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Burkina Faso: Compaore sentenced to life for Sankara assassination

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– – A military tribunal in Burkina Faso has sentenced to life in prison former President Blaise Compaore for his role in the murder of former leader Thomas Sankara. The pan-African leader was assassinated over three decades but it is only now that a trial is taking place to reveal the facts. Compaore was tried and sentenced though in absentia… Read More
Europe 

Justice and reparations still critical, 30 years on from Sarajevo siege

Village Reporter
The siege began after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in the wake of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia.  Bosnian Serbs largely opposed independence, while the other two large ethnic groups, Muslim Bosniaks and Croats, favoured the split from Belgrade.  Bosnian Serb troops started bombarding the capital city in April 1992, a sustained assault which lasted for nearly four years. … Read More
Europe 

UN humanitarian aid convoy reaches Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine

Village Reporter
Infrastructure damage from shelling has left thousands of people in residential buildings across eastern Ukraine without electricity or gas for cooking and heating homes, or adequate access to clean water, which has been cut since the end of March. While millions of people have fled #Ukraine, some of the most vulnerable people remain there. While safety is their first concern,… Read More
Africa Business Featured World 

Why the AU is pushing for an African credit rating agency

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– – There is an urge and surge from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), an organization under the African Union to work towards establishing an African-owned credit rating agency by the end of this year. The need for such African Credit Rating Agency followed complaints from some African countries that credit rating agencies from the West aren’t being fair… Read More
Europe 

Ukraine’s President calls on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’ itself

Village Reporter
“We are dealing with a State that is turning the veto of the United Nations Security Council into the right to die”, President Zelynskyy warned.  If it continues, countries will rely not on international law or global institutions to ensure security, but rather, on the power of their own arms. I regret the divisions that have prevented the Security Council from… Read More
Africa Featured Nigeria News and Headlines World 

Nigerian atheist jailed 24 years for blasphemy

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– – A Nigerian court on Tuesday sentenced Mubarak Bala, an atheist, to 24 years in prison for blasphemy. “This court hereby sentences Muhammad Mubarak Bala to 24 years … This will take into consideration the time he served awaiting trial,” said Judge Faruk Lawan in Kano, Nigeria. Bala, a former Muslim and the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria,… Read More
Africa Business Nigeria News and Headlines World 

Dangote’s oil refinery to begin production in last quarter of 2022

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– – Dangote’s oil refinery plant will begin production by the fourth quarter of 2022, Group Executive Devakumar Edwin has said. The 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) plant is being built in Nigeria was to become operational by 2019 but that deadline delayed. In 2018 when it was projected that the plant will only become operational in 2022, Edwin rejected… Read More
Africa East Africa World 

Ethiopia: Reports of ethnic cleansing in western Tigray zone

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– – Amhara regional security forces and civilian authorities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone are alleged to have committed widespread abuses against Tigrayans since November 2020. In a report released on Wednesday, two human rights groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said the abuses amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Ethiopian authorities have severely restricted access and… Read More
OP-ED Russia 

RUSSIA: THE LATEST VICTIM TO READYMADE MEDIA WAR PROPAGANDA

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By Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh President Vladimir Putin of Russia: “People in some countries protest against me and call me killer, but they don’t see that I am at war with Nazis. I don’t rebuke those who are against me today, because people are not guilty. Some media has been able to trick people with their lies and provoke them against… Read More
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