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• The attack could be an indication that Boko Haram<br />
is feeling the pressure, report says<br />
Boko Haram 'attempt takeover of army base’<br />
FOURTEEN BOKO Haram<br />
fighters have been killed during<br />
a shoot-out with Nigerian<br />
soldiers as they attempted to<br />
overrun a military base in<br />
north-eastern Borno state,<br />
AFP news agency has reported.<br />
The militant group<br />
stormed the army base in<br />
eight pick-up trucks on<br />
Wednesday, but the troops<br />
were able to repel the attack<br />
with the help of reinforcements,<br />
the report adds.<br />
Eyewitness Laminu Isa<br />
told AFP that the gunmen<br />
came from the direction of<br />
Buni Yadi in Yobe State and<br />
hundreds of motorists caught<br />
up in the shooting had to detour<br />
to the nearby village of<br />
Jakana until the shooting<br />
stopped.<br />
Buni Yadi is linked to Sambisa<br />
forest - believed to be the<br />
hideout of Boko Haram<br />
leader Abubakar Shekau.<br />
DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, DECEMBER <strong>15</strong>, 2017<br />
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Muslim leaders call for recognition of East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital<br />
LEADERS FROM the 57-member<br />
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation<br />
(OIC) recognized East<br />
Jerusalem as the occupied capital<br />
of a Palestinian state and called<br />
on the international community<br />
to do the same, according to the<br />
final communique from the<br />
group's emergency summit on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
The group of mostly Muslim<br />
leaders had called an extraordinary<br />
meeting in Istanbul to discuss<br />
US President Donald<br />
Trump's controversial recognition<br />
of Jerusalem as Israel's capital last<br />
week. Trump also announced that<br />
the US Embassy would be relocated<br />
from Tel Aviv to the holy<br />
city.<br />
On Wednesday the OIC rejected<br />
Trump's move as "null and<br />
void" and said the President's<br />
"dangerous declaration" marked<br />
the US withdrawal from the Israeli-Palestinian<br />
peace process.<br />
Turkish President Recep<br />
Tayyip Erdogan declared that a<br />
"new alliance" had been formed<br />
in opposition to Trump's<br />
Jerusalem declaration, which he<br />
described as "not valid in our understanding,<br />
in our mentality and<br />
in our conscience."<br />
Erdogan said the US "can no<br />
longer act impartially" as a mediator<br />
between the Israelis and Palestinians,<br />
and that other countries<br />
needed to be identified to replace<br />
the US in that role.<br />
"We are determined to protect<br />
and preserve the historical status<br />
and sanctity of Jerusalem," Erdogan<br />
said in a speech to close the<br />
meeting. CNN<br />
Somalia suicide bomber<br />
kills police at<br />
Mogadishu academy<br />
•Wu Yongning posted videos of his climbs on Chinese social platform<br />
• Muslim Leaders<br />
ASUICIDE<br />
bomber has killed<br />
at least 18 police<br />
officers during a<br />
parade at a training<br />
centre in the<br />
Somali capital, Mogadishu.<br />
At least <strong>15</strong> other people were<br />
wounded, officials said.<br />
The bomber, disguised as a policeman,<br />
blew himself up at the<br />
General Kaahiye Police Academy.<br />
•Al-Shabab is fighting an insurgency against Somalia's UN-backed government<br />
The militant Islamist group al-<br />
Shabab has said it carried out the attack.<br />
The group regularly carries out<br />
bombings in Mogadishu and other<br />
towns.<br />
Witnesses said the officers were<br />
crowded into an open square for<br />
their early morning parade when the<br />
bomber detonated his explosives.<br />
"Some of the police were already<br />
in lines, and others were gathering,<br />
when the man in police uniform entered<br />
and blew himself up," said<br />
Hussein Ali.<br />
One police officer, Ibrahim Mohamed,<br />
said the toll would have<br />
been higher if the attacker had<br />
managed to get into the centre of<br />
the crowd.<br />
Police spokesman Maj Mohamed<br />
Hussein said officers had been rehearsing<br />
for national Police Day celebrations<br />
later this month.<br />
•Mandela's funeral is alleged to have been misspent<br />
Mandela family angry over<br />
funeral money misuse<br />
THE FAMILY of Nelson<br />
Mandela has expressed "indignation<br />
and dismay" that<br />
officials misspent about<br />
$22m (£16m) allocated to<br />
memorial events after the<br />
death of the anti-apartheid<br />
icon four years ago.<br />
His grandson Mandla<br />
spoke out for the first time<br />
since South Africa' santi-corruption<br />
watchdog said it had<br />
evidence of the disappearance<br />
of money during preparations<br />
for his funeral.<br />
Officials have been accused<br />
of inflating costs and<br />
awarding tenders fraudulently.<br />
Mandla Mandela said that<br />
anyone found guilty should<br />
face the full wrath of the law.<br />
It was difficult to believe<br />
that while the world was<br />
mourning the anti-apartheid<br />
icon "some people were allegedly<br />
conniving to profit financially<br />
by shamelessly<br />
siphoning off funds" or they<br />
were "allegedly not observing<br />
good governance", he said,<br />
adding: in terms of following<br />
due protocol‚ observing delegations<br />
or mandates.
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