By Nangayi Guyson – Mogadishu – Somali government troops and allied forces has retaken the southeastern town of Bulo Hawo near the Kenyan border after defeating Al-Qaeda-inspired Shabaab Islamists on Sunday , officials and witnesses said. A number of residents said government troops and fighters from the Sufi sect Ahlu Sunna dislodged the Shabaab in a battle lasting about an hour. “The fighting stopped after one hour and the Shabaab fighters were defeated,” said Bulo Hawo resident Ali Moalim Yasin. “I saw six dead bodies, all of them combatants.” The Ahlu Sunna was founded in 1991 to promote moderate Sufi... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – At least 43 people have been killed by floods after heavy rains in West African nation of Benin. The United Nations’s humanitarian agency said. A statement released on Saturday by the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs says flood waters now cover two-thirds of the country’s territory. Unseasonably heavy rains have caused the Oueme and Mono rivers to overflow, leaving nearly 100 000 people homeless. More than 800 cases of cholera have been reported so far. Aid workers fear the spread of a cholera epidemic in the wake of the floods. The bacterial... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – The National Water and Electricity Company, NAWEC, has expressed its resolve to reduce, by this week, the frequent electricity load-shedding that the country has been experiencing in recent times. Baba Fatajo Director of Generation at NAWEC announced this at a press conference held at the Kotu Power Station on Saturday. The briefing came on the heels of a series of power cuts, experienced for the past two months, which has thrown people within and outside the Greater Banjul Area into darkness. Briefing journalists on the current situation, Fatajo said due to a serious fire outbreak that... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – The Temple of Justice in Liberia through Criminal Court “B” has sentenced two foreign residents to death by hanging after being convicted for Murder. The two Chinese Nationals, Meng Wang and Li Ma were convicted for brutally murdering a South African, Wesley Craig Demas on September 6 of 2009. Giving the final judgment on Thursday evening, October 14, 2010 after denying a motion for a retrial filed by the defense, Judge Blamo Dixon told the Court that the convicts are subject to deportation under escort to their country of origin within a reasonable period of... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – Gambian-born Anna Gardner (nee Grey-Johnson) has been nominated by the Law Society of Great Britain for the prestigious and highly coveted award of Solicitor of the Year. Ms Gardner, according to a statement from the Law Society in the UK, has been short-listed for the Law Society’s Excellence Awards in the category of “Solicitor of the Year 2010”. BBC Broadcaster Mishal Husain will present the awards at a prestigious black tie dinner and presentation ceremony which will take place on October 21st at Old Billingsgate, London. The awards reward the most outstanding practitioners in the legal... Continue Reading
