Despite their father being an oil magnate, Obat’s children have led a very wayward, immoral and ruthless lifestyle in the United Kingdom. Identity theft, Fraud and Adultery are just some of their hallmarks. It is a far cry from their so called wealthy and well-cultured background.
The Chinese government has allegedly awarded scholarships to the children of nine top Namibian government officials, including the daughter of the president, to study at universities in China.
Islamic insurgent group al Shabaab demanded today that the UN’s World Food Programme immediately stop importing relief rations to Somalia. The rebels released a statement claiming the agency is hampering Somalia’s self-sufficiency by bringing food rations from outside the country.
Military operations backed by the United Nations in eastern areas of Democratic Republic of Congo have failed to neutralise Rwandan rebels, according to a leaked UN report. The report claims actions by the UN-backed forces have actually made the humanitarian crisis worse.
Large sums of money promised to developing countries to tackle climate change aid are unaccounted for, according to the BBC. A BBC investigation has found that it is not possible to verify whether the 410 million US dollars a year pledged by industrialised countries in the 2001 Bonn Declaration has actually been paid or not.
A British court ruled yesterday that Liberia has to pay over 20 million US dollars to two Caribbean-registered investment funds for debts that are more than 30 years old.
The world’s largest diamond trading network has declared a ban on all gems from Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields because of what it calls “severe and continued human rights violations”.
Humanitarian assistance in Africa is failing to match the needs of vulnerable communities by being “too reliant on reactive disaster response”, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said.
The infant mortality rate in Zimbabwe has risen by 20 per cent over the past two decades, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The agency released data this week from a survey it conducted with the Zimbabwean government last May.
A Tunisian court yesterday sentenced a journalist to six months in jail for assault following a trial that has been criticised by international rights groups. Taoufik Ben Brik has written articles for the French media and is known as a vocal critic of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who has been in power for 22 years.




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