace Way, Okota, Isolo, , showing uniformed military personnel wielding arms and forcing employees to kneel while assaulting others. Sources further confirmed that a similar invasion occurred at Ikeja Electric’s head office in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital. The invasion came amid growing tensions between Ikeja Electric and the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) over the disconnection of power supply to the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base in Ikeja. A national newspaper on Wednesday reported that the base had been without electricity for two weeks after Ikeja Electric cut off supply due to unpaid debts amounting to millions of naira. Sources told that an agreement had been […]

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