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At least 46 people have been killed in fierce fighting between rival ethnic groups in the troubled northwestern part of Kenya. Members of the Pokot ethnic group attacked a village of the Turkana group in the Turkana region on Monday. Turkana is located in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Rift Valley Regional Commissioner Osman Warfa said the attackers fled the remote region after carrying out the massacre. “The attack took place in a very remote zone which is inaccessible,” media outlets quoted Warfa as saying.
The regional official also added that the Kenyan military has sent troops to the area in order to hunt down the attackers and perpetrators. Reports say an unknown number of animals were stolen during the assault. According to reports, the latest attack could have been in retaliation for an earlier raid carried out by the Pokot tribesmen against another village in Baringo, northern Kenay. The Turkana and Pokot tribes have endured a prolonged conflict over livestock pasture territories in the desolate region. The Kenyan authorities have established inter-clan committees to help restore stability in the region. Kenya has witnessed many bloody tribal clashes over access to water and pasture with subsequent revenge attacks in different parts of the country.
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(Reuters) - Niger has evacuated thousands of Nigerian refugees sheltering from Boko Haram fighters on Lake Chad's Karamga island, a military official told Reuters on Tuesday, as the armies of four west African nations battle to quash the Islamist militants.
A regional governor in southern Niger said last week that the refugees should leave after Boko Haram fighters killed scores of the country's soldiers and civilians during a dawn ambush on the island on April 25.
The executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency in Yobe state, Idi Jidawa, said that 4,000 displaced Nigerians were in the process of being sent home.
Lake Chad's islands, which lie in dense swampland, have been used by Boko Haram to mount surprise attacks on the bordering countries: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
The group, which is fighting to create a caliphate in west Africa, has killed thousands and uprooted 1.5 million people from north eastern Nigeria, many of whom have found relative security in neighboring countries including Chad and Cameroon.
The Nigerian refugees were already on their way back home and would arrive at the frontier town of Geidam in Yobe state on Wednesday, said Jidawa. A Nigerian security official, who declined to be named, confirmed the news.
"Though NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency) is in charge, we are assisting them in the exercise of profiling and documentation," Jidawa said.
With the help of regional armies, Nigerian troops have cornered Boko Haram fighters into Sambisa Forest, where it has rescued nearly 700 women and children that the group had held captive.
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Germany has come under fire from a United Nations panel reviewing efforts to eliminate racism in the country. Recent events, including PEGIDA rallies and the alleged arson attack on a refugee home, have raised concerns.
"Racism in Germany is not only found in extreme right-wing circles, but in all parts of society," the German government admitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva on Tuesday.
"Many politicians and parties fail to consistently disassociate themselves from racist resentments, stereotypes and prejudices," added Selmin Çaliskan, Secretary General of Amnesty International in Germany. She says this contributes to support for the "stigmatization of minorities," promoted by the anti-immigrant PEGIDA movement among others.
The weekly right-wing PEGIDA rallies saw a huge surge in popularity between October and February, with numbers reaching as high as 25,000 in the eastern German city of Dresden.
'Active civil society'
But Almut Wittling-Vogel, a Justice Ministry official representing the German government pointed out that the protest movement has since been outnumbered by counter-protesters at demonstrations.
"We are happy that we can also cite examples of an active civil society," she said before the panel.
Wittling-Vogel also promised that Germany would step up the prosecution of racist crimes.
The pledge to increase convictions came in light of concerns raised by the UN convention over alleged investigation blunders into the suspected murders of migrants by the National Socialist Underground (NSU). The trial of the group's last known member, Beate Zschäpe, is currently ongoing in Munich.
'Racial profiling'
On Wednesday, the second day of the two-day hearing, German human rights groups are expected to criticize the government for failures in the fight against racism.
Among other issues put before the panel will be persistent claims of "racial profiling" by German police in routine checks on trains.
"Such actions would undermine the confidence of ethnic minorities in the German police," Amnesty International warned. The German government's report denied the claims.
Human rights groups also say that refugees often struggle to find housing and legal help.
'Major policy field'
In around two weeks the panel of 18 independent experts will publish proposals to improve anti-racism efforts in Germany and further implement the UN convention against racism, which came into effect in 1969.
Petra Follmar-Otto, head of the German Institute for Human Rights, said she hoped the hearing would "finally make the fight against racism in Germany a major policy field."
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Unidentified gunmen have killed; a senior Cameroon government official in front of his family last Wednesday at Biteng neighborhood in Yaoundé, Cameroon Concord was informed late over the week end. Maurice Akoa, Divisional Delegate at the Ministry of Transport for the Nyong-et-Kelle Division in the Centre region, was coldly shot dead by two unidentified individuals-last Wednesday at Biteng. Biteng is a secure residential area in the outskirts of the nation’s capital hosting prominent government officials including Chief and Prof. Peter Agbor Tabi, Assistant Secretary General at the presidency of the republic.
Cameroon Concord learnt from sources at the gendarmerie brigade at Nkomo that the tragedy occurred at around 22 hours in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, when two hooded individuals burst into the home of the Akoa family. The attackers triggered the alarm of his car three times to lure the victim outside. The first time it was his son who came out to see what was causing the alarm activation. The second time, it was his wife. And the third time, the family head himself came out on the porch, and it was at this time that the unknown visitors shot him at close range.
Cameroon Concord will be discussing this latest development via its AGBAW-EBAI DEBATE soonest.
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Two crew members of a Cameroon Air Force Harbin Z-9AE helicopter were lightly injured when their aircraft crashed near Douala International Airport last week. The aircraft came down on April 24 whilst attempting to return to base after a routine training exercise. Local media report that the two crew members spent a couple of days in hospital before being released. The Ministry of Defense is yet to comment on the incident.
However, communications minister issued a statement after the crash saying the helicopter had been practicing for Cameroon’s National Day celebrations on 20 May in Yaounde. The minister said an investigation to determine the exact causes of the accident is underway. The crashed aircraft is relatively new to the Cameroon Air Force – four of the type were formally accepted into service by Cameroon’s Ministry of Defence on 10 November last year, after being acquired from China.
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Boluda Corporación Marítima, through its filial in Cameroon and inside its programe of Social Corporative Responsibility inaugurated the Maritime Museum of the City of Douala in combination with the National Council of Stevedorers of Cameroon (CNCC) some years ago. With the creation of the museum, Boluda Corporacion Maritima made public its compromise with the countries in which it operates and the promotion of its economic and cultural development
The museum provided an insight into the relations from ancient times that the African continent had maintained with the maritime world. In it, tourists were provided with the different works related with the sea and the ports activity. With a clear educational vocation, the museum encouraged cultural activities inside the city of Douala. The center was a reference for port life and acted like an economic showcase of the professionals of maritime world.
The center is now a thing of the past as a mysterious fire ravaged the building down early on Sunday the 3rd of May 2015. Our intelligence officers in the economic capital of Douala are yet to establish the real cause of the fire. A report by CRTV’s Ngomba Endeley sent to our Essen bureau in Germany, at the time of writing this report did not provide any further details. However, our informant in the Littoral region hinted that a political war is currently going on involving the various investors in the ports of Douala and Kribi. Our source also suggested that the fire is manmade and not accidental. Cameroon Concord's editorial desk has opened a major investigation.
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