How Nigerian Politician, Ike Ekweremadu And Wife Were Jailed For Organ Trafficking
After bringing a man to the UK from Lagos, a wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife, and his "middleman" were convicted for an organ-trafficking plan. The Old Bailey heard that Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted a replacement kidney for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia. The two, together with Dr. Obinna Obeta, 50, had previously been convicted of conspiring...
Sudan Rivals Unwilling To End Fight – UN
The UN's top aid official has warned that the "will to end the fight still was not there" after speaking to Sudan's rival military leaders. Martin Griffiths told the BBC that Sudan's descent into violence was now at a dangerous tipping point. He called for security guarantees from the warring sides to allow humanitarian aid into the country. The UN warns that...
Man Arrested Outside Buckingham Palace
A man was arrested outside Buckingham Palace after throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into Palace grounds, police have said. A cordon was erected and a controlled explosion was carried out following the incident, which unfolded at around 19:00 BST on Tuesday. The man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. There are no reports of any injuries. The incident is...
Labour Minister Shot Dead At Home By Own Bodyguard
Uganda’s State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Col (rtd) Charles Okello Engola, was shot dead Tuesday morning at his home in a Kampala suburb. The minister’s aide-de-camp Ronald Otim also sustained severe injuries and was rushed to Mulago Hospital for treatment. “He (Engola) was shot at his residence in Kyanja by one of his bodyguards who allegedly fired several...
Bus Conveying Stranded Nigerians From Sudan Catches Fire
One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia caught fire in the early hours of Monday. Twenty-six buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12:am on Monday for Port Sudan. “One of the buses conveying some 50 Nigerian students from Sudan with a tag number...
Kenya Commences Autopsies On Bodies Of Cult Followers Who Allegedly Starved To Death
Forensic experts in Kenya on Monday commenced autopsies of over hundred corpses exhumed from mass graves linked to a pastor alleged to have mandated his members to starve to death to see Jesus. “Officially the process of post-mortem of the bodies starts immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside a hospital morgue in the coastal town of Malindi. “We are...
Ding Liren Becomes China’s First Male World Chess Champion
Ding Liren has become China's first men's world chess champion, after defeating Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. Ding, 30, won a rapid-play tiebreaker after 14 first-stage games at the World Chess Championship in Kazakhstan. He succeeds Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the five-time champion who said he was "not motivated" to defend his title. Carlsen accused a US opponent of cheating last year in a row that...
Ecuador Labels Criminal Gangs As Terrorists
Ecuador declared members of organized crime groups terrorists on Thursday, allowing the military to pursue them with greater freedom. In a meeting presided over by President Guillermo Lasso, the Public and State Security Council decided to take action. “We are currently experiencing an indiscriminate attack by organized crime, which has seen us as a weak country,” Security Secretary Wagner Bravo said. He...
11 Dead After Indonesia Boat Capsizes
A passenger boat carrying dozens of people capsized in western Indonesia, killing eleven people, an official reported on Friday. After the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, rescuers found 62 survivors and mostly found the bodies of women and children, according to a statement from the local search and rescue agency official Kukuh Widodo. “The capsized...
US To Open New Migrants Processing Centres In Colombia And Guatemala
The US has announced plans to open new migrant processing centres in Colombia and Guatemala as part of efforts to reduce undocumented immigration. The regional facilities will process thousands of claims a month, with pathways for legal migration expanded. The number of deportations for those ineligible to be in the US will also be doubled or tripled. The US is bracing for...
