Afghan Defence Minister, Abdullah Habibi and Army Chief of Staff Qadam Shah Shahim stepped down with immediate effect, after more than 140 soldiers were killed last week in the deadliest ever Taliban attack on a military base. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani accepted the resignations of his defense minister and army chief of staff on Monday, the president's office said. The resignations were because of Friday's attack on a major army base in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. In a serious security failure, as many as 10 Taliban fighters, dressed in Afghan army uniforms and driving military vehicles, made their way onto the base and opened fire on soldiers and new recruits eating a meal and leaving a mosque after Friday prayers. The attackers used rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, and suicide vests in the attack . Ghani declared Sunday a day of mourning, ordering flags to be flown at half staff.
The federal government has denied reports of injection of monkey pox virus on people in their medical outreach across the country. Minister of health Isaac Adewole gave the clarification while briefing journalists after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting. The minister said although the military embark upon periodic medical outreach it is not currently involved in any vaccination. In the last few weeks, there have apprehension in some states of the country over the medical outreach being conducted by the military. The gesture has been misunderstood given series of deaths that occured in some places after the military’s medical outreach making parents suspect that the exercise is aimed at injecting monkey pox virus into their wards. But the minister of health said the medical outreach is never meant to harm anyone, even though the exercise is not part of government vaccination. The minister also gave update on the spread of the Monkey pox disease, saying seventy-...
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