Sunday, May 26th
Last update01:23:55 PM GMT
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for an urgent and peaceful resolution based on dialogue in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Crisis in the eastern part of the country has uprooted over 300,000 civilians since earlier this year.
South African entrepreneur Ivor Ichikowitz has said Africa needs engineers as much as doctors to stop people dying needlessly.
The industrialist holds that so many more people will survive if sanitation is made more effective, clean water better transported and other projects better maintained.
The importance of engineers to Africa should be put on a par with medical staff, he said.
Amnesty International has asked South African government to clarify the powers and ability of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the deaths of 44 people near Lonmin’s Marikana mine in August.
The Commission of Inquiry is chaired by Justice Ian Farlam.
A plan by the Delta State Government in Nigeria to ban commercial motorcycles popularly known as okada in major cities of the State is “mischievous and not in the interest of the masses,” a human rights activist has said.
Cyril Ojiemen, a Lawyer and Human Rights Activist said the move is against the economic rights of the riders and will deprive them of their means of livelihood.
Cocaine worth about £200,000 which had been hidden in lollipops has been seized in Ghana.
The drugs, which were en route to Europe, were detected by the Ghanaian authorities working with UK Border Force’s Operation Westbridge team and the Serious Organised Crime Agency on 11th September 2012 at Accra Airport.
