Nigeria to recoup $321-million looted by Sani Abacha in the U.S.
Nigeria’s Attorney General and Justice Minister Abubaker Malami is on a three-day visit to Washington where he’ll sign an agreement to repatriate $321 million dollar looted by former military leader Sani Abacha. The money will be used for infrastructure projects in Nigeria. Abubaker Malami will sign agreements with the Island of New Jersey and the […]
Malawi’s Presidential election annulled by court finding “widespread irregularities”
Malawi’s Constitutonal Court has annulled last May’s Presidential election and ruled that a new poll must take place within 150 days. President Peter Mutharika will stay in power until then. The Constitutional Court found there had been widespread irregularities in Malawi’s Presidential election last year. Peter Mutharika won a second term in that poll with […]
Kenya’s former President Daniel Arap Moi dies, aged 95
Daniel Arap Moi, who has died aged 95, was President of Kenya for 24 years. He led that central African country into multiparty elections and won two of them. Daniel Arap Moi was known as Nyayo, which is the Swahili word for footsteps because he maintained he followed in the path of Kenya’s first president […]
At least 14 crushed to death in Kenyan primary school
At least 14 primary schoolchildren were crushed to death in a stampede as they left classes for the day. Another 40 were injured, some of them critically. It is not clear what caused the stampede as pupils left the Kakamega primary school north west of Nairobi yesterday. Authorities are investigating reports that they jammed into […]