Bullet removed from boy's brain after the church raid in Kenya

A photo of Satrin Osinya held by his older brother after the attack -

A bullet lodged in the brain of an infant boy during an attack on a church near Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa has been removed following an operation, a hospital spokesman says.

Six people died in the raid, including 18-month-old Satrin Osinya's mother.

Doctors believe the bullet which killed her while she was shielding her son exited her body and buried itself in his head during the attack.  

The bullet was removed during a three-hour operation at the Kenyatta National Hospital in the capital, Nairobi, chief neurosurgeon Mwangi Gichuru said.

"The baby is fully awake and he is back to his old state," he said.

                                                     A photo of the initial incident

Gaddafi's son Saadi 'apologising to the Libyan people from prison'

Gaddafi's son Saadi 'apologising to the Libyan people from prison'

 There has been a TV broadcast showing one of the sons of former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi apologising to the nation from prison in his prison wears.

In his words he said,

"I apologise to the Libyan people, and I apologise to the dear brothers in the Libyan government for all the harm I've caused and for disturbing the security and stability of Libya," he says.
"I admit that these things were wrong, and we should not have perpetrated these acts."
He also says he is being treated well in prison and calls on "those who carry weapons to hand over their weapons".
The conditions surrounding the release of the video are unclear.

Boko Haram insurgency 'affects millions' in Nigeria.

More than three million people are facing a humanitarian crisis in three northern Nigerian states hit by an Islamist-led insurgency, the government's relief agency has said.

The conflict has displaced about 250,000 people since January, it added.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three states last year to crush the insurgency.

However, the militant Islamist group Boko Haram has stepped up attacks in recent months.
The group operates mostly in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where the state of emergency is in force.

Earlier in a statement, the Nigerian government's National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said the "needs of the affected population are increasing by the day and the support of all is urgently required".
Borno was worst affected, with about 1.3 million people - most of them women, children and the elderly - in need of aid, Nema said.
In Adamawa, the number stood at around one million and in Yobe at more than 770,000, it said.

Nigerian Red Cross Society representative Soji Adeniyi said what has happening in the north-east was unprecedented.
"We have never had this kind of displacement caused by conflicts before in the country,'' he is quoted by Nigeria's privately-owned This Day newspaper as saying.
Earlier this month, Boko Haram fighters attacked an army barracks in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.

Its fighters also looted and torched several villages and towns in the state after launching attacks with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.

Last month, the group was accused of killing at least 29 people in an attack on a rural boarding school in Yobe.
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009 to create a strict Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

Suspended CBN Governor Sanusi Dragged to Court Over Alleged N50 Billion Fraud

Yesterday, shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, dragged the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, accusing him of being involved in an alleged N50 billion fraud.

The plaintiffs, including Adaeze Onwuegbusi, Chijioke Ezeikpe, and Abdullahi M. Sani, filed a suit through their lawyer, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, alleging that Sanusi, as the CBN governor, acted contrary to the provisions of sections 12, 32, 35 and 39 of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, Cap B4 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, by deliberately falsifying the actual solvency/financial state of affairs of Intercontinental Bank Plc and subsequently sold it for N50 billion.

Apart from Sanusi, other defendants in the suit were the Security & Exchange Commission and CBN. 

Among other things, they are expecting the court to:

Determine whether Sanusi, “did not act fraudulently in waiving/writing off the sum of N16.2 billion owed by Mr. Aig-Aigboje Imokhuede and Mr. Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of Access Bank and the sum of N8.9 billion owed by Senator Bukola Saraki and other sums so owed, all totalling over N40bn, in a bid to enable the said Access Bank Plc to fraudulently purchase Intercontinental Bank Plc at a ridiculous sum of N50 billion only, even when the quarterly profit of the said bank was more than N50bn and which Bank at the material time was worth more than N1 trillion, to the detriment of the Plaintiffs as shareholders and investors.

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader and 682 others on trial

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 682 other supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are standing trial in central Egypt.

They face charges including the murder of several policemen during a crackdown on the Islamist movement in August.
Most of the defendants are being tried in absentia and an AFW(Africa's Wealth) official said Mr Badie was not in court for security reasons.
The mass trial in Minya province comes a day after the same court sentenced 528 other Morsi supporters to death.
There has been widespread condemnation of the sentences, which were delivered on only the second session of the trial.
The Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the Brotherhood since the military overthrow Mr Morsi in July. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands of others arrested.
Mr Badie, the Brotherhood's general guide, is being detained along with dozens of other senior leaders of the Islamist movement.
The military stepped in after months of street protests against Mr Morsi - Egypt's first democratically-elected president.
Following Mr Morsi's removal from office the Brotherhood set up protest camps in Cairo, at which Mr Badie was a prominent figure.

Police eventually dispersed the camps, killing hundreds of protesters, and Mr Badie went into hiding. He was detained in August.
Mr Badie's 38-year-old son Ammar was among those killed in the protests.
The Brotherhood and human rights groups denounced Monday's death sentences.
The verdicts must now go to Egypt's supreme religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for approval or rejection.

Kenyan polygamy law

The law is intended to bring civil law, where a man is only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.

But male MPs voted to amend the new marriage bill to allow men to take as many wives as they like without consulting existing spouses.
Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give prior approval.

About 30 of Kenya's 69 female MPs were in the 349-member chamber for the debate but were outnumbered by their male counterparts.
The women walked out in disgust over the matter.
The marriage bill now passes to the president to sign before it becomes law.

Mugabe caps Zimbabwe's 'fat cat' state salaries

President Robert Mugabe has moved to ease public anger in Zimbabwe by capping the pay of "fat cat" managers of state-owned companies.

The 90-year-old had faced growing pressure to act after it was revealed that many executives were being paid up to $500,000 (£300,000) a month.

His government is to cap the pay of the bosses of parastatals to a maximum of $72,000 a year, including benefits.
The average monthly wage for government employees in Zimbabwe is $370 a month.


It was revealed that the head of the struggling Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) was taking home a $37,050 a month, yet the state-controlled broadcaster had failed to pay its workers for more than six months last year.

Other cases came to light - one health insurance company that covers government employees was paying its chief executive a monthly salary of $230,000 while also giving him monthly benefit payments of $305,499.

The government said it intends to recover money that was used to pay salaries that were unjustified but many questions remain over the investigation.
James Maridadi, an opposition MP with the Movement for Democratic Change, accused several government officials of being linked to the scandal and said this was "just the beginning".

Zimbabwe has recovered from hyperinflation and its economic free-fall of several years ago, but its economy is still fragile and it does not have its own currency - it uses eight others as legal tender.

The country is widely seen as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, with Transparency International's latest corruption perceptions index ranking it at 157 out of 177 countries.