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“Hotel Rwanda” hero Paul Rusesabagina in the pink inmate’s uniform arrives from the Nyarugenge prison with Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) officers at the Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 25, 2020.  (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP)     Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the “Hotel Rwanda” film, admitted to a Kigali court on Friday that he had formed an armed group but denied any role in their crimes. Rusesabagina is famed for his depiction in the movie in which he is shown to have saved hundreds of lives during the 1994 genocide, which left some 800,000 dead. After years in exile, where he has become a fierce government critic, he appeared under arrest in Rwanda last month, after apparently being lured into a private jet under false pretences. In recent years Rusesabagina co-founded the Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change (MRCD), an opposition party based abroad. While he has previously expressed support for the National Liberation Front (FLN), wh

Retired colonel and former defence minister Bah Ndaw has been sworn in as Mali’s interim president, more than a month after a military coup overthrew embattled leader Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Coup leader Colonel Assimi Goita was also sworn in as the vice president of the transition during a ceremony on Friday held in the capital, Bamako. Ndaw’s appointment was announced earlier this week by Goita. The interim president will rule for a maximum of 18 months before staging nationwide elections Following the August 18 coup, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc suspended Mali from its decision-making institutions, shut borders and halted financial flows in an attempt to push for a swift return to civilian rule. ECOWAS envoy Goodluck Jonathan said he hoped the punitive measures would be lifted following Ndaw’s inauguration, although no decision has yet been taken ‘Reputation of decency’ Mali’s neighbours took a hard line with the military government, fearful th

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Speaking with State House correspondents after the meeting, he declared that it would be “immoral” for him to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Obaseki won re-election in the last Saturday’s governorship election, which he contested under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He defeated APC’s Osagie Ize-Iyamu with a margin of 84,336 votes. Obaseki had dumped the APC for the PDP, when the ruling party disqualified him from participating in its primary election. There have since been concerns that having won the election on the platform of the PDP, he might return to the APC. But Obaseki, who met with Buhari alongside his deputy, Philip Shuaibu, said it would be immoral to do so. He described his trip to Aso Rock as a “thank you visit” to Buhari. Thanks

,  The Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has declared that no Governor in the country is a chief security officer of their states. He said instead, the Governors should be seen and referred to as logistic officers. Appearing on Channels Television Sunrise Daily monitored by DAILY POST, Wike said they’re only needed when it is time to provide logistics. According to him, “They [Governors] are chief logistic officers. No Governor is a chief security officer. “When it concerns providing logistics that’s what we do. But talking about being Chief Security Officer…no. What control do you have? “When I as a Governor wake up in the morning, I can’t find my ADC, I can’t find my orderly and I ask questions, they saiy they have all been withdrawn. So what Chief Security oOficer are you?” Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently.

On Monday, September 21, 2020, at the request of Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis, the Office of the United States Attorney along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scranton Resident Office, began an inquiry into reports of potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections. Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered and reviewed certain physical evidence. Election officials in Luzerne County have been cooperative.  At this point we can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded. Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time. Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. All nine ballots were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Our inquiry remains ongoing and we expect later today to share our up to date findings with officials in Luzerne County. It is the vital

Workers at De United Foods Industries Limited, makers of Indomie noodles, have cried out for help over what they described as modern-day slavery and unfair labour practices meted out on them since March. The workers said cooks, drivers, nannies, stewards and other groups working for the largely Asian staff of the company, had not been allowed to return home to see their families by the management of the company under the guise of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The workers in a statement on Thursday said, “Ironically these bosses go out everyday including attending social functions while a few of them have even contracted the COVID-19 and infected the helpless domestic workers. The affected domestic workers are largely drawn from those living with their bosses around Ikoyi and Victoria Island parts of Lagos. “The Federation of Informal Workers Organisations of Nigeria, a network of working people under informal employment in Nigeria, was alerted about this development almost two mon

The Nigerian presidency has lambasted Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff. In a statement on Thursday, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, declared that Danjuma is not “a natural source of pressure for good governance”. His comment was in reaction to the letter by  UK lawmakers to the Commonwealth on the killings in Nigeria . The legislators disclosed that they met and spoke to Danjuma who told them that the country’s Armed Forces “are not neutral”, and that they “collude in ethnic cleansing”. Without mentioning the former General’s name, Shehu said during religious and ethnic riots in two states in 2001 and 2002, Nigerians “were violently and ruthlessly put down by the military under his authority”. This, he noted, caused the deaths “of thousands of lives and the displacement of some further 50,000 persons.” Shehu wrote: “It is important to stress to our partners and colleagues in the United Kingdom that not all who press them have the best interests of eit