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Cuban Government: US Military Deployment in the Caribbean Sea Threatens the Region Under Absurd Pretexts
Cuban Government: US Military Deployment in the Caribbean Sea Threatens the Region Under Absurd Pretexts
By: Michael Mike
The Cuban Government has rejected the current deployment of United States military forces in the Caribbean Sea, stating that this action represents a serious threat and an aggressive show of force against the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Cuba further said this action ignores the commitment of the 33 Member States of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States when they proclaimed the region as a Zone of Peace.
A statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs made available at the weekend to our correspondent, said the US claims associating the legitimate government of Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro with criminal organisations involved in illegal drug trafficking is an absurd pretext that is unfounded.
It alleged that leaders in Washington are irresponsibly disregarding the assessment of their own Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that, in its report this year, does not mention the Venezuelan Government among the authors or enablers of drug trafficking operations threatening the United States territory.
The statement further read: “The Government of the United States resorts to lies once again to justify violence and plunder. They use them in the renewed implementation of the dominance scheme based on the Monroe Doctrine, key to their interventionism in the American continent.
“On the basis of similar fallacies, they have carried out ruthless aggressions resulting in considerable and protracted human costs. An example from recent decades was the charade about the alleged presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This pretext served to attack and invade a sovereign country, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of its citizens and the forced displacement of a similar figure.”
It alleged that: “The United States is the largest market of narcotic drugs in the region and possibly the world, according to the World Drug Report 2025, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This fact is well-known and the international community must denounce it. It is in the US where the largest networks are located, encouraging consumption, guaranteeing distribution, facilitating traffic, collection and accumulation of the large proceeds. Such networks launder the resulting drug money within the country’s own economy with relative impunity, without serious and effective efforts being made by the government to stop it.
“The immense proceeds from the illegal US market encourage the emergence and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. That country’s powerful arms industry and its uncontrolled privileges for commercialization feed the deadly power of the region’s criminal organisations. Neglect and failure to act on the root causes of the phenomenon within the United States will only intensify the regional impact of this scourge.
Cuba reiterated its firm commitment with the honest and effective fight against illegal trafficking in drugs, the defense of the national sovereignty and the promotion of peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It also denounced in equally strong terms the use of irregular migration flows as an excuse to turn the waters of the Caribbean Sea into a war zone. No one with minimum common sense and honesty believe that the quantity of the troops, the combat materiel, naval forces, including nuclear submarines, and the firepower that the United States has sought to deploy in this peaceful area of the world, is the appropriate manner to fight organized crime, illicit drug trafficking or irregular migration flows, nor that such deployment is truly pursuing its stated goals.
The statement added that: “Cuba reiterates the call made by President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the 13th Extraordinary Summit of ALBA-TCP, last 20 August, to firmly denounce the new imperialist shows of force.”
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Bandits kill three, injure teenager in Niger community attack
By: Zagazola Makama
Armed bandits have killed three persons and injured a teenage girl in an attack on Bakinbara village, Babanna district, Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State.
Sources said the attack occurred in the early hours of Sept. 19, when bandits in large numbers stormed the community.
“Two young men, identified as Ismaila Magaji, 28, and Joshua Magaji, 25, were captured, tied under a tree and slaughtered by the attackers.
“The village head of Bakinbara, Usman Sabi, 85, was shot dead, while a 14-year-old girl, Fatima Ahmadu, sustained gunshot wounds on her left leg,” he said.
According to the sources , the hoodlums also set ablaze six houses and a motorcycle before fleeing into the forest.
Army troops, police and local hunters had been deployed to the area and were on the trail of the attackers.
The sources added that the injured victim was taken to General Hospital, New-Bussa, where she was receiving treatment.
Bandits kill three, injure teenager in Niger community attack
VP SHETTIMA LEADS NIGERIA’S DELEGATION TO 80TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK
By: Our Reporter
On the directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, Vice President Kashim Shettima will lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly holding in New York, United States of America, between Monday, September 22 and Sunday 28, 2025.
Senator Shettima who is scheduled to join other leaders at the global event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the United Nations slated for Monday, September 22 at the UN headquarters in New York, will also join other dignitaries at the high-level general debates from Tuesday, September 23 to Sunday 28.
On behalf of President Tinubu, VP Shettima will also deliver Nigeria’s national statement on Wednesday, September 24 between 3:00pm and 9:00pm, New York time.
Besides, the Vice President will attend a special event on Climate for Heads of State and Government to be hosted by the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday, September 24, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm, where Nigeria is expected to announce its new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement.
Senator Shettima is also slated to attend the high-level roundtable of the Global Champions on Adequate and Affordable Housing to be hosted by the President of Kenya on September 24 and attend to other bilateral meetings and events.
After attending UNGA, the Vice President will leave for Frankfurt, Germany, where he is slated to meet with officials of the Deutche Bank before returning to Nigeria.
VP SHETTIMA LEADS NIGERIA’S DELEGATION TO 80TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK
NAF neutralises 32 insurgents after attack on Banki that claimed two soldier, civilian
By: Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised 32 Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents following a coordinated night attack on Banki, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.
Zagazola gathered that the attack, which occurred on Sept. 18 at about 10:15 p.m., targeted Bula Yobe Forward Operating Base (FOB), 152 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, and the Divisional Police Headquarters in Banki.
Two soldiers and a nine-year-old boy, identified as Ismail Abubakar, were killed during the assault, while three military vehicles were set ablaze by the terrorists.
According to sources, the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai was tasked after ground troops in Bula Yobe and Banki came under heavy attack.
An Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, Grey Raptor, was deployed to track the movement of the insurgents after withdrew northwards from Banki.
Guided by the ISR feed, two A-29 Super Tucano aircraft carried out three successive air interdiction passes, engaging terrorists moving along a track and others gathered at two separate assembly points with logistics.
The coordinated strikes neutralised more than 25 insurgents in the assembly areas and others on the move, bringing the total figure to 32.
The bodies of the two fallen soldiers were evacuated to the Headquarters of Operation Hadin Kai in Maiduguri, while that of the minor was released to relatives for burial in line with Islamic rites.
To stabilise the area, additional reinforcements, have been deployed to Banki and its environs.
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