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General M Buhari rtd Mazi N Kanu After the attacks against the United States of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency conspired with dozens of governments to build a secret extraordinary rendition and detention program that spanned the globe. Extraordinary rendition is the transfer—without legal process—of a detainee to the custody of a foreign …
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Oba of Benin In the name of God and our Ancestors, I welcome you all and thank you all for honouring our invitation. I have called this meeting today to intimate you of the matter of the Benin Artifacts in Europe at the verge of being repatriated which I am sure you have heard and …
Nnamdi Kanu wearing a Jewish prayer shawl as he left his house in Umuahia in south-east Nigeria to meet veterans of the Nigerian civil war in May 2017. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images A Biafra separatist leader and UK national was arrested by Nigerian authorities in Kenya and taken to Nigeria in an act of extraordinary rendition, his …
"In May 2020, Lucien Kabuga, an 86 years old Rwandan fugitive was captured in France. Kabuga had been a fugitive for 26 years. He had been sought by Interpol, FBI, the international crimes tribunal, the Rwanda government and an international union of bounty hunters. Two years earlier, the US state department had placed a 5 …
Kenneth Kaunda As Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda, who has died aged 97, was an idealist and a visionary who played a key role in supporting African nationalism. During his 9,860 days in office from 1964, Kenneth Kaunda fought for majority rule of his neighbours, hosting the headquarters of the ANC and SWAPO in Lusaka …
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