Nairobi/Abuja - Nigerian militants on Wednesday attacked a tanker carrying 4,000 tonnes of diesel and kidnapped a Romanian member of the ship's crew, reports said.
The BBC quoted private security sources as saying that the militants, who approached the MT Meredith by speedboat, blew up the ship's engine with dynamite.
The attack follows on from a similar raid on another tanker operated by Royal Dutch Shell at the weekend.
Militant raids on oil installations are common in Nigeria, where groups say they are fighting for a share of oil profits in the Niger Delta.
Nairobi - Kenyan newspapers on Wednesday went Obama-crazy as they hailed the beginning of the reign of the United States' first black president, whose roots lie in Kenya.
Images of President Obama were plastered all over the Daily Nation and The Standard, Kenya's two leading newspapers.
While there was much praise for the man whose father grew up in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo, the newspapers also sounded a note of caution.
Nairobi/Goma - International charity Oxfam said Wednesday it was concerned for the safety of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Rwandan troops entered the country to hunt down Hutu militia formed after the 1994 massacre in Rwanda.
Several thousand Rwandan soldiers entered eastern DR Congo on Tuesday under an agreement with the Congolese government.
The soldiers headed north from Goma, the provincial capital of the unstable North Kivu province, to find the militia.
Nairobi/Kigali - Agnes Ntamabyariro, a former Rwandan justice minister, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her role in the 1994 genocide, reports said Tuesday.
The BBC reported that Ntamabyariro, who had a Hutu father and Tutsi mother, was convicted in a Kigali court Monday for conspiracy and incitement related to the genocide.
Hutu militia slaughtered over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus within 100 days following the assassination of president Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6 1994.
Nairobi/Goma - Rwandan troops on Tuesday entered the Democratic Republic of Congo to hunt down Hutu rebel forces formed after the 1994 massacre in Rwanda, reports said Tuesday.
The United Nations peacekeeping force MONUC said in statement that it had noted the presence of the Rwandans, but was taking no part in the operation, which was agreed by the Congolese and Rwandan governments on December 5.
Local sources said that several thousand Rwandan troops had reached the Kibati refugee camp, near Goma - the provincial capital of the eastern North Kivu province.
Nairobi (Kenya), Jan. 20: Americans aren''t the only ones celebrating Barack Obama''s ascendancy to the US presidency. Kenyans too are embracing the American-born son of a Kenyan man as one of their own.
"I feel so great because he''s one of us, he''s like a brother to us," Fox News quoted 27-year-old Nick Otieno, as saying while displaying his Barack Obama t-shirt.
Nairobi/Abuja - Nigerian militants on Wednesday attacked a tanker carrying 4,000 tonnes of diesel and kidnapped a Romanian member of the ship's crew, reports said.
Nairobi - Kenyan newspapers on Wednesday went Obama-crazy as they hailed the beginning of the reign of the United States' first black president, whose roots lie in Kenya.
Nairobi/Goma - International charity Oxfam said Wednesday it was concerned for the safety of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Rwandan troops entered the country to hunt down Hutu militia formed after the 1994 massacre in Rwanda.
Nairobi/Kigali - Agnes Ntamabyariro, a former Rwandan justice minister, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her role in the 1994 genocide, reports said Tuesday.
Nairobi/Goma - Rwandan troops on Tuesday entered the Democratic Republic of Congo to hunt down Hutu rebel forces formed after the 1994 massacre in Rwanda, reports said Tuesday.
Nairobi (Kenya), Jan. 20: Americans aren''t the only ones celebrating Barack Obama''s ascendancy to the US presidency. Kenyans too are embracing the American-born son of a Kenyan man as one of their own.
