Reason Why Osama Bin Laden’s Family Was Killed In Private Jet Crash In The UK Revealed
Three members of Osama bin Laden’s family were killed in a private jet crash when their pilot avoided a microlight and then landed too far down the runway.The £7million private jet also issued six warning alerts before it plunged into a car auction site in Hampshire on Friday, an initial report has found. Relatives of […]
Oiling the Wheels of Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Drive
The new head of Nigeria’s state oil firm has fired eight senior managers. His success or failure in turning around the wasteful oil sector could be a test of the resilience of President Buhari’s anti-corruption drive. It seems that Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a former executive of Exxon Mobil and now head of the Nigerian National […]
Namibian Cabinet Tightens Screws On Fugitives
Government is busy tightening the legal screws to ensure Namibia is no longer a safe haven for international fugitives fleeing justice in their own countries. The Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Tjekero Tweya, said this on Tuesday when he held a briefing on cabinet decisions. He announced that Cabinet had approved an action plan […]
Namibia Sees Slow Start With Poll Registrations
The Electoral Commission of Namibia’s supplementary registration kicked off yesterday, however with a few technical hiccups and lack of enthusiasm experienced at registration points. The registration will end on 22 August. The supplementary registration gives room for people who have moved or lost their cards or have turned 18 to register and partake in the […]
African Governance Architecture Is Ready to Be Implemented
President of the Constitutional Council Mourad Medelci said that the African governance architecture is “ready to be implemented” after the working groups’ meeting on “the constitutionalism and rule of law” and “human rights and transitional justice” whose works wrapped up Wednesday in Algiers. The African governance architecture “has today a working programme and an elected […]
Muhammadu Buhari Sacks Oil Board Boss, Appoints Replacement
The ongoing effort by President Muhammadu Buhari to flush out corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has claimed a major casualty in the person of the corporation’s group managing director (GMD), Dr. Joseph Thlama Dawha. The president yesterday sacked Dahwa and appointed Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the new GMD of the NNPC. […]
Algeria’s Support to Sahrawi People’s Struggle Is Based On Principles of Its Foreign Policy
The Speaker of the People’s National Assembly Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa affirmed Sunday, in Algiers, that Algeria’s support to the struggle of the Sahrawi people “is based on the unchanging principles of its foreign policy.” In an audience granted to a delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), led by the governor of Laayoune […]
Reports from Western Sahara make clear Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations
Reports from Western Sahara make clear that Moroccan authorities continue to commit serious human rights violations against the Sahrawi people, said RFK Center for Human Rights. According to an article posted on its site, in its latest report on human rights violations in Western Sahara between January and June 2015, RFK Center said “reports from […]
Zimbabwe strongly condemns Morocco for causing untold suffering among millions of Saharawi people
Zanu-PF has strongly condemned Morocco for causing untold suffering among millions of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic nationals whose country it is illegally occupying. Speaking at a meeting with SADR ambassador Mr Mohamed Cheij Saleh Ali yesterday, the party’s secretary for youth Cde Pupurai Togarepi said Morocco was violating the rights of the people in the […]
Morocco Should Lift Bureaucratic Obstacles – Harassment of Outspoken Journalist
Moroccan authorities should lift bureaucratic obstacles that have prevented an outspoken journalist and satirist, Ali Lmrabet, from publishing a new publication, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. On June 24, Lmrabet went on a hunger strike in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva to protest the refusal by the local administration […]
