MALIAN ARMY WITHDRAWS FROM KEY TESSALIT MILITARY CAMP. (PHOTO).
Malian army withdraws from key Tessalit military camp: sources Mali’s army and its Russian mercenary allies have surrendered Camp Tessalit, a strategic military post in the north, multiple sources told the AFP news agency on Friday. An official from the Tuareg-led separatist group claimed soldiers and mercenaries at the camp had "surrendered", following a fierce fight over the weekend. Simultaneous attacks in Mali by militants linked to Al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels on April 25 showed how fighters from different groups with different goals were able to strike at the heart of the West African country's military government. Gunfire and explosions were reported in the capital Bamako and around a large military base outside the capital, as well as Gao and central areas, as gunfire continuing in the northern city of Kidal. Defence minister Sadio Camara was killed at his residence in Kati, a garrison town near the capital, Bamako, following the fierce weekend fighting...
The EFCC has presented its first witness,PW1, Mukados Mohammed,against former Chairman,Daar Communications Plc,Chief Raymond Dokpesi,before Justice John Tsolo of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama,Abuja.Dokpesi and his firm,Daar investment Holdings Limited,are being prosecuted on charges related to the sum of N2.1bn he allegedly received from the Office of National Security Adviser,ONSA,between October 2014 and Match,2015 for the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential media campaign.Led by the lead prosecuting counsel,Rotimi Jacobs,SAN,Mohammed,a manager in the payment department of the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN,narrated how the N2.1billion was paid to Dokpesi between January 21,2015 and March 19,2015.
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