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Marriage crises hunt kids of two of Nigeria’s wealthiest families

Emerging reports Thursday say that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, and daughter of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, are facing crisis in their respective marriages

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Emerging reports Thursday say that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son, and daughter of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, are facing crisis in their respective marriages.

In the case of Olujonwo, son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and his wife, Temitope, daughter of billionaire businessman, Kessington Adebutu, the former has dragged his wife before the Ogun State Judicial Service Commission and the Magistrate Court in Lagos Island over allegations of domestic violence meted on him since their marriage was contracted.

In the court papers, Olujonwo accused Temitope of subjecting him to repeated acts of domestic violence since their wedding was contracted in May 2017. He said that Temitope has repeatedly threatened to kill him. According to him, few weeks after their wedding, he found a knife she had kept under their matrimonial bed and had planned to use it to attack him.

Olujonwo’s mother, Taiwo Obasanjo, had made a fuss about the wedding last year when she went to court to try to stop it. Mrs Obasanjo argued that she had received a spiritual warning against her son having a big wedding.

For Dangote’s new son-in-law, Jamil Abubakar, a 22-year old lady, Chiamaka Nwachukwu is alleging that he is the father of her 7-week-old son. She claims Jamil is trying to silence her because he wants nothing to do with her or the baby.

She said she only found out he was getting married to Dangote’s daughter after she was already pregnant with his baby. She also alleges that he wants nothing to do with her and the baby and wants to pay her off so she can leave the country with the baby and never contact him.

“I fear for my safety and that of my baby because this whole situation is becoming too messy and overwhelming,” she wrote, adding, “Let it be known to the general public that should anything bad happen to I or the baby, this man is responsible!!!”.

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UN report estimates 43,000 died in Somali drought in 2022

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A new report released on Monday by the United Nations has estimated that at least 43,000 people died in Somalia’s longest drought on record in 2022, with half of the victims being children under five years old.

The report which is the first official death toll announced in the drought that ravaged large parts of the Horn of Africa, added that more than 18,000 people, and as many as 34,000, are forecast to die in the first six months of this year.

The report which was put together by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Agency and carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, feared that the current crisis is far from over with neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya both facing a sixth consecutive failed rainy season while rising global food prices and the war in Ukraine complicate the hunger crisis.

“Famine is the extreme lack of food and a significant death rate from outright starvation or malnutrition combined with diseases like cholera,” part of the report said.

“A formal famine declaration data shows more than a fifth of households have extreme food gaps, more than 30% of children are acutely malnourished and over two people out of 10,000 are dying every day.”

Responding to the report, the U.N. resident coordinator in Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula, told journalists on Monday that the risk of famine still remains imminent going into the year.

“The death rate was increasing as the year came to a close. The hardest-hit populations are in Bay and Bakool in southwest Somalia and displaced people who have fled to the capital, Mogadishu.”

“Millions of livestock have died in the current crisis compounded by climate change and insecurity as Somalia battles thousands of fighters with al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate, al-Shabab,” he added.

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Gunmen kill nine Chinese nationals at Central African Republic mine

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Armed gunmen have killed nine Chinese nationals and wounded two at a gold mining site in the Chimbolo region of Central African Republic, authorities said on Monday.

The attack on Sunday, according to the Mayor of Bambari Town which oversees Chimbolo, Abel Matipata, occured when the gunmen stormed the mining site and overpowered the guards before opening fire indiscriminately.

The attack came a few days after gunmen kidnapped three Chinese nationals in the country’s west near the border with Cameroon, which prompted the CAR President, Faustin Archange Touadera, to plan a trip to China in a bid to reassure investors.

Local media reports that the assault on the Chimbolo gold mine began around 5 a.m. at the site which was launched just last week.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), which is active in the area and regularly launches attacks on the country’s armed forces, according to local media.

However, the CPC, an alliance of rebel groups aligned with former President Francois Bozize, in a statement,has blamed the attack on Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group.

Its spokesman, Mamadou Koura, said the allegations by the government that it was behind the attack were false.

He claimed that Russian mercenaries had planned the attack “with the goal of scaring Chinese who have been present long before the Russians settled in this part of the country.”

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