BRICS to flot development bank for infrastructure
World March 28, 2013
(AP) — Leaders of five of the world’s emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure plans — a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias. But the rulers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and... Read more
Guinea’s oppositon back out of talks
Uncategorized March 28, 2013
(AP) — Aboubacar Sylla, a spokesman for Guinea’s coalition of opposition parties, announced that the country’s opposition is pulling out of talks with the ruling party, negotiations initiated by President Alpha Conde last month in an attempt to resolve the political feud that has consumed the West African nation... Read more
(AP) — Vote totals for Kenya’s president-elect mysteriously increased between the time the ballot numbers were announced at some remote polling centers and when they reached the national tallying center in the capital, a lawyer for a civil society group told the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday. Kenya’s six-justice... Read more
PAPER PRESENTED @ SAMUEL ADEMOYEGA UNIVERSITY, OGWA EDO STAE NIGEIRA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND DIPLOMATIC STUDIES CONFERENCE, BY INNOCENT UGOCHUKWU OWUTU CPP, MISN, MSPSP B.A. (HONS) HISTORY ADV. DIP SECURITY MGT M.A. PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES M.SC INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ... Read more
(AP) — Aid groups and the international community on Tuesday condemned widespread looting in Central African Republic’s capital, saying that even hospitals had been robbed in the aftermath of a weekend coup that ousted the president of a decade. Efforts to restore order to Bangui, a city of 700,000,... Read more
Border violence halts return of Ivorien refugees
Africa March 27, 2013
(AP) — U.N. officials in Liberia say they’ve temporarily halted the repatriation of tens of thousands of refugees from Ivory Coast because of continued unrest near the border between the two countries. Robert Tibagwa of the U.N. refugee agency told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a convoy of... Read more
(AP) — A British businessman was abducted Saturday in Lagos, a rare case of expatriate kidnapping in this West African nation’s commercial center, Nigerian police said Tuesday. Nigeria’s police spokesman Frank Mba told The Associated Press that kidnappers probably followed their victim as he was leaving a nightclub in... Read more
(AP) — A South African court sentenced a Nigerian to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of masterminding twin car bombings in Nigeria. Henry Okah was found guilty in January for the October 2010 bombing in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, that killed at least 12 people... Read more
(AP) Kenya’s Supreme Court has denied two requests by the legal team of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who has asked the court to order a new presidential election. The court this week hears arguments from Odinga’s team and civil society groups on why the March 4 election should be... Read more
THE GREAT IROKO JOURNEY’S FORTH By Pat Utomi Do you see an iroko, not just an iroko but an iroko of Irokos, king of trees rising with its fonts to the tree top levels and doing a jig, a display of the Ulaga dance as the jungle falls silent... Read more
