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(Ben Quinn , Guardian. 2 April 2013) – Claims over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Review of Books Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister was abducted and killed in a cold war operation run by British intelligence, according to remarks said to have been […]
Zambia Arrests Former President Over Nigeria Oil Deal (MICHAEL EBOH, Vanguard 25/3/13) – Former Zambian president, Mr. Rupiah Banda, was Monday arrested by the country’s law enforcement agents over allegations of corruption and abuse of office, following a crude oil import deal with Nigeria. Banda was also alleged to have […]
Since this morning, the police and other security forces are screening all paths to the supreme court in order to deter opposition members going to pledge support to the political prisoner Madame Victoire Ingabire as her hearing opens today. Mr. Sylvain Sibomana, FDU-Inkingi interim secretary general and other members have […]
Rebels in the Central African Republic have taken the capital, Bangui, after President Francois Bozize fled. (BBC, 2013/03/24) – Witnesses reported gunfire as the Seleka rebel coalition took the presidential palace, followed by chaos and looting in the city centre. Mr Bozize arrived with his family in the Democratic Republic […]
(From American Secret Documents – Part 1) – [Download Doc PDF format] – Early in the morning of 1 July 1967, Nigeria’s young head of state, Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was feeling uneasy in his office at the Supreme Headquarters, Dodan Barracks in Lagos. The unease was a result of his […]
Armed men have seized an oil tanker off Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, officials say. The Panamanian-flagged vessel, ITRI, was attacked on Wednesday as it prepared to deposit 5,000 tons of oil, officials said, releasing the information for the first time. Pirate attacks have sharply increased in recent years off […]
Ivory Coast’s former youth minister and ally of ex-President Laurent Gbagbo, Charles Ble Goude, has been charged with war crimes, murder and theft of public funds. Last week Mr Ble Goude was extradited to Ivory Coast from Ghana. Mr Ble Goude denies leading pro-Gbagbo militias who attacked foreigners and northerners […]
(CNN) — Members of the president’s party in Tunisia will quit the coalition government, the state-run news agency TAP reported Sunday. The move threatens to worsen a political crisis, set off after an opposition leader was assassinated there last week. The Congress for the Republic Party, which counts Tunisian President Moncef […]
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