Yearly Archives: 2013
Taliban invited to negotiating table
Persistent and unrelenting violent terrorist attacks that have seen the nation’s death toll approach 1,000 since May’s general election have prompted Pakistan’s government to...
Bus rape gang guilty of murder
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Four men have been found guilty of the murder of the 23-year-old medical student they violently raped on a Delhi bus and left for...
Tunisian anti-government protests intensify
Protesters swelled the streets of Tunis on Saturday (September 7) as tens of thousands turned out to renew demands that the Islamist-led government step...
First victory for Africa at US Open
Africa is celebrating its first ever winner at the US tennis Open as South African Lucas Sithole defeated world number one David Wagner in...
Ruto trial opens in The Hague
The trial of Kenya’s deputy-president, William Ruto, opened this week at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Ruto, along with former radio...
Visa bonds: is no news good news? Government silent over proposed pilot scheme
Britain’s ambassador to Nigeria has again said that the visa bond scheme proposed by the Home Office will affect only a tiny proportion of...
UK launches action plan for companies to integrate human rights practices
The UK launched its action plan on business and human rights, becoming the first country to set out guidance to companies on integrating human...
Transnational organised crime on the rise in Eastern Africa, warns UN report
The latest report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) provides insight into some of Eastern Africa’s principal transnational organised crime...
Two arrested in UK over Abacha loot
The last is yet to be heard about looted funds traced to ex- Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, as £20m(N5.12billion) laundered through some...
Biofuel company funded by UK is leaving parts of Africa starved
Thousands of people in one of Africa’s poorest countries are going hungry because of a biofuels “land grab” by a firm that receives funding...
