The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has gotten himself a fresh appointment three years after leaving Buhari's government.
US sanctions targeted Nigeria-based bureaux de change and global facilitators accused of financing ISIS, blocking assets and disrupting terrorist funding networks.
European interior ministers welcomed Friday an EU plan to better coordinate the handling of migrant arrivals, after a furious row over a refugee rescue boat erupted between Italy and France. "The Ocean Viking crisis was a bit of improvisation," Schinas admitted, defending the new plan from his commission to better coordinate rescues and migrant and refugee arrivals.
Police stepped up their presence on the streets of Honduras Friday after President Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency to quash a rise in gang activity in the Central American nation. "To strengthen efforts to recover lawless areas in the neighborhoods, in villages, in departments, I declare a national state of emergency," said Castro on Thursday.
M23 rebels were still fighting and advancing on one front of their offensive in east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday as a ceasefire came into force, civilian and military sources said. M23 rebels were to withdraw from "occupied zones", failing which the East African regional force would intervene.
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