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Somalia has banned video platform TikTok, messaging app Telegram, and online betting website 1XBet to limit the spread of indecent content and propaganda, its communications minister has said in a statement. The order gave internet service providers until August 24 to comply. “The minister of communications orders internet companies to stop the aforementioned applications, which terrorists and immoral groups use to spread constant horrific images and misinformation to the public,” the minister, Jama Hassan Khalif, said late on Sunday. Members of the armed group al-Shabab often post about their activities on TikTok and Telegram. The decision comes days after Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said a military offensive against al-Shabab aims to eliminate the al-Qaeda-linked group in the next five months. TikTok declined to comment, saying it is awaiting official communication about the ban. Telegram said in a statement it “consistently removes terrorist propaganda in Somalia and worl...

PHOTOSNEWS: Army Rescues Another Chibok Girl Another Chibok girl, Mary Nkeki, 27, has been rescued by the Nigerian Army troops of Operation Hadin Kai Theater Command. She was rescued on August 14 along with her repentant insurgent husband called Adam, by troops of 81 Task Force Battalion at Dikwa during an operation into the terrorists' enclave.  "She is on serial number 55 of the abducted Chibok girl list Now 27 years old Kibaku by tribe," the Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai, Maj. Gen. Gold Chibuisi told newsmen on Monday, August 21.   "While in captivity, she was forcefully married to one Adam, a Boko Haram terrorist,"  Gen. Chibuisi disclosed before handing her over to Borno State Government officials. "Since her rescue, she has undergone thorough medical examination in our medical facility. Equally, she has been adequately resuscitated and will be handed over to Borno state," he said. Mary told newsmen shortly after she was handed over to th...

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