Out of my four articles, I found the one on the five year sentence on the former Nigerian governor to be the most interesting. Most people feel that when they get into a position of power they are invisible and they won’t receive any consequence. One of these people was the former Nigerian governor, Bala James Ngilari. While he was governor… Read more »
The conviction of Bala James Ngilari, a former governor of Adamawa statein Nigeria, by the Yola high court, presided over by Justice Nathan Musa, might portend an end to the common belief that most senior government officials can misappropriate public funds without any accompanying punishment. Nigeria’s 36 state governors are powerful. Not only do they count among the most powerful… Read more »
A commercial plane on Monday made a crash landing in poor weather at an airport in South Sudan, causing several injuries among the 43 on board. “It is miraculous, completely,” said Ateny Wek Ateny, the South Sudanese presidential spokesperson. “There are only minor injuries. There was no single death.”
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has warned of the “dangers” of the DA adopting the ANC policy of “African racial nationalism” to get votes. “The real danger is that the DA, in its quest for votes, may start to swallow every tenet, myth and shibboleth of African racial-nationalist propaganda, including the scape-goating of minorities, populist mobilisation and political patronage,” Zille… Read more »
Burundi has declared a malaria epidemic after more than nine million cases were recorded since last year. According to the Burundi’s Health minister Dr Josiane Nijimbere, more than 3,700 people have died from the mosquito-borne disease since 2016.
Out of my four articles this week, I found the one about Morocco withdrawing from a buffer zone in the Western Sahara very interested. Recently Morocco was let back into the African Union after 33 years of leaving it. With its rejoining, it was looking to get some advantage over the long disputed territory, the Western Sahara. That is why… Read more »
A South African court on Wednesday ruled the government’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was “unconstitutional and invalid”, providing a boost to the embattled Hague-based institution. The ICC has been rocked by threats of withdrawal in recent months, with complaints focusing on its alleged bias against Africa.
At least 110 people, most of them women and children, have died from starvation and drought-related illness in Somalia in the past 48 hours, Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire said Saturday. Khaire made the announcement while speaking to the drought committee in Mogadishu, four days after President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo declared the drought a national disaster. The death toll covers… Read more »
Morocco on Sunday announced the withdrawal of its forces from a U.N. buffer zone in the disputed Western Sahara territory, where for months they had been in a standoff with troops from the Polisario independence movement. The move took place days after a phone call between Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and will reduce military… Read more »
The forces of eastern Libya’s military strongman Khalifa Haftar have lost control of a key oil export terminal they had seized last year, a spokesman conceded on Saturday. Colonel Ahmad al-Mismari said that the rival forces had overrun the main airfield in the oil port of Ras Lanuf and identified them as Islamists of the Benghazi Defence Brigades.