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Just in. The LC1 Chairman of Ayibiri Village, at Onzivu, Arua Hill Division in Arua Municipality, was shot dead Yestermorning (Saturday 15 December 2018) by Military Soldiers, after 4 Guns were recovered from him. Intelligence sources have it that, He is perceived to be Hiring out those Guns to unscrupulous Thugs, for Killing and Robbing People at Night. This fruitful operation came at the verge, when incidents of Gunwielding Thugs Shooting and Robbing innocent People, was at its Climax. On behalf of the People of WestNile, i thank UPDF and Police for this wonderful operation done. It is Rogue and Chronical for such an LC1 to own an illegal Gun for Hire and Terrorising People with it at Night.

Main opposition candidate of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar signed an election peace pact on Wednesday, saying a ‘communication lapse’ had prevented him from participating in the initial process with other candidates. Atiku, Donald Duke and Oby Ezekwesili, were some of the opposition candidates, who were notably absent at Tuesday’s ceremony in Abuja, at which President Muhammadu Buhari and dozens of other candidates vowed to ensure non-violence. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament on February 16 next year. Gubernatorial and state assembly elections follow two weeks later. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said Abubakar was not at the event “due to (a) communication lapse between the National Peace Committee (NPC) and our party’s national secretariat”. But it added that both the party and Abubakar were “fully committed to a peaceful electoral process and elections in 2019”. Atiku A...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, who joined Twitter on Friday, has called out a social media user, who was soliciting funds in his name. In his second tweet after he joined the popular social networking site, Zuma quoted a tweet from a user who identifies themselves as Muke, and simply said ‘This is false’. — Jacob G Zuma (@PresJGZuma)   Muke had tweeted asking people to send monetary contributions to a specific Capitek bank account, saying they were ‘fundraising for uBaba’, as Zuma is fondly refered to in South Africa. The High Court in South Africa on Thursday ruled that Zuma must pay for legal costs of criminal prosecutions brought against him while in office. How Zuma was welcomed on Twitter. The 76-year-old former president, who was South Africa’s head of state from 2009 to 2018, joined Twitter on Friday, saying he felt the need to ‘move with the times’. “Hello, everyone. I have decided to move with times t...

[12/13/2018, 21:27] Hashim Bruce: Something must be done,  the army seems to over step.  Captain Augustine please get to my inbox if you read this message Thanks. [12/13, 21:31] Osuta Yusuf: We Link up about this! [12/13, 21:32] Osuta Yusuf: At the same time, @⁨Hashim Bruce  and @⁨Ojobile⁩  we may also discuss privately and do something to avert this madness. [12/13, 21:32] Osuta Yusuf: I have written to Hon Wadri Kasiano and waiting for  his Feedback. [12/13, 21:34] Osuta Yusuf: As the way Forward is to Contact the MPs of other Constituencies; Maracha East and Maracha West, Terego East and Terego West, Adjumani, Obongi, Moyo, Ayivu, Koboko and Yumbe. [12/13, 21:46] Kasiano Wadri: Mr Osuta good evening to you. How are you. Your report on the arrest of the youths has equally pained me if they have nothing to do with the spate of armed robberies in Arua of late. I wish you could give flesh to the information so that I can link up with the securit...

French authorities have arrested a man suspected of committing war crimes in the Central African Republic and he will face extradition to The Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Tuesday. Prosecutors say Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was the “senior leader” of the Anti-Balaka militia that carried out systematic attacks on the country’s Muslim population in 2013-2014. Ngaissona, who denies wrongdoing, was elected in February to the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football despite objections from groups including Human Rights Watch. It named had him as a leader of the Anti-Balaka in a report in 2016. The ICC said Ngaissona was suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, deportation, persecution, torture, attacking civilians, and recruiting child soldiers. A chamber at the court “found reasonable grounds to believe Mr. Ngaissona is liable for having committed jointly with others...

Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, on 1 December 2018, released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers. The phpMyAdmin project last Sunday gave an early heads up  about the latest security update through its blog, probably the first time, as an experiment to find if pre-announcements can help website admins, hosting providers and package managers better prepare for the security release. "We are inspired by the workflow of other projects (such as Mediawiki and others) which often announce any security release in advance to allow package maintainers and hosting providers to prepare. We are experimenting to see if such a workflow is suitable for our project," phpMyAdmin release manager Isaac Bennetch told The Hacker News. phpMyAdmin is a free, open-source administration tool for man...

Africa’s most eagerly awaited yet delayed elections is finally due to be held on December 23, 2018. All things being equal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, will experience its first democratic handover of executive power. Elections due for December 2016 were postponed with the elections body, CENI, citing the inability to put together a valid voters roll but also government’s talk of not having funds to organize the process. Incumbent and outgoing Joseph Kabila managed to stay for two-years after the expiration of his second constitutional term in office. DRC’s constitutional court had in 2016 ruled that he could stay in office till when next polls were held. CENI at a point had projected that the earliest polls could be held was in April 2019. Pressure from political actors at home and considerable international push meant Kinshasa had to slate a 2018 date even with the brave move that the entire process was going to be state-funded. Then the focus turned to wh...