By Guyson Nanagayi – ABUJA- (Reuters) – At least eight people have been killed and three others injured in car bomb explosions near a parade in Nigeria’s capital on Friday during the marking of 50th anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain , police said. Two blasts, which also destroyed three cars, came an hour after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Nigeria’s biggest rebel militia, warned it had planted several bombs and told people to evacuate the area. “Two car bombs exploded and eight people are confirmed dead,” Abuja police spokesman Jimoh Moshood told Reuters. “Several... Continue Reading
By Guyson Nanagayi – Geneva – AFP- The UN on Friday published a hotly-contested report detailing massacres by foreign armies and rebels saying acts of genocide may have been committed in the DR Congo. Although the report was published, Rwanda, whose troops are at the center of the most serious accusations, said it categorically rejected the report after it failed to have it suppressed.”The government of Rwanda categorically rejects this report,” said a statement. “The desire to validate the double genocide theory is consistently present throughout The Draft Mapping Report by mirror imaging’ the actors, ideology, and methods employed during... Continue Reading
By Mohamed Nuxurkey – As violence increasingly became more precarious in the Somali capital of Mogadishu thousands of students put themselves at risk every day during their daily lessons along with growing threats of about being questioned any time that they are or they may be part of conflicting sides in the Somali’s political havoc. According to the students themselves many of them lost their lives in this ongoing bloodshed some of them were forced to join the war while others were sent to outside of the country for better education by the parents. “My name is Omar Habiib one... Continue Reading
By Guyson Nanagayi – Lusaka – AFP- Zambian government has relocated more than 1 500 DRC refugees back to their country after the closure of a camp, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. “A total of 1 555 Congolese refuges have been relocated from Mwange and Kala to Maheba in the Northwestern province,” UNHCR programme officer Robert Taban said in a statement. This is the final year of a voluntary repatriation programme launched in 2007 to encourage Congolese refugees in Zambia to return to the DRC. So far 40 000 of them have heeded the call according to... Continue Reading
By Guyson Nanagayi – Cairo — AFP- An Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for ordering the murder of popular Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, and ex-lover, more than a year after he was sentenced to death, state television reported. Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a senior member of Egypt’s ruling party and his associate Mohsen) al-Sukkari had been sentenced in May 2009 to hang for the July 2008 murder of Tamim in Dubai but, in March, an appeals court overturned the convictions on procedural grounds and ordered a retrial. He was then was sentenced to... Continue Reading
