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Tunisia
For holiday makers with a love of ancient history, Tunisia takes the cake. For wherever one finds oneself in Tunisia, the footsteps of history are very discernible from multiple sites left in a melting pot of civilizations from the Phoenicians, the Romans and the Ancient World of the Berbers, the original inhabitants. The lively city of Sousse ...
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Tanzania
Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and also the largest. At 14,763 square kilometres, this protected area borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Prides of lions ...
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25 Mar Shell faces court action over Nigeria oil spills
Shell, the international oil company is being taken to court in London over alleged unpaid compensation for recent oil spills in a Nigerian fishing community.
Reports said Shell has accepted responsibility for the spillage of about 4,000 barrels in the Niger Delta. However, negotiations had broken down over the compensation, forcing the Ogoni to resort to court action.
The oil-producing Niger Delta region remains one of the country's poorest and least developed regions even though Nigeria is one of the leading oil producers in the world.
The Ogoni people have long complained about the environmental damage to their communities, but they say they have mostly been ignored. Ken Saro Wiwa, the leading campaigner for the Ogoniland people was executed in 1995 under General Sani Abacha’s regime after a long struggle against authorities on behalf on the community.
Analysts said this will be the first time Shell has faced claims in a UK High Court from the developing world for environmental damage.
The oils spills in the Delta region happened in 2008 continued into 2009, caused by what Shell said were operational failures. The company promised it would pay compensation according to Nigerian law and would clean up the oil and restore the land.
Analysts said the spills had devastated a once-thriving fishing community of some 50,000 people.
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25 Mar AU force to hunt down Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony, the fugitive Ugandan warlord is to be hunted down by a 5,000-strong military force set up by the African Union.
The AU says the force, which will be launched in South Sudan, will exist for as long as it takes to capture or kill Kony whose intention is to install a government in Uganda based on the Biblical 10 Commandments
Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is accused of rape, mutilation, murder and the recruitment of child soldiers. He and his followers believed to be in the Central African Republic.
The AU mission comes in the wake of a huge Internet campaign targeting the LRA leader. The video – Kony 2012- has been viewed more than 100 million times on YouTube.
African ministers agreed the new strategy at their meeting in Entebbe, Uganda.
Observers said the AU force will have a Ugandan commander and comprise troops from Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Congo - all countries in which the LRA has operated.
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