A PRIEST IN ANAMBRA STATE WEDDED A COUPLE YESTERDAY, DESPITE DISPUTES WITH THE BRIDE’S FATHER. (PHOTOS).

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 A priest in Anambra State wedded a couple yesterday, despite disputes with the bride’s father In a video circulating online, the Reverend Father narrated that The father of the bride who is from Nteje had insisted that the wedding should not take place unless his daughter swøre never to associate with his mother whom he has a quarrel with. The conflict arose from past marriage issues between the father and her mother. Before the wedding, the father repeatedly met with the priest, warning that he had already taken the bride's mother to a deity and that the girl must follow him to the shrine to appease that deity before the marriage can go on. For peace to prevail, the priest advised the couple to comply with all the father’s requests so the wedding could proceed, the priest even donated some of the items that the brides father told her to bring to use in appeasing the deity. However, when they reached the shr|ne, the father suddenly changed his demand, insisting the daughter take a...

CLASHES INTENSIFY IN DRC'S BORDER CITY OF UVIRA BETWEEN PRO-GOVERNMENT FORCES AND M23 REBELS. (PHOTO).

Clashes intensify in DRC's border city of Uvira between pro-government forces and M23 rebels


Clashes broke out on Monday near Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo between the M23 rebels and pro-government forces, days after M23 vowed to withdraw from the city, local sources said.


M23 rebels had seized the strategic city near the border with Burundi earlier this month, shortly after the Congolese and Rwandan governments signed a peace deal in Washington that US President Donald Trump hailed as a "great miracle."


But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has since accused Rwanda of violating the peace agreement it signed with its neighbour on December 4, and vowed unspecified "action" in response. Kigali, however, denies, instead claiming that its neighbours, DRC and Burundi, are individually breaching the ceasefire agreement.


The leader of the M23's political branch, Corneille Nangaa, announced that the group would "unilaterally withdraw its forces from the city of Uvira, as requested by the US mediators."


Exchange of gunfire


However, plainclothes M23 members stayed behind in the city, according to local and security sources.


M23 and pro-Kinshasa forces called the Wazalendo traded gunfire on Monday "that could be heard across Uvira", Mafikiri Mashimango, a local civil society leader, told AFP.


People remained indoors for safety and activity in the city was "paralysed", according to a resident contacted by telephone.


Clashes appeared to be focused on surrounding hills and neighbourhoods in the south and southwest of the city, including near the port of Kalundu on Lake Tanganyika, residents reported.


'Media coup'


A bomb landed in Mulongwe, southeast of Uvira, "and bullets are flying above our houses", said a local.


DR Congo's armed forces have called the M23 withdrawal promise "a media coup designed to fool public opinion" and accused the group of re-deploying in the hillsides above Uvira.

 

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