By Own Correspondent – ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – The Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels on Tuesday issued a statement claiming they had killed more than 200 soldiers in military operations it had conducted since the beginning of October According to the statement , listing all the purported attacks with dates and locations, the rebels claim to have conducted 34 tactical and strategic military operations, killing 267 Ethiopian army soldiers and wounding 157 but the government spokesman Bereket Simon dismissed the emailed ONLF statement saying there was no significant fire on the ground than can be validated apart from... Continue Reading
By Justin Oliver Zinda – The British National Party (BNP)’s leader, Nick Griffin, with 2 other members of his party appeared in court on 8th November 2010 accused of lying over the BNP’s constitution. They are facing charges pressed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which says the BNP is refusing to obey orders to remove a ‘non-white’ clause. The Equality and Human Rights watchdog, acting for the Commission, is claiming that the BNP’s constitution is potentially discriminatory. Mr Walker – a BNP Staff Manager, however, seems to believe that the BNP has already altered its constitution to allow... Continue Reading
Source ICTR: On 8 November 2010 the Prosecution and the Defence presented their closing arguments in the trial of Jean-Baptiste Gatete, former Mayor of Murambi Commune in Byumba prefecture and later Director in the Women and Family Affairs Ministry. The accused is charged with six counts including Genocide, or, in the alternative, complicity in genocide; conspiracy to commit genocide; and the crimes against humanity of extermination, murder and rape. The Prosecution called for the conviction of Gatete, and imposition of a life sentence following what it argued was, strong evidence presented against him. Senior Trial Attorney, Drew White (Canada) told... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – A senior operative of the National Intelligent Agency and two others were last Friday arraigned at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court before Principal Magistrate Emmanuel Nkea charged with conspiracy and unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous harm. The accused persons, Lamin Darboe, a senior NIA operative, Alagie Edrissa Jobe, former head of the Special Operation Unit at the NIA, and Ebrima Drammeh, National Drug Enforcement Agency Commissioner for Kanifing Division, all denied the charges. The charge sheet on count one stated that the three accused persons sometime in May 2009 at the NIA head office in... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – The criminal trial for assault against Pa Jallow, the opposition United Democratic Party National Assembly member for Jarra Central, continued yesterday at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Fredrick Forster. Jallow was alleged to have assaulted one Isatou Marenah, a police officer, by slapping her while in the due execution of her duties on 13th October 2010 at Nusrat Junction in the Kanifing Municipality, a charge he denied. Testifying under cross-examination, officer Marenah told the court that the accused, Pa Jallow, used his right hand to slap her on her right cheek. When counsel Badou Conteh... Continue Reading
