AFRICAN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN SOMALIA ‘NEEDS 8,000 MORE TROOPS’.(PHOTO).

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 African peacekeeping mission in Somalia ‘needs 8,000 more troops’ The African peacekeeping mission in Somalia requires an additional 8,000 troops, even as Burundi is expected to withdraw its contingent, a statement from military heads from troop-contributing countries said, AP reported. The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia, or AUSSOM, is tasked with combating the Al-Shabab group, whose attacks are stoking fears of a terrorist resurgence in the Horn of Africa nation. But Burundi’s planned pullout, which diplomatic sources said was triggered by a spat with Mogadishu over the state of its soldiers’ equipment, would deprive the mission of around one-fifth of its current manpower. Envoys from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, the African Union, and multilateral organizations held a three-day meeting in Uganda this week to discuss the security situation in Somalia and the progress of AUSSOM. In a statement, the officials said insufficient troop...
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UPDATE: ON FRIDAY A KANO HOUSEWIFE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND'S 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, AISHA SANI. (PHOTO).

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 The Kano State High Court, Kano, on Friday, sentenced a housewife, Fadila Adamu, to death by hanging for the murder of her childhood friend’s eight-year-old daughter, Aisha Sani. 


In 2019, Fadila kidnapped the minor on her way home from Islamiyya school and threw her into a well, causing her death. 


Aisha’s corpse was discovered in the well at Gandu Albasa Quarters two weeks after she went missing. 


The defendant, who lived at the Sabuwar Gandu Quarters Kano, was convicted of kidnapping and culpable homicide.


Delivering judgement, trial judge Yusuf Muhammad-Ubale ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced the defendant to death by hanging.


“I hereby sentence the defendant to death by hanging for kidnapping and throwing the victim into a well which caused her d3ath,” he ruled.


Earlier, the prosecution lawyer, Lamido Abba-Sorondinki, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on 14 July 2019, at Tudun Wada Quarters, Kano.


He said that at about 4:45 p.m, the defendant kidnapped the minor and took her to her house.


“The defendant told her sister that the deceased was the daughter of her friend, whose mother had travelled to Ghana, and asked her to keep the child until she returned.


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