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UK: Ghanaian trader accused of £1.3bn fraud
A suspected rogue trader accused of a staggering £1.3billion fraud told friends he needed ‘a miracle’ days before he was arrested.
Kweku Adoboli, 31, posted a desperate last message on Facebook as he tried to recover enormous losses he had run up through illegal trading.
Detectives detained Adoboli, who works for Swiss banking giant UBS, during...
Burkina Faso offers asylum to Gaddafi
Burkina Faso has announced its readiness to offer asylum to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi while also offering to recognize the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya’s government.
Burkinabe Foreign Minister Yipene Djibril Bassolet on Wednesday said that Gaddafi could go into exile in his country even though it is a signatory of the International...
The Fall Of The Giant, The Mourning Of The People
On a fateful day in February, the people of Benghazi long time enemies of the Geddafi regime took encouragement from the uprising of the people of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt and staged a demonstration calling for the fall of the 42 year rule of Muamar Geddafi. It was met with a furious reaction from the strong and arguably Africa’s most authoritative...
Strauss-Kahn free after courts let prosecutor drop sex case by Guinean maid
NEW YORK | The former chief of the International Monetary Fund became a free man Tuesday when a judge ended the sexual assault case against him at the request of prosecutors.
They told the court that the hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn couldn’t be trusted.
Although evidence showed that Strauss-Kahn, 62, had a sexual encounter with Nafissatou...
Sham wife ‘liked chicken, smoking… and was big’
A MAN quizzed over his sham wedding could only tell cops his new bride “was big, black and liked cigs and chicken burgers”.
Mojeed Bello, 31, was rumbled when a vicar spotted a lack of romance as the Nigerian wed Dutch-born Carina Merselina, 25.
Rev Robert Simpson then went to their “home” address and found it was student digs,...
‘Brilliant’ Ghanaian Oxford University student drowns in French beauty spot
'Loved': Kojo Minta was described by a fellow student as being hugely popular
A brilliant Oxford University student has drowned in front of two despairing friends at a beauty spot in rural France, police revealed today.
Kojo Minta, 24, slipped into the fast-flowing Gave d’Oloron river in Navarrenx, in the Aquitaine region, close to the...
‘The war on Libya is against all of Africa’
I want to ask you all to come out on Sat., Aug. 13, to march in Harlem against the attacks on Libya and Zimbabwe and against the economic cuts of teachers and workers. Who’s all coming out for the march in Harlem, please stand up.
(The audience stood up.)
Our party’s first demonstration was in 1959 at Rockefeller Center in defense of Congo. This...
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