About 500 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim community were rescued Sunday, in a boat, which had on board, mostly women and children and traveling off northern Indonesia. The ill-fated boat landed in troubles when stranded in waters off Aceh province. It would be recalled Myanmar, formerly referred to as Burma, declined the Rohingya as her […]
By Ayo Balogun – The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an interim warning about the possibility of contract of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) through sexual transmission. The body gave the hint Saturday, in a statement it issued in Lagos. Consequently, the world heath body had directed EVD survivors and their sexual partners […]
By Our Reporters – The British Prime Minister, David Cameron and his Conservative Party are coasting to victory in the country’s general elections which commenced Thursday. With projections and partial results released Friday morning, there are strong indications that the Conservative will at a minimum, win overall majority in the Parliament. With emerging results, the Conservatives fall […]
General polls to usher in new Prime Minister and new parliament are underway in the United Kingdom (UK). The elections which opened Thursday at 0600 GMT and expected to be rounded of 2100 GMT is being contested by the Conservative party, which formed alliance with the Liberal Democrats in 2010 polls and put an end […]
Two weeks after 800 passengers perished in Malta when the boat they were traveling with, to Europe, capsized in the Mediterranean, dozens of migrants have again drowned in the sea after a boat sank in the south of Sicily. According to Save the Children aid Group, survivors of the ill fated boat fell into the […]
–As EU Leaders Move To Check Influx Of Migrants A multi-faith funerals service has been held in Malta, for 24 victims killed in the worst ever recorded capsizing, of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean. No fewer than 800 passengers died in last Sunday’s disaster. The Italian police indicated that the captain mistakenly crashed the […]
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the country’s first freely elected leader. The Cairo criminal court issued the verdict as Morsi and other defendants in the case – mostly Muslim Brotherhood […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently take legal action against the South African Government before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to seek effective remedies, including adequate compensation, for Nigerian victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. In a statement on Monday […]
As Xenophobic attacks rage in South Africa, the indicted Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini has called for calm in the affected areas. The King was accused last week of provoking the bloody protest, in which no fewer than seven people (foreigners) have been killed, after directing that the foreigners should return to their countries. While addressing […]
A US-based group, Socio Political Awareness Forum, SPAF has condemned in strong terms, the recent and unfortunate trend of xenophobia in the Republic of South Africa. Rising from an emergency meeting from its Milwaukee WI, USA base, the group expressed its total dismay at the spate of killings in the former Apartheid thorn zone, stating […]
South African President Jacob Zuma has condemned the xenophobic attacks on foreigners, in which not less than five people have died since it started. President Zuma described the attack as “shocking and unacceptable”. No fewer than 5,000 people involved in a rally, held in the country’s coastal city of Durban Thursday, against the foreigners. The […]
After the last week’s attack by al-Shabab on Garissa University, which left 148 people dead, Kenyan fighter jets had bombarded the insurgents’ base in the neighbouring Somalia. In the shelling, the warplanes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, used by the militants to cross from the border to Kenya. The Kenya Military image-maker, David […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari has consoled the people of Kenya over terrorist attack, killings at Garissa Varsity. The President-elect in a statement in Abuja said that terrorists are a scourge all across Africa and the world. He said that the world must confront them together, using all the tools at […]
A terror attack on Kenya’s North Eastern University has reportedly left at least 15 people dead while students were taken hostage. It was reported that no fewer than 65 people also sustained varying degrees of injuries after gunmen attacked the campus in Garissa. A Somali militant group, Al-Shabab with links to al-Qaeda has said it […]
Some leaders including the German, Angela Merkel, French Francois Hollande and Spanish Mariano Rajoy have visited the scene of Tuesday, Germanwings plane crash. During the visit, the leaders were briefed on their mission at the crash site of the Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, but came down after an […]
Sierra Leone’s Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has gone into hiding while he seeks political asylum at the US embassy in the capital, Freetown. Mr Sam-Sumana told the BBC he and his wife fled their home after “a tip-off” that soldiers were surrounding it. The move comes a week after his expulsion from the ruling party. Two […]
A British Airways flight was forced to return to England because of a ‘smelly poo’ left in a toilet. Councillor Abhishek Sachdev, from Hertfordshire, says he was on the BA flight to Dubai when it was forced to return to Heathrow. It is understood that cabin crew unsuccessfully tried to fix the problem, but the […]
The South African government is concerned its nationals may be working as mercenaries in Nigeria in the war against the Boko Haram militant group. Nigerian government spokesman Mike Omeri told the BBC that foreigners were just training troops in the use of new weapons. Nigeria has recently bought helicopter gunships and tanks from South Africa […]
Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the 2010 elections. Gbagbo, 65, had been charged with undermining state security. Her husband, former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, is awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). More than 3,000 people […]
Many schools in Liberia have reopened, six months after they were closed to try to curb the spread of Ebola. Pupils welcomed the move, but some raised fears that the deadly disease had not yet been totally eradicated. Staff at school gates were equipped with thermometers to take pupils’ temperatures and buckets of chlorinated water […]
