By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr. 6, 2012 (IPS/GIN) – While the U.S. candidate for World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, still has the inside track, the two non-U.S. candidates, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian finance minister Jose Antonio Ocampo, have been raking in high-profile endorsements. In an open letter sent to the Bank’s executive board Wednesday, 39 ...
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Among the rebels controlling Mali’s northern city of Gao are dozens of Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram group, a regional deputy told AFP on Monday. A security source confirmed the information. “There are a good 100 Boko Haram fighters in Gao. They are Nigerians and from Niger,” said Abu Sidibe, a regional deputy. “They’re not hiding. Some are even able to ...
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The World Bank needs a shake-up to end the inertia that has built up over six decades, Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, hoping to become the development lender’s next president, said Monday. Okonjo-Iweala, who spent more than two decades at the Bank before becoming Nigeria’s finance minister, pledged a sweeping reassessment of the way it does business if she is chosen over ...
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A jealous Taiwanese husband led an assault on a Facebook user who had flirted with his wife online, beating him to death with baseball clubs, police said Monday. Chou You-huang, a 34-year-old resident of south Taiwan’s Pingtung county, told police that he had requested a meeting with the 40-year-old victim, Chuang Shih-chang, after he found out about the online relationship. ...
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A massive car bomb killed 38 people near two churches in Kaduna on Easter Sunday.
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