Lagos – Gunmen in Nigeria seized four officers of an agency responsible for combating counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the southern state of Abia, plagued with kidnappings, an official said on Friday. The four were in neighbouring Imo state visiting the family of one of their colleagues killed at the weekend for suspected work-related motives, Jimoh Abubakar, [...]
Politics will be seen as dirty if government officials continue to be corrupt, Congress of SA Trade Union general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said during an anti-corruption march in Durban on Friday. “As long as there is a corrupt minority, a perception will be made by people that politics have become dirty. We need to act [...]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African police say they have found nearly 3 tons (2.49 metric tons) of commercial explosives in a Johannesburg house. Authorities say an 18-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man were arrested during Friday’s raid. Police also were hunting for a third suspect. Police believe the explosives hidden in a bathroom in [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — Church leaders in Kenya are vowing to scuttle a decades-long quest for a more democratic constitution over the issue of abortion, and American groups on both sides are weighing in on the debate. Abortions are illegal in Kenya under current law, but hundreds of thousands of women still seek them each year. [...]
Following the removal of Prof. Maurice Iwu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, some senators have called on the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to ensure the careful selection of a credible Nigerian as his replacement. Senator Jibril Aminu said the incoming Chairman of INEC should not be a controversial person, but one [...]
LAGOS, Nigeria — A militant group claimed Friday to have attacked an oil pipeline in Nigeria that is operated by a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which said no such assault took place. A statement sent by a group calling itself the Joint Revolutionary Council of the Niger Delta said it carried out the [...]
The Ethiopian police on Thursday detained 11 opposition party members after a dispute between the Unity for Democracy and Justice-Andinet (UDJ) party members and a splinter group of the same party. The dispute occurred after members of the splinter group tried to take over the headquarters of one of the UDJ. Eyewitnesses told APA that [...]
Hundreds of defrauded investors in the war ravaged region of Darfur staged protests after losing large sums of money in what appeared to be a Ponzi scheme ran by a few people. Local media said that the police used tear gas to break up the demonstrations which took place in North Darfur capital city of [...]
There an urgent need for a new strategy to protect civilians from atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), operating in Southern Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African republic, a think-thank said on Wednesday. Troops from Uganda, Southern Sudan and Democratic republic of Congo fought the LRA rebels from December 2008 to [...]
At least 10 people have been killed and over 20 others injured in heavy clashes between al-Shabab fighters and pro-government Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama militiamen in central Somali regions of Galgadud and Hiran. The fighting broke out on Thursday in the central Somali village of El Bahay, 80 km north of Guriel, in Galgadud region. [...]
