MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).
More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...
The 36 year old woman identified as Obiageli Oriuwa,stabbed her husbands younger brother Doctor Ikechukwu Oriuwa to death because she wanted him out of his father's house.She is married to the doctor's elder brother and they both lived in the 52 Ladiga Ajegunle with their wives and children.She had been allegedly fighting him to leave the house with his family because she claimed that the house belonged to her husband,since he was the first son of their father.On that day of the incident,Obiageli allegedly got a knife and stabbed Ikechukwu on the chest and he bled profusely and collapsed.He died before he was taken to a hospital..The mother of four was arraigned yesterday tuesday before Justice Raliatu Adebiyi,High Court Igbosere,following the report of Directorate of Public Prosecution,DPP.The DPP report indicted Obiageli and directed her to face trial over the death of Ikechukwu.Obiageli was kept in prison custoday at Kirikiri after she was charged before a Lagos Magistrate court and her file was sent to DPP for advice.Obiageli allegedly stabbed the 37 year old medical doctor to death at their family house at 52 Ladega street,Ajegunle in Apapa,Lagos state during an arguement between them last year.She was initially arrested by the police at Tolu Division after the incident and the matter was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department SCID,Panti,Yaba,for further investigation.A member of the victim's family,Chineu Oriuwa,earlier alleged that it was not the first time Obiageli attempted to kill Ikechukwu.She had asked the doctor and his family to move out of the family house several times.Chinedu said though the matter was settled between them,Obiageli still coninued to nurse animosity against everybody in the house,including their mother who has now travelled abroad.When the matter came up on tuesday,it was further adjourned till 8th of July for trial.
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