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Nigeria: Patients stranded as strike by doctors disrupts health services

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– – Hundreds of patients have been stranded in Nigerian hospitals as a result of an indefinite strike by doctors. The strike follows an ultimatum issued by National Association of Resident Doctors to the federal government to improve wages and allowances of doctors. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, the head of the association has hinted that they will lay down their tools if their demands… Read More
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Nigerian Air Force says missing jet may ‘have crashed’

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– – The Nigerian Air Force command on Friday said its alpha jet that went missing on Wednesday may have crashed. The spokesperson of the Air Force, Edward Gabkwet in a statement revealed that the “Intelligence report gathered by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) indicates that the Alpha Jet aircraft (NAF475) that went off the radar with 2 crew members… Read More
Europe 

End police brutality and impunity in Belarus, rights experts urge

Village Reporter
Last week, 176 people were detained during peaceful protests commemorating Freedom Day on 25 March, an unofficial holiday, they reported, and seven journalists were among more than 240 people apprehended days later.  Mass protests and demonstrations have continued since last August’s disputed presidential election returned Alexander Lukashenko to power. Last week, the Human Rights Council passed a resolution condemning abuses… Read More
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Liberia: Curfew after prisoners broke jail amid violent protests

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– – Liberia has imposed a night curfew on the coastal county of Maryland effective Thursday April 1, amid the breaking of jail by some prisoners. The Maryland county has experienced several days of violent demonstrations by mostly female protesters. On Tuesday during one of these violent protests, more than 90 inmates broke jail, escaping in Harper city in the… Read More
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ICC upholds acquittal of ex-Ivorian president Gbagbo

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Gbagbo’s trial started in January 2016, but three years later judges said they had found that prosecutors had “failed to satisfy the burden of proof to the requisite standard.” It was one of the ICC’s biggest failures since it was set up in 2002 as the world’s only permanent war crimes court. Prosecutors then appealed, focusing on what they said… Read More
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Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie blames feminism for domestic violence

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– – Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, has blamed feminism for the increasing cases of domestic violence women suffer in marriage. Speaking to BBC Igbo, the actor said women are at fault in most of the incidents of domestic violence. He lamented that today’s women do not know how to do basic things which women ought to know how to do to… Read More
Pacific 

UN agencies ramp up response for Rohingya refugees in wake of ‘unprecedented’ fire

Village Reporter
The blaze destroyed about 9,500 shelters and also reduced to ashes over 1,600 vital facilities, including hospitals, schools, and food and aid distribution centres. As of Tuesday, at least 11 people are confirmed to have perished in the fire and over 300 are still missing.   In the aftermath of last week’s fire, IOM Mental Health & Psychosocial Support teams… Read More
Pacific 

Protect all those fleeing Myanmar, UN offices urge regional countries

Village Reporter
In addition to the political strife across the country, renewed fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed organizations in some border areas, including airstrikes in Kayin province, are driving people to flee within the country and across borders.  The people being forced to flee from #Myanmar should be given sanctuary in neighboring countries.They must not be returned to a place… Read More
Pacific 

Indonesia: UN experts denounce mega tourism project that ‘tramples on human rights’

Village Reporter
In a joint statement led by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the experts highlighted expulsions of local communities and destruction of houses, fields, water sources, cultural and religious sites, as the Indonesian Government and the country’s Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) “groomed Mandalika to become a ‘New Bali’.”  Farmers and fisher folks have been… Read More
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