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BY Unknown Wednesday, January 03, 2018 0

Coup attempt ‘foiled’ in Equatorial Guinea

Coup attempt ‘foiled’ in Equatorial Guinea


The authorities in Equatorial Guinea say they thwarted an attempted coup in late December.
At least 30 armed men were arrested recently in Cameroon, near the border with Equatorial Guinea.
Security Minister Nicholas Obama Nchama said radical opposition parties had recruited mercenaries to overthrow the government of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has been in power for nearly 40 years.
He said the coup attempt had been foiled with the help of the Cameroonian security services.
The alleged mercenaries – from Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic (CAR) – were found with rocket launchers, rifles and large amounts of ammunition.
Mr Obiang’s government is often accused of corruption and human rights abuses.
An infamous failed coup attempt was led 14 years ago by former British soldier Simon Mann.
The former commando and businessman was arrested in Zimbabwe in 2004 and extradited four years later to Equatorial Guinea, where he was sentenced to 34 years in prison.
One year later he was released after being pardoned by Mr Obiang.
Source: bbc.com/news
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BY Unknown Monday, December 04, 2017 0

Kenya police detain senior opposition official David Ndii Crackdown follows disputed elections

Police have arrested one of Kenya’smost prominent economists as part of a crackdown against the opposition following disputed elections, opposition officials and activists said. 
David Ndii, a senior adviser to the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa), was detained on Sunday evening at a resort on the Kenyan coast and taken to Nairobi, the opposition said. Police confirmed the arrest but gave no further details. 
Dennis Onyango, an opposition spokesman, said he expected the arrest to be “the start of a bigger crackdown”.
“All the signs suggest we’re going back to the Moi era when if you differed [from the government] you got arrested,” he said, referring to the autocratic rule of former president Danial arap Moi. “What worries us is the conduct of the police. They’re behaving like kidnappers, just running around.”
Kenya was plunged into its deepest crisis in a decade following a disputed election in August and an opposition boycott of a repeat presidential vote in October. 
Raila Odinga, the veteran opposition leader, has refused to accept President Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in the October 26 rerun. Mr Kenyatta was inaugurated last week, but Mr Odinga has launched a so-called national resistance movement in a bid to force a fresh vote. 
The authorities have responded with force to counter opposition attempts to hold protests and rallies, using tear gas and live ammunition to target Mr Odinga’s convoy and his supporters. 
About a dozen people have been killed in clashes between the police and opposition supporters in the last month. More than 70 people have died in politically-related violence since the August vote. 
John Githongo, a former government anti-corruption chief and a pro-democracy activist, described Mr Ndii’s arrest as “really sinister”. 
“It’s not only what is done but how it’s done,” he said. “It’s being done in a way that harks back to one of the worst moments in Kenya’s history, the 1990s, when people were disappeared after being arrested.” 
Mwende Gatabaki, Mr Ndii’s wife, said on Monday the officers who arrested her husband refused to tell her what crime he had committed. She was briefly detained when she went to the nearest police station to look for him.
Opposition lawyers said they expected Mr Ndii to appear in court on Monday facing charges of incitement. The economist was last week appointed to head the organising committee of the resistance movement’s so-called people’s assembly.
The committee was expected to present its findings by December 12, when the opposition alliance is due to swear in Mr Odinga as the “people’s president”. The opposition has yet to clarify what this will entail. 
Mr Ndii has been one of the more prominent figures to discuss the possibility of areas loyal to Mr Odinga in western Kenya seceding from the rest of the east African nation. Mr Odinga opposes secession.
Kenya’s crisis began when the supreme court nullified the result of the August presidential election, citing “illegalities” and “irregularities” in the vote tallying, and ordered a repeat poll. Mr Odinga withdrew from the second vote, claiming the electoral commission had not been sufficiently reformed to ensure a fair vote. 
He urged his supporters not to vote and Mr Kenyatta was re-elected with 98.3 per cent of the vote, on a turnout of 39 per cent. 
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BY Unknown Monday, December 04, 2017 0

Buhari blames Europe for illegal migration

Buhari blames Europe for illegal migration
  • Expresses worry over delay in repatration of stolen funds

President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed European countries for human trafficing scourge across the world, especially as it affects Africa.
He also expressed disappointment with western countries over delay, or outright refusal, to repatriate more stolen funds stashed in their countries, by ex-Nigerian government officials.
Reports from sources at the just-concluded fifth African Union/European Union Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire indicate that the president said for there to be a halt to human trafficking as well as curb the deaths of desperate migrants as its currently being seen in Libya, the EU must work more diligently with the African AU, to bring normalcy to Libya and for the EU to be more forthcoming with humanitarian aid and other forms of assistance to countries directly affected by the menace and by terrorism.
At the bilateral meeting with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, where the issue of stemming the tide of illegal migration of Nigerians to Europe took the front burner, Buhari said a process has been put in motion for the negotiation of new agreements that may open doors of migration and also lead to reducing illegal migration.
Under this agreement, according to one of the sources, close to 4,000 Nigerians may be given scholarships as well as skills and vocational training for illegal migrants before they are brought back home.
The president further declared that the single most important investment needed for growth in Nigeria and Africa is to grow and develop the economies in ways that will provide jobs for the youths. 
“Without jobs, even educated youths become vulnerable to forms of extremism, ranging from joining the ranks of terrorists to risking their lives, migrating to Europe, through the ‘sea of sand that is the Sahara and the unforgiving waters of the mediterranean.’ We must declare this era of African industrialisation for this must be the primary goal of all AU members,” he stated and advised that future AU-EU summits must be dedicated to this goal until it is achieved.
On stolen funds trapped in Europe, Buhari expressed displeasure over delay in seding them back to Nigeria.
He reiterated that the funds will go a long way in assisting the country build the much-needed infrastructure and create jobs for youth, as well as discourage those embarking on risky journeys through the Sahara Desert and mediterranean, enroute Europe. 
The president, said sources privy to what transpired at the bilateral meetings with some western leaders on the sidelines of the summit, disclosed that he was particularly unhappy that African countries are being blamed for illegal migrants taking dangerous routes to Europe.
In 2016, in New York, on the margins of United Nations General Assembly, Buhari asked Switzerland to urgently release Nigeria’s stolen funds.
He had, at a meeting with his Swiss counterpart, Johann Schneider-Ammann, said Nigeria needed such resources, particularly for infrastructure.
The president had, in response to former United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron describing Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country, said he did not want an apology but repatriation of looted funds.
Meanwhile, a group of women, under the aegis of Africa Faith and Justice Network Nigeria, has called on traditional rulers in Edo State to intensify campaign against dangers and risks associated with trafficking in persons in their quarters.       
 The group, a non governmental organisation founded on the principle of social justice, made up of Catholic women, equally tasked the youths to take advantage of their God-given talents and acquire the necessary skill for self-empowerment.
Coordinator of the group, Rev. Sister Eucharia Madueke gave these charges when they visited the palace of Onogie of Ujeogba, Izuware 1, Solomon Ogieaga, Esan West Local Government Area, Odionware of Ugbogui, Pa.Uwaifo Osemwengie, Ovia North East and Zaiki Ehizogie 11, the  Onogie of Ogwa 
She said the group decided to embark on the second round of the campaign following statistics which indicated that 95 percent of Nigerians trafficked to Italy are from Edo. They urged the monarchs to use their traditional authority to clamp down on agents, individual, brothels who indulge in trafficking of under-age girls in their various communities, and added that the law will, henceforth, takes its course on those found guilty of rape and human abuses 
Also, a resource person on Anti-Human Trafficking, Women and Children Protection Unit, State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Sergeant, Justina Idiata  said the police have made several arrests of chains of suspected persons including native doctors, parents, relations who played a role in the process of trafficking under-aged girls who often end up as sex slaves abroad.  She said the traffickers often lure parents with gifts,  money, to deceive their girl-child they are traveling abroad for genuine reasons.     
In his response, Onogie of Ujeogba blamed the rise in human trafficking on parental failure and called on government to provide dividends of democracy and create enabling environment for citizens.
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BY Unknown Thursday, November 30, 2017 0

How Obama Caused The Slavery Trade In Libya Today


Reno Omokri, a former media to ex President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has blamed former President Barack Obama for the crisis in Libya which has culminated in the slave trade practice.
Reno Omokri reacts to the situation of slavery in Libya where sub-saharan Africans attempting to cross into Europe from Libya are sold into slavery.
He laid blames at the door steps of the United States of America due to its interventionist policies.
His post:
”When Gaddafi was in power, there was no slave trade of Black Africans in Libya. As a matter of fact Gaddafi gave financial aid to Black African nations and almost single handedly funded the fight against White minority rule in the then Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe) and against apartheid in South Africa (Google it. Even Mandela said so openly in America). Barack Obama staged his removal and now Black Africans are being sold in Libya and you think Obama is good and Gaddafi was bad? All over Africa, from Libya, to Egypt, to Nigeria, Obama intervened without caring what Africans really wanted and saddled us with incompetent regimes that are taking Africans backward. History will not be kind to Obama!”
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