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Niger has agreed to transfer hundreds of prisoners from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram back to their home country of Nigeria to reduce pressure on its crammed prisons, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Boko Haram militants mostly operate in northeastern Nigeria but have also stepped up their insurgency within Niger's southern region of Diffa in recent months, carrying out dozens of attacks. Niger has declared a state of emergency there in an effort to improve security and has made hundreds of arrests.
"Nigeria sent a working group here (to Niger) last week and the two sides have established an initial list of 500 detainees who will soon be transferred to Nigeria," said a magistrate working on the case who asked not to be named. He did not give the exact timing of the transfer or say how the potentially dangerous prisoners would be transported.
The prisoners are currently being held in the detention centers of Kollo, Diffa and Koutoukale, all of which are overpopulated due to arrests of Boko Haram militants, a justice ministry source said. Niger and Nigeria are both members of an 8,700-strong regional taskforce dedicated to destroying a group that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions in its push to create an Islamic caliphate in the region. However, the task force's operations have stalled for logistical reasons, security sources say, and regional armies are instead seeking to counter the group alone.
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Cameroonian born Imbolo Mbue’s book “Behold the Dreamers”, about a Cameroonian immigrant chauffeur working for a Lehman Brothers executive during the firm’s 2008 collapse was snagged by Random House in a book deal for at least $1 million.
Imbolo Mbue burst into the limelight late last year after signing a million dollar deal with Random House for her debut manuscript.
The novel titled Behold the Dreamers follows the travails of a Cameroonian immigrant and a Lehman Brothers executive during the 2008 financial crisis. One million dollar advance? It’s a first for an African novelist. The African literary community lit up. We all lost our minds.
This is huge, we crooned. After the enormity of the news sank in, the nosy blogger in me went in search of a photograph. Who was this brand new voice taking the African literary community completely by surprise? For each of the four posts I have since written about Mbue’s novel, I have had to search high and low, googled left and right for a photograph and found nothing.
She has no profile in any of the social media platforms and stays pretty much under the radar.
But that’s all in the past because thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we can now put a face to Africa’s literary MVP. Mbue’s photograph was included in an article profiling debut novels with seven figure advances. We fell in love with her writing when we read “Emke.”
(Wall Streeet Journal)
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Cameroonian born Imbolo Mbue’s book “Behold the Dreamers”, about a Cameroonian immigrant chauffeur working for a Lehman Brothers executive during the firm’s 2008 collapse was snagged by Random House in a book deal for at least $1 million.
Imbolo Mbue burst into the limelight late last year after signing a million dollar deal with Random House for her debut manuscript.
The novel titled Behold the Dreamers follows the travails of a Cameroonian immigrant and a Lehman Brothers executive during the 2008 financial crisis. One million dollar advance? It’s a first for an African novelist. The African literary community lit up. We all lost our minds.
This is huge, we crooned. After the enormity of the news sank in, the nosy blogger in me went in search of a photograph. Who was this brand new voice taking the African literary community completely by surprise? For each of the four posts I have since written about Mbue’s novel, I have had to search high and low, googled left and right for a photograph and found nothing.
She has no profile in any of the social media platforms and stays pretty much under the radar.
But that’s all in the past because thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we can now put a face to Africa’s literary MVP. Mbue’s photograph was included in an article profiling debut novels with seven figure advances. We fell in love with her writing when we read “Emke.”
(Wall Streeet Journal)
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Cameroonian born Imbolo Mbue’s book “Behold the Dreamers”, about a Cameroonian immigrant chauffeur working for a Lehman Brothers executive during the firm’s 2008 collapse was snagged by Random House in a book deal for at least $1 million.
Imbolo Mbue burst into the limelight late last year after signing a million dollar deal with Random House for her debut manuscript.
The novel titled Behold the Dreamers follows the travails of a Cameroonian immigrant and a Lehman Brothers executive during the 2008 financial crisis. One million dollar advance? It’s a first for an African novelist. The African literary community lit up. We all lost our minds.
This is huge, we crooned. After the enormity of the news sank in, the nosy blogger in me went in search of a photograph. Who was this brand new voice taking the African literary community completely by surprise? For each of the four posts I have since written about Mbue’s novel, I have had to search high and low, googled left and right for a photograph and found nothing.
She has no profile in any of the social media platforms and stays pretty much under the radar.
But that’s all in the past because thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we can now put a face to Africa’s literary MVP. Mbue’s photograph was included in an article profiling debut novels with seven figure advances. We fell in love with her writing when we read “Emke.”
(Wall Streeet Journal)
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Cameroonian born Imbolo Mbue’s book “Behold the Dreamers”, about a Cameroonian immigrant chauffeur working for a Lehman Brothers executive during the firm’s 2008 collapse was snagged by Random House in a book deal for at least $1 million.
Imbolo Mbue burst into the limelight late last year after signing a million dollar deal with Random House for her debut manuscript.
The novel titled Behold the Dreamers follows the travails of a Cameroonian immigrant and a Lehman Brothers executive during the 2008 financial crisis. One million dollar advance? It’s a first for an African novelist. The African literary community lit up. We all lost our minds.
This is huge, we crooned. After the enormity of the news sank in, the nosy blogger in me went in search of a photograph. Who was this brand new voice taking the African literary community completely by surprise? For each of the four posts I have since written about Mbue’s novel, I have had to search high and low, googled left and right for a photograph and found nothing.
She has no profile in any of the social media platforms and stays pretty much under the radar.
But that’s all in the past because thanks to the Wall Street Journal, we can now put a face to Africa’s literary MVP. Mbue’s photograph was included in an article profiling debut novels with seven figure advances. We fell in love with her writing when we read “Emke.”
(Wall Streeet Journal)
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Nigerian troops have recorded another achievement in their battle against Boko Haram insurgents. Gallant troops of 28 Task Force Brigade today arrested another Boko Haram terrorist suspect, Abdullahi Abubakar Sadiq who is said to be the insurgents' Chief Cameraman and suspect number 58 on the list of 100 suspected Boko Haram terrorists wanted list.
Sadiq was arrested at Uba town, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.Also,the gallant soldiers arrested two other suspected terrorists at Rumirgo and Kilakasa.
Usman described the arrest as an “unprecedented achievement” and said the suspected terrorist was arrested by vigilant troops of 28 Task Force Brigade.
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