Liberia gets new chief justice
Africa April 16, 2013
(AP) — Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Francis Korkpor will be the country’s new chief justice. Korkpor, 61, will replace Johnny Lewis who resigned last year due to ill health. Until his appointment as chief justice, Korpor, a devout Catholic, acted as the interim chief justice. Korkpor has... Read more
Operatives arrests hundreds of immigrants in Nigeria
Nigeria April 16, 2013
(AP) — The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria’s largest city, some with bruises around their faces and cuts on their arms. A series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days has brought fear to Katangua Market in Lagos,... Read more
Death toll in Somalia court attack now 35
Africa April 16, 2013
(AP) — The death toll rose Monday to at least 35 killed in the most serious Islamic extremist attack in years on Mogadishu, a government official said. Islamic radicals from al-Shabab launched a multi-pronged attack against the country’s Supreme Court complex on Sunday. The interior minister said nine militants... Read more
PAPER PRESENTED @ 7TH ANNUAL SECURITY CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTE OF SECURITY NIGERIA, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS AUDITORIUM 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
Sudan, South Sudan to resume border trade, oil exports
Africa April 13, 2013
(AP) — South Sudan’s president says he and Sudan’s president have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan President... Read more
South Africa ruminates on impact of white rule
Africa April 13, 2013
(AP) — Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now laments the crime and inequality that plague the nation two decades after it cast off racist white rule. “We can’t pretend we have remained... Read more
(AP) — A suicide bombing by Islamic militants has killed at least three Chad soldiers and injured civilians at a market, officials and a humanitarian worker said Friday. Lalla Maiga, a humanitarian worker in Kidal, said that two suicide bombers were also killed in the attack. She said the... Read more
Mayor accused of drug trafficking arrested in Mali
Africa April 12, 2013
(AP) — Authorities have arrested a mayor in northeastern Mali on drug trafficking charges three years after a plane full of cocaine landed near his town, officials said Thursday. Baba Ould Cheick was taken into custody Wednesday morning, according to Alassane S. Toure, who headed the operation. “We asked... Read more
EU contingent trains Malian soldiers
Africa April 12, 2013
(AP) — In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this West African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. On a recent day, small groups of... Read more
(AP) — The leader of the Islamic extremist network Boko Haram apparently has refused to take part in any possible amnesty deal offered by Nigeria’s government to stop the guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings now plaguing the country. An audio recording obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday... Read more
