Former President Jacob Zuma Just before midnight on July 7, a previously unthinkable event took place in South Africa. Former President Jacob Zuma was taken into custody by South African police at his rural homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, and transported to a prison within the province where he started a 15-month sentence as legal punishment …
20 Extraordinary Facts about CIA Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention
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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Statement at the Meeting of His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin with Palace Chiefs and Enigies on the Repatriation of the Looted Benin Artifacts.
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 …
Biafra separatist leader abducted by Nigeria from Kenya, say family by Emmanuel Akinwotu
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 …
Lessons from Rwanda by Ken Agala
"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 …
Centre for Nigeria Progress 