ABUJA– The top brass of African armies will converge in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, next week for the African Land Forces Summit, which is being hosted by the Nigerian army in conjunction with the United …
Day: April 12, 2018
NIGERIA NOW HAS 198 MILLION PEOPLE
ABUJA — Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, now has a population of 198 people, according to the National Population Commission (NPC), which says the the country’s urban population is growing at an average annual growth …
UN: Nigeria’s Boko Haram Has Abducted More Than 1,000 Children Since 2013
Islamist fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group have abducted more than 1,000 children in the northeast since 2013, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said Friday.
The militants regularly took youngsters to spread fear and …
Amnesty Sees Progress Against Death Penalty in Africa
A new report, released early Thursday in London, from rights group Amnesty International spotlights sub-Saharan Africa as a “beacon of hope” in the fight to abolish the death penalty as the number of state-sanctioned executions …
Amnesty Says Executions Fell, But China Still Tops List
Amnesty International reports the number of executions around the world continued to fall last year, with a 4 percent drop in executions and a significant decline in the number of new death sentences.
In an …