Life Under ISIS: City Residents Lack Food, ‘Sorcerers’ Executed

A new Human Rights Watch report describes suffering in the Libyan city of Sirte

By Sarah Lynch

Militants who pledged allegiance to ISIS, in 2014. — REUTERS

Through dozens of interviews, some conducted by email and phone, Human Rights Watch discovered that locals in the Libyan city of Sirte are suffering from severe atrocities at the hands of the Islamic State and are deprived of necessities.
“As if beheading and shooting perceived enemies isn’t enough, ISIS is causing terrible suffering in Sirte even for Muslims who follow its rules,” Letta Tayler of Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. “While the world’s attention is focused on atrocities in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is also getting away with murder in Libya.”

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Fuel hike is consequence of corruption, says Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the fuel hike from N86.5 per litre to N145 can be traced to the scarcity of dollars occasioned by the depletion of the foreign reserve.

The Vice-President said this at a book presentation of a book titled, ‘Anatomy of Corruption in Nigeria’ which was authored by legal luminary, Yusuf Ali (SAN), in Abuja on Tuesday.

Ecowas permits FG

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja
The Economic Community of West African States Court on Tuesday granted the Federal Government the permission to give oral evidence in the fundamental human rights suit filed by detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
Dasuki contended in his suit that the Federal Government had breached his rights by his continued detention in the custody of the Department of State Service since December 29, 2015 after he was granted bail by the three judges before whom he was being prosecuted on different sets of charges.

Gallant Nigerian soldier Henry Elobor celebrated his birthday recently right at the battlefield. Happy belated birthday to him! More photos after the cut.

An Online Initiative Helps Asylum Seekers Call Home

An online campaign is asking for phone credits so that refugees can contact loved ones they're separated from by conflict

Volunteers from all over the world are gathering in a Facebook group to donate phone credit for displaced asylum seekers, who need the credits to stay in touch with their families they’ve been forced to leave behind.
The online campaign, called “Phone credit for refugees and displaced people,”

6 crazy African pictures. Number 4 will amaze you.

1.  Makeshift pool table

There is never a shortage of resourcefulness on the African continent, and this epitomises it.

2.  The African High-rider

1 million children are unable to go to school because of Boko Haram

That’s right, UNICEF have confirmed that over 1 million children are being prevented from going to school due the violent attacks of Boko Haram. Boko Haram’s ferocious attacks in the last 6 months has led to the closure of over 2000 schools across north east Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.