By Dayo Emmanuel – Two former interns at The Nation Newspapers, Tosin Makinde and Adenike Ashogbon have won the 2009 Nigeria Young Journalist Award. Fisayo Soyombo, a graduate of Animal Science of the University of Ibadan also won the Campus Journalist of the Year inaugural category of the award presented on Friday, August 27 in Lagos. The duo of Makinde now a student of International Relations at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akaugba- Akoko, Ondo State and Ashogbon, back at the Mass Communication Department of Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu for her National Higher Diploma course beat ten other entrants from other... Continue Reading
DAKAR, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) – Further heavy rains in Niger have caused the number of people displaced by flooding to soar from 111,000 last week to 198,740 this week, says the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is calling on donors and aid agencies to urgently send shelter materials, blankets and mosquito nets. “Response in rural areas has been slow thus far,” the head of OCHA in Niger, Modibo Traoré, told IRIN. Flood-displaced families in remote the Diffa region in the southeast, and Agadez in the north, have received no assistance to date. In Agadez... Continue Reading
It is common for sweeping statements to be made by politicians whenever they take to the podium. And when one clinches the ultimate prize of assuming the...
By Lawrence Paganga (Harare) – The main MDC party on Friday launched a new membership card in Harare as the party gears on a recruitment drive and strengthening its structures ahead of national elections next year. Speaking at the event on Friday, MDC president, Morgan Tsvangirai told hundreds of gathered people that as a post-liberation party, the MDC was born to protect and promote the ideals of the liberation struggle. “We represent the natural successor to the continuing struggle to build the type of nation our heroes sacrificed so much to achieve,” he said. The party said over 3 million Zimbabweans... Continue Reading
By Mark Oloo (Nairobi) – Kenya today promulgated a new constitution at a colourful ceremony attended by controversial Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir. But today’s visit to Nairobi by the Sudanese leader wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) has raised questions over Kenya’s commitment to the Rome Statute, which established the Hague-based court. Under the statute, Kenya, having domesticated the Rome statute, is required to have arrested Bashir for handing over to the ICC over crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Sudan’s Darfur region. His conspicuous presence among other African leaders at the event elicited mixed reactions from the... Continue Reading
