Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, has relocated another 150 refugees who were detained in the Abu Selim detention centre in south Tripoli to UNHCR’s Gathering and Departure Facility (GDF) in the centre of Libya’s capital, safe from hostilities.

Over three days last week, South Africa-based staff from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with Malawi and South Africa, assisted 57 Malawian nationals with voluntary return to their homes, following an outbreak of violence in the Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal.

Ivanka David Bohigian, Acting President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, and Ivanka Trump, Advisor to US President Donald Trump, have announced the launch of OPIC’s 2X Africa initiative to support investment in Africa women.

Noting a 300 per cent surge in the number of measles cases during the first three months of this year, compared to the same period last year, two UN agency heads have declared that we now stand “in the middle of a global measles crisis.

The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $15m investment package to Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit) to support infrastructure financing through the domestic debt capital markets in Nigeria.

The World Bank has unveiled a new plan to help African countries strengthen their human capital.

Margaret Kenyatta The international human rights non-governmental organization, CitizenGO, has presently taken on the First Lady of Kenya, Margaret Kenyatta, over her alleged abortion stance.

Neji Accomplished Nigerian singer, SUNNY NEJI , in the piece below, gives his own opinion on the war between two music industry heavyweights, Tony Okoroji and Efe Omorogbe , who are locked in a torrid battle for the soul of the royalty collection body, Copyright Society of Nigeria.

te Pas After 20 fantastic years with arguably the world’s biggest documentary festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA has bid farewell to senior programmer Martijn te Pas.