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Mattarella says Italy doing its part alone on Libya

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Italian President Sergio Mattarella, speaking from Malta at a summit of European heads of state on the migrant crisis, said Italy is ‘doing its part, without any help’ to manage the migrant problem in Libya, adding that he was making the comment ‘without any ‘polemic force”. Mattarella said that with the closure of the Balkan route, the main route is that of Africa.’The duty to work on conditions in refugee camps is everyone’s, even international organisations,’ he said.Mattarella said a simple ‘closure would be unmanageable and only the European Union as a whole can efficiently manage the readmission, reception of those who have a right to it in the entire Union, and only the EU can manage accords with countries of origin of migrant flows’.

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Court remands 30 IPOB members in prison

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A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday, remanded 30 suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra in prison custody. The suspected IPOB members were arrested on Tuesday by the operatives of the Police for allegedly engaging in violent acts that breached the peace in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state. Nine out of the 30 persons arraigned in court were accused of killing a police sergeant identified as Steven Daniel on Wednesday during the crisis at Oyigbo. The Chief Magistrate, Amadi Amadi-Nna, further directed the court registrar to remit the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice and adjourned the matter indefinitely. The prosecutors, decided that the charge on which they were brought to court was very heavy and weighty. The suspects, in the other hand, asked to strike out charges. However, the counsel for the suspects, Mr. Donald Loho, maintained that he would explore the necessary options to ensure the suspects were freed.

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Egypt new ambassador to Italy heads to Rome

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Egypt’s new ambassador to Italy, Hesham Badr, left Cairo for Rome on Friday morning. On Wednesday, the new Italian ambassador to Egypt, Giampaolo Cantini, assumed his duties in Cairo. On Thursday, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Italy’s Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano met in London, and stressed the importance of the strengthening the two countries’ cooperation in political, economic, and regional security areas. Cantini would be filling a position that had been vacant since April 2016, when the Italian foreign ministry recalled the ambassador citing concerns over transparency from Egyptian investigators looking into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt earlier that year. Alfano also said that sending Cantini to Cairo is intended to consolidate the political and ethical obligations of the Italian government regarding the search for the truth about the murder of Regeni. Italy is the fifth-largest foreign investor in Egypt. The two countries also closely cooperate on finding a peaceful resolution for the conflict in Libya, as well as combatting irregular migration from north Africa to European shores.

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US companies keen to increase investments in Egypt: Egyptian minister

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US companies are keen to increase investments in Egypt, Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr said. According to a ministry statement released on Thursday, Nasr met several representatives from US companies, including conglomerate General Electric, Johnson, food provider Cargill, pharmaceutical company Merck & Co, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil, food manufacturing company Kellogg’s, representatives from JPMorgan Chase and MasterCard.Egypt’s net foreign direct investment (FDI) rose by 14.5 percent to $7.9 billion in the 2016-2017 fiscal year that ended on 30 June, the central bank said on Tuesday.

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Buhari’s minister chides Atiku: says “Money cannot buy votes in Nigeria again”

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The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has said that never again will any Nigerian politician win an election in the country by giving money to the electorate. A remark that appeared targeted at Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar Mr. Dalung speaking in Hausa said: “Buhari’s government is on the right track now and is working towards fulfilling it promises”. Mr. Abubakar, a billionaire member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had accused the present administration of abandoning him despite utilising his support to come to power. The former vice president is believed to have been one of the major financiers of the APC and lost the party’s presidential primaries to Mr. Buhari in the 2015 elections. He is believed to be preparing for the 2019 elections and is seen by many as one of the few who could challenge Mr. Buhari in the elections.

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UK, US Foreign Secretaries support elections in Libya under UN leadership

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From London on Thursday, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillirson and his UK counterpart, Boris Johnson both reiterated full support for the UNSMIL and the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, in their efforts to regain stability in Libya. The UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said no harm in holding elections in Libya once the legal ground is set for the democratic event. Meanwhile, Tellirson said the US fully supports Salame’s efforts in Libya, adding that all solutions to the Libyan issue must be under the auspices of the UN. He also stressed that the US is keen on avoiding having Libya become an epicenter for terrorists or the reemergence of IS militants.

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Electoral Justice in Kenya and Nigeria

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Concerning the annulment of election results by Nigerian courts: in 2007, the several questionable returns made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were challenged in the courts. In the dissenting judgment it was found that the ballot papers used by the INEC were not marked and serialized as stipulated by law. In 2011, the results of the elections of not less 5 governors were annulled by the courts which ordered fresh elections in the affected states. Many legislators also lost their seats on grounds of electoral malfeasance. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu has just disclosed that the courts including the Supreme Court have nullified the results of 117 elected officials who emerged in 2015 general elections due to illegal party primaries or fraudulent election results. As no democratic country in the world has ever recorded a greater number of annulments of election results it is totally misleading to give the highly erroneous impression that Nigerian judges have always upheld the results of fraudulent elections.

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Harrowing Journeys – Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation

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Young migrants and refugees set out to escape harm or secure better futures – and face staggering risks in the process.For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, the journey is marked by high levels of abuse, trafficking and exploitation.Some are more vulnerable than others: those travelling alone, those with low levels of education and those undertaking longer journeys. Most vulnerable of all are those who, like Mohammad, come from sub-Saharan Africa.These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM) analysis of the journeys of some 11,000 migrant and refugee children (adolescents aged 14–17) and youth (18–24), as recorded in their responses to the Displacement Tracking Matrix Flow Monitoring Surveys conducted by IOM along the Central and Eastern Mediterranean routes to Europe in 2016 and 2017.

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Policemen cry out against suspended promotion exam

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The rank and file in the Nigeria Police have enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to right what they see as an act of injustice against them after their promotion examination to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police they wrote in 2015 was suddenly abandoned. They said they wrote to  National Assembly and police high command on the issue in February this year, nothing concrete had been done, pleading that President Buhari should intervene. The frustrated Police men said  they were shocked when suddenly the Police command  abandoned the entire process to commence fresh recruitment of civilians for the ASP cadet, pleading that the Federal  Government should  revisit the abandoned exercise that had almost been completed.

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Electoral Justice in Kenya and Nigeria

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Concerning the annulment of election results by Nigerian courts: in 2007, the several questionable returns made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were challenged in the courts. In the dissenting judgment it was found that the ballot papers used by the INEC were not marked and serialized as stipulated by law. In 2011, the results of the elections of not less 5 governors were annulled by the courts which ordered fresh elections in the affected states. Many legislators also lost their seats on grounds of electoral malfeasance. The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu has just disclosed that the courts including the Supreme Court have nullified the results of 117 elected officials who emerged in 2015 general elections due to illegal party primaries or fraudulent election results. As no democratic country in the world has ever recorded a greater number of annulments of election results it is totally misleading to give the highly erroneous impression that Nigerian judges have always upheld the results of fraudulent elections.

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