Nigeria slams US refusal to sell it arms
Nigeria’s slammed the United States for refusing to sell it the weapons needed to defeat Boko Haram militants. Washington’s banned arms sales to Nigeria because of alleged human rights violations in the crackdown on Islamist extremists. Nigeria’s ambassador to Washington Adebowale Adefuye says allegations of human rights violations by his country’s military are exaggerated, rumours […]
Mali clinic goes into lockdown after Ebola deaths
A clinic in Mali’s gone into lockdown as a doctor treating a second Ebola outbreak in that country is suspected of having contracted the deadly virus. Half of the 30 people quarantined are African UN soldiers being treated for injuries and tuberculosis. An official at the Pasteur clinic in the Malian capital Bamako says the […]