LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year. The New York Times said three current or former U.S. officials “expressed confidence” that Qasim al-Raymi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in Yemen, although there was no…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia executed the highest number of prisoners in recent years in 2019, a year that saw the kingdom come under intense scrutiny over its human rights record, a new report says. In total, 184 people were executed last year, including 90 foreign nationals, according to a report by the legal charity…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten years after the foiled bombing of a US-bound flight from Amsterdam, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, the father of the underwear bomber, Farouk, has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time, describing it as the most trying of his life. Mutallab senior, who is 80 years old, said he initially…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.N. refugee and migration agencies say the bodies of at least 30 Somalis and Ethiopians were found drowned this week off the Yemeni coast near Aden. They are believed to have been traveling in a smuggler’s boat. Survivors say the overcrowded boat was packed with 152 Somalis and Ethiopians heading for…
