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UNITED States officials have extradited a Rwandan woman, Marie-Claire Mukeshimana, convicted in absentia by a court in her country for her role in the 1994 genocide, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported yesterday. The report claimed that Mukeshimana was brought to Kigali late on Wednesday. She was sentenced in 2009 to 19 years in prison for involvement in the killing of ...

A Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Federal House of Representatives, Dr Kingsley Ebenyi, has condemned the persecution of Nigerians abroad. This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by Mr Titus Agbo, a legislative aide to Ebenyi and made available to newsmen The statement quoted Ebenyi as saying that the recent molestation of Nigerians by the ...

A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres (43 inches) was found near a village in the north of the country some 750 kilometres (480 miles) from the capital Windhoek, according to police ...

An Indonesian girl swept out to sea in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and long feared drowned has apparently turned up in her village and been reunited with her parents seven years later. The girl named Wati, 15, who uses just one name, was ripped from her mother’s grasp in the province of Aceh by the raging waters and has ...

Mali and Algeria have agreed to step up coordination in efforts to root out Al Qaeda-linked groups in the region, officials said Thursday after top brass met in Bamako. “Our two countries have decided to strengthen their military cooperation in the fight against AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb),” a high-ranking Malian army official told AFP. “For an effective ...