CONVICTED WAR CRIMINAL LUBANGA ANNOUNCES NEW REBEL GROUP IN EAST CONGO.(PHOTO).

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 Convicted war criminal Lubanga announces new rebel group in east Congo A convicted war criminal based in Uganda has announced a new rebel movement intent on toppling the government in eastern Congo's Ituri province, creating another potential security threat in the war-scarred region, Reuters reported. The formation of the Convention for the Popular Revolution (CPR) by Thomas Lubanga, an Ituri native, comes as Congo's army faces an unprecedented advance by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels elsewhere in eastern Congo. The International Criminal Court secured its first conviction against Lubanga in 2012 on charges of recruiting child soldiers and sentenced him to 14 years in prison. He was released in 2020 and President Felix Tshisekedi appointed him to a task force to bring peace to Ituri. But in 2022 he was taken hostage for two months by a rebel group, which he blames on the government, and is now based in Uganda. In written responses to questions from Reuters, Lubanga said the CPR h...

A BOMB EXPLODED AT THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP,IN ADAMAWA STATE TODAY.

                       Today friday,a bomb hit a Nigerian Internally displaced Persons {IDP} camp in the outskirts of Adamawa state capital Yola.According to a spokesperson with the National Emergency Managemnt Agency said the bomb blast which is the first such attack on any IDP camp in Nigeria,went off at an IDP camp in a school in the village of Malkohi.It is not known yet who the perpetrators of the attack are but all fingers points to the Islamist group,Boko Haram.Three people have now been confirmed to be dead.

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