Nigerian police say two suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of a Christian student accused of blaspheming against Islam. The young woman was attacked by Muslim students at her college in the city of Sokoto, who killed her and set her body alight. Religious and political leaders in northern Nigeria have appealed…
French photojournalist Camille Lepage, 26, was killed while covering the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic Monday May 12, 2014. 8 years after the death of French journalist Camille Lepage, NGO Reporters without borders denounced on Wednesday investigations that made no headway. The Central African Republic and France opened investigations following the killing in…
A man has been found guilty of murdering a retired East London police officer. The retired police officer was shot dead during a robbery. Two other gunmen are still at large. A man has been convicted of murdering a retired Eastern Cape police officer during a house robbery a year ago. On Tuesday, the Eastern…
Summary It was the first major air catastrophe reported in Cameroon since 2007, when a Kenya Airways plane carrying 114 people crashed after take-off from Douala Airport. There were no survivors in that accident. Three years later, an investigation by Cameroon’s civil aviation authority concluded that the crash was due to pilot error. Since then,…
Summary Head of mission Nicholas Haysom said UNMISS will step up its efforts in tackling conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan. “UNMISS already supports efforts to promote protection, rule of law and accountability, through the rapid deployment of temporary operating bases, support to mobile courts, and by delivering specialised training on the prevention of sexual…
The authorities in Burkina Faso say rescue teams which have been pumping water from a flooded zinc mine are drawing closer to where they’re hoping to find eight workers who’ve been trapped for more than three weeks. The six Burkina Faso nationals, one Tanzanian and one Zambian went missing on 16 April after heavy rainfall…
Ghana’s consumer price inflation rate has hit 23.6%, a sharp rise from 19.4% in March. The latest figures announced by Government Statistician Kobina Annim on Wednesday show that prices for imported items increased faster than locally produced items – the first time in over two years. The rise in the cost of food and services…
A network of Nigerian separatists based outside the country is using social media to call for violence and incite ethnic hatred against opponents of Biafran independence, a BBC investigation has found. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence In a Facebook live broadcast to her more than 40,000 followers, Efe Uwanogho, also known as…
In Guinea, the National Council of the Rally for Development, CNRD, has announced a transition period to civilian rule of three years or 36 months. The decision, announced on Wednesday, places the country at odds with regional partners and the UN who have both called for a much shorter transition period. The head of the…
The Supreme Military Court in RDC has sentenced police colonel Christian Kenga Kenga to death for the killing of two human rights activists, Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana. The court named Colonel Kenga Kenga, commander of the Simba batallion,as the coordinator of the operation that took place on the 1st of June 2010. According to…