Abuja, Nigeria –Nigerian women are hoping to use Saturday’s local elections to change the country’s political dynamics by triggering an upset in the polls. Women’s groups have been mobilising support for female candidates seeking office, appealing to women voters to utilise their numerical strength to support their own during the governorship and state house of assembly elections. “Women have to rise up and now that… Read more »
(CNN)A Kenyan pilot and four American tourists were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, aviation authorities and police said on Monday.The helicopter crashed in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana on the country’s northern border at 8:35 p.m. Sunday (2:35 a.m. ET), Kenya’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on its website.”A rescue team was dispatched immediately and… Read more »
Nairobi (CNN)Flights were disrupted at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport due to a strike by Kenya’s aviation workers union, Kenya Airports Authority said on Wednesday.Hundreds of passengers were left stranded Wednesday morning outside Kenya’s main international airport in the Kenyan capital Nairobi as flights had to be rescheduled for several hours later than their official take off time.Kenya Airways said… Read more »
President Muhammadu Buhari has won the 2019 presidential election polling 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest challenger and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party. Mr Abubakar, who served as vice president between 1999 and 2007, polled 11,262,978 votes to finish as runner-up. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared Mr Buhari… Read more »
MORE ON SUDAN Will Sudan’s protesters agree to negotiate with Omar al-Bashir?today Sudan’s al-Bashir cracks down on proteststoday Sudan’s Bashir reshuffles top team amid state of emergency4 days ago Sudan’s protests: Defying Bashir’s media blackoutlast week Sudan‘s President Omar al-Bashir banned public gatherings and protests in a series of emergency decrees issued on Monday as he faces the most sustained anti-government street unrest of his… Read more »
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been declared winner of the country’s elections, according to the electoral commission who said he polled 56 percent of the votes.Buhari, who first came to power in 2015 after defeating then-incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, defeated his main challenger Atiku Abubakar by a margin of nearly four million votes in results announced by the Independent… Read more »
CNN)Botswana, long considered a safe haven for elephants in Africa, has “a significant elephant-poaching problem,” according to a conservationist group that carried out an aerial wildlife survey in the country.Elephants Without Borders said it witnessed a spike in the number of elephant carcasses found in northern Botswana which show “obvious signs” of poaching, according to the final results of the… Read more »
Several people have been killed in a stampede at a rally in support of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari‘s candidacy days before the country’s presidential and legislative elections, his office has said. The incident on Tuesday took place in Port Harcourt, a southern city in the Niger Delta oil-production heartland. Buhari’s office said in a statement the president had been “informed of the… Read more »
(CNN)Canada has announced it will take in 750 refugees from Libya, some rescued from migrant detention centers.Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said in a statement that Canada had already resettled more than 150 people, with another 600 anticipated to arrive in the next two years.Two years ago, CNN revealed video footage that showed migrants being sold into slavery in Libya, some for as… Read more »
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Sudanese refugee stuck in an Australian detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea for five years has been awarded a major international human rights prize for revealing the harsh reality of Canberra’s off-shore refugee policy. Abdul Aziz Muhamat, 25, was named the 2019 Martin Ennals Laureate on Thursday for his advocacy in… Read more »