'Terrorist incident' on London underground near Parsons Green prompts police investigation

Police and ambulance services are responding to a reported explosion at the London tube station. Witnesses described a chaotic scene with flames tearing through a tube car and passengers left with bad facial burns.

London emergency and counterterrorism units responded to an incident in an underground car at the Parsons Green tube that took place around 8:20 a.m. (0720 UTC) on Friday morning.
Police confirmed they are treating it as a "terrorist incident," though they have not confirmed the cause. Tube passengers described a fire in the car after an apparent explosion and commuters with bad burns.
British Prime Minister Theresa May scheduled an emergency cabinet meeting for Wednesday afternoon at Whitehall. London Mayor Sadiq Khan will also attend.

London's Metropolitan police reported Friday that its Counter Terrorism Command unit was treating an incident on the London underground system as terrorism.

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Details are just beginning to emerge following the invasion by the Nigerian army of the home of leader, Nnamdi kanu on Thursday. Online publications and influencers in Nigeria shared pictures of Nnamdi Obi, a member of IPOB who was reportedly killed by the army on Thursday.

A well known Nigerian blogger wrote: “His name is Nnamdi Obi. He was among the people the Nigerian army killed yesterday, Thursday September 14, 2017 at the family compound of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Afara Umuahia, Abia. Until his death, he was a committed member of IPOB.

May his soul and that of hundreds of IPOB members killed by Nigerian military RIP. Amen” Members of Biafra, led by leader Nnamdi Kanu say the Igbo are being treated poorly in Nigeria and should break up to form an independent country called the Biafra Republic.

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In Togo, protesters are calling for the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe. The opposition is confident that it will be successful in forcing a change in government. But will the president go voluntarily?

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Central African Republic president Faustin-Archange Touadera sacked his defense minister on Tuesday evening, according to a state radio broadcast, amid growing violence that threatens to spin the country out of control.

The dismissal of Joseph Yakete was part of a wider Cabinet reshuffle. The statement did not say if his dismissal was related directly to growing violence.

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A girl with a bomb strapped to her walked into a mosque in northern Cameroon where it exploded, killing five worshippers in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, authorities said.

The girl of 12 or 13 years old arrived at the Sanda-Wadjiri mosque in remote Kolofata at the first call to prayer at between five and six a.m., the governor of Cameroon’s Far North region Midjiyawa Bakary told Reuters by telephone.

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A group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria, formerly known as Biafra, on Tuesday accused the army of laying siege to their leader’s home, a charge the armed forces denied.

Rising tensions prompted the governor of Abia state, where the leader’s residence is located, to impose a curfew.

Abia state governor Okezie Ikpeazu said in a statement that people were advised to observe a curfew from 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) to 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) from Sept. 12 to Sept. 14.

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group said soldiers had surrounded the home of leader Nnamdi Kanu. Groups have stepped up calls for secession since Kanu was released on bail in April after being detained for nearly two years on charges of criminal conspiracy and belonging to an illegal society.

“There was no surrounding of Nnamdi Kanu’s residence. It is not true,” said army spokesman Sani Usman.

Secessionist sentiment has simmered in the region since the Biafra separatist rebellion tipped Africa’s most populous country into a civil war in 1967-70 that killed an estimated one million people.

The military presence in southeastern Nigeria has increased in the last few weeks to crack down on crime.

The IPOB also said that soldiers stormed Kanu’s family compound on Sunday, which the army also denied.

Politicians waded into the dispute on Tuesday. A caucus of southeastern lawmakers in the Senate, the upper chamber of parliament, said in a statement through its chairman Enyinnaya Abaribe that the military had sent a “strong signal that the region is under siege, which should not be so in a democracy”.

Renewed calls for Biafran secession prompted President Muhammadu Buhari to use his first speech after returning from three months of medical leave in Britain, in August, to say Nigeria’s unity was “not negotiable”.

Amnesty International in 2016 accused Nigeria’s security forces of killing at least 150 Biafra separatists at peaceful rallies. The military and police denied the allegations.

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