Leonard, an envoy of the US has assured Nigeria that she won’t share Afghanistan’s fate and tragic end. EkohotBlog reports that the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, reiterated the assurance during a meeting with journalists in Abuja. The ambassador expressed that Nigeria and Afghanistan’s situations lack similarity and connection. Many Nigerians had sounded … Read more
The hasty withdrawal ended 20 years of America’s war in Afghanistan. On Tuesday morning, August 31, the US finished its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan, the first time in 20 years that the country will be without foreign forces. As the last US soldier departed on a Boeing C-17 Globemaster before dawn on Tuesday, … Read more
Mujahid then congratulated a group of fighters beside him, telling them he hoped Taliban combatants would now “treat the people nicely.” Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, has hailed the people of Afghanistan following the complete withdrawal of US forces from the country. The Pentagon said the last US military planes have left Afghanistan, marking the … Read more
Tens of thousands of people have been flown out of the country since August 13, two days before the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital. The Federal Government has said that there is no Nigerian in Afghanistan that needs to be evacuated, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban group. According … Read more
Sadat became a minister in Ashraf Ghani’s cabinet in 2018 but he left in 2020 owing to disagreements with him. He then fled Afghanistan and relocated to Germany. An Afghanistan former Minister, Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, who served under the recently deposed Ashraf Ghani’s cabinet, has been seen working as a pizza delivery person in … Read more
Instead, thousands of soldiers have poured back in to manage the frantic airlifting of foreigners and Afghans — many who fear reprisals for working with Western nations — out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban on Monday warned that there would be dire “consequences” if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops … Read more
Britain’s Sky News had on Saturday aired footage of at least three dead bodies covered in white tarpaulins outside the airport Britain said on Sunday that seven Afghans have died in the chaos near Kabul airport as the British defence secretary expressed support for extending Washington’s end-of-the-month deadline to permit the evacuation of so many … Read more
The report says the militants are “rapidly recruiting” new informers to collaborate with the Taliban regime and are expanding their lists of targets The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with US and NATO forces, a confidential United Nations document says, despite the militants vowing no revenge against opponents. The report — … Read more
He said that as he was speaking, troops were loading 120 families on to a plane to depart, with another 138 set to leave a few hours later. Touching photos of desperate Afghanistan mothers throwing their babies over barbed wire fences at the Kabul airport and begging British paratroopers to take them to safety have surfaced … Read more
Ghani has been badly criticised by former ministers for leaving the country suddenly as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday. Ashraf Ghani the former President of Afghanistan has finally spoken days after leaving his country to flee from the Taliban militants. Recall that Ghani ran for his life as Taliban forces entered Kabul … Read more
Twitter said in a statement that it will “continue to proactively enforce our rules and review content that may violate Twitter rules, specifically policies against glorification of violence, platform manipulation and spam.” The microblogging platform, Twitter, has refused to join other social media in banning Taliban from using its platform, saying it will monitor content … Read more
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organization for several militant groups, confirmed its former deputy Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, known for his close ties with al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, was also freed by the Taliban. Report has emerged that several hundred militants from groups like Islamic State (ISIS), and the Pakistani Taliban has been freed from Afghan … Read more
The Taliban took effective control of Afghanistan on Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday wrote “I fear for my Afghan sisters” in an op-ed published in The New York Times in the wake of the Taliban’s stunning takeover. “We … Read more
…remained vague on other details, however, implying people already knew the rules of Islamic law the Taliban expected them to follow. The Taliban has announced a “general amnesty” for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves as thousands rushed to Kabul airport to get out of the … Read more
According to AP, the Taliban, a militant group that ran the country in the late 1990s, have again taken control. The Taliban has given new name to Afghanistan after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul. Kabul is a bustling metropolitan city of six million but has turned into a male dominated city without police … Read more
The U.S. leader said there were others who would be eligible for movement out of the country as well United States President, Joe Biden has authorised 6,000 troops to be deployed to Afghanistan to assist in evacuating its citizens, allies and Afghan partners out of the country. Speaking to the American public from the White … Read more
Mawlavey Kamil, Taliban Governor, Andar District boasted that the fundamentalist group, which controlled most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, is stronger. The Taliban has vowed to enforce Islamic law worldwide after overrunning civil authority in Afghanistan. Muhammed Afri Mustafa, one of the Taliban commanders, made the announcement in an interview with CNN. Mustafa spoke … Read more
…Nigeria must learn that religious fundamentalism is dangerous and culminates in terrorism. A former presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu has cautioned the Nigerian government against recognizing the Taliban usurpers in Afghanistan. Moghalu said the Buhari-led government should learn from Afghanistan and stop “cuddling” repentant Boko Haram, ISWAP members. In a … Read more
Dramatic footage posted on social media shows hundreds of men running alongside a U.S. Air Force plane as it rolls down the runway, with some clinging to the side of it. Hundreds of Afghans tried to flee the now Taliban-controlled state as the mob U.S plane as it prepared to take off from Kabul airport. … Read more
UK defence secretary says the Taliban’s rapid takeover is a sign of the international community’s ‘failure’. British and NATO forces will not return to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, the United Kingdom’s defence secretary, Ben Wallace said, after the group took control of Kabul following a blistering nationwide offensive. Ben Wallace told Sky News on … Read more