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Photo credit: CNN People traffickers are posting promotional videos featuring innocent young British women flirting to entice male migrants to go to Britain.  Daily Mail reports that clips of the women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services, providing irregular migration routes to the UK and Europe, it…

Photo credit: the Guardian In much of West Africa, democracy survives not because citizens defend it, but because soldiers occasionally tolerate it. And you can take that to the bank because it is the brutal truth behind the region’s expanding map of military rule. from Mali to Niger, Burkina Faso to Guinea, coup-makers do not need tanks…

Photo credit: The Guardian The day of reckoning came for Jan Jahanzeb and fellow Afghan Israr Niazal as they were jailed for the rape they committed last May.  Daily Mail reports that the boys, both 17, raped a 15-year-old girl around Midlands Park A day after the rape, Jahaneb was in the park without a care…

I don’t really love talking about Nigerian politics and politicians. That’s for no other reason but my belief that the government should be allowed to commit its wonder, or blunder, as the case may be.  However, recent happenings are forcing me out of my manhole.  I’m sure those who are used to my writings would…

Photo credit: Reuters Tanzania’s government has warned citizens that protests planned for Tuesday would be unlawful and amounted to an attempted coup. Reuters reports that security forces have been deployed heavily in major cities. Activists and the opposition have called for anti-government protests on Tuesday, the anniversary of mainland Tanzania’s independence from Britain, following the violent suppression of…

Photo credit: Arab News Officials of the Greek coastguard were searching on Monday for 15 people who fell into the water from a migrant boat that was found drifting off the coast of Crete with 17 bodies on board. Neos Kosmos reports that all the 17 fatalities were discovered on Saturday on the craft, which…

Photo credit: Aljazeera At the last UN General Assembly, the Namibian President, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, proudly unveiled the long strides and historic milestones that the country’s women have been making. The African Heritage reports that women make up 57% of the government.  Namibia has done what no other country in the world has ever done: The country…