FFK POSTED TO SOUTH AFRICA AS NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 PRESS STATEMENT ON MY AMBASSADORIAL POSTING.  It gives me pleasure to announce the fact that Mr. President has graciously approved my posting as Nigeria's Ambassador-Designate to South Africa.    This came a few days after the initial posting to Germany was announced and after I made a formal representation to the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, that I was not comfortable with Germany for a number of personal reasons and given the fact that I had lived in Europe most of my life I would prefer to go to South Africa which is a country that I had never been to and for which I have so much interest.  I also expressed the fact that I would rather serve in a country that shares some of my convictions, beilefs and values when it comes to world affairs, that has the biggest economy in Africa, that has closer ties to Nigeria and that is more proximate to my political thinking when it comes to foreign affairs and a pan African vision.  I t...

SHIPWRECK OFF DJIBOUTI KILLS NINE MIGRANTS, DOZENS MISSING. (PHOTO).


 Shipwreck off Djibouti kills nine migrants, dozens missing


Nine migrants were killed and 45 were missing after a boat sank off the coast of Djibouti this week, the UN's migration agency said Thursday, AFP reported.


Tens of thousands of migrants use the "Eastern Route" from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula each year in search of work as labourers or domestic workers in Gulf countries.


Last year was the deadliest on record along the route with the International Organisation for Migration recording 922 deaths, double the number for 2024.


"A tragic shipwreck occurred during the night of March 24 off the coast of Djibouti, north of Obock: 9 dead, 45 missing, out of 320 passengers," the IOM said on X.


Most migrants on the route come from Ethiopia and cross the Red Sea at the shortest point from Djibouti to Yemen.

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