Nigeria election: Muhammadu Buhari hails 'vote for change'
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The winner of Nigeria's presidential poll, Muhammadu Buhari, has hailed his victory as a vote for change and proof the nation has embraced democracy.
Mr Buhari also praised outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan as a "worthy opponent" who peacefully relinquished power.
Gen Buhari beat Mr Jonathan by 15.4 million votes to 12.9 million.
Observers have generally praised the election, though there have been allegations of fraud.
Mr Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has become the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria.
Gaza man 'duped' into selling Banksy work
Rabie Dardouna says he did not know the value of a door mural thought to have been painted by the British street artist and had been tricked into a sale
A man in Gaza says he has been duped into selling a valuable work by British graffiti artist Banksy for less than £120 to a local artist.
The street artist is believed to have sneaked into Gaza earlier this year, leaving behind four murals, including one drawn on a metal door that depicted the Greek goddess Niobe cowering against the rubble of a destroyed house. The painting, titled Bomb Damage, was drawn on a door, the last remaining part of a two-storey house belonging to the Dardouna family in northern Gaza.
Unaware of the work’s value, Rabie Dardouna, 33, said on Tuesday that he was tricked into selling the door to an eager local artist for just 700 shekels, or about £118. Banksy’s works have been valued as high as hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Amnesty International reports global 2014 spike in death sentences
World governments issued 500 more death sentences in 2014 than 2013, according to Amnesty International. However, the rights group asserted that other figures show how "the death penalty is becoming a thing of the past."
Amnesty International recorded 607 executions around the world in 2014, a reduction of almost 22 percent compared to the previous year. As usual, this "global" figure excluded numbers for China; Amnesty believes that China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, but says there is not enough reliable data to provide figures.
Just as in 2013, 22 countries were known to have carried out at least one death sentence. Back in 1995, 42 countries conducted capital punishment.
"The numbers speak for themselves - the death penalty is becoming a thing of the past. The few countries that still execute need to take a serious look in the mirror and ask themselves if they want to continue to violate the right to life, or join the vast majority of countries that have abandoned this ultimate cruel and inhuman punishment," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International's Secretary General.Kidnapped in Mozambique: In the Clutches of Rhino Poachers
We traveled to Mozambique to report a story about the region's destructive and illegal TRADE IN
rhinoceros horns. But when photographer Toby Selander and I were taken captive by poachers, we found ourselves staring death in the face.Just a short time ago, I was taken hostage in a small Mozambique village. Now I'm speeding through the bush in a pick-up truck driven by the boss of a criminal gang, his underlings hooting and hollering in the back. They are going to "finish" me, they had told me earlier, and I am convinced that they will stop at the next clearing and beat me to death like a dog. For the first time in my almost 30 years as a correspondent in Africa, I am afraid for my life.
I had arrived in Mozambique with Swedish photographer Toby Selander a few days earlier to report on rhinoceros poaching and the illegal rhinoceros-horn TRADE
. We were hoping to follow the supply chain from the slaughter of the rhinos in South Africa through middlemen in Mozambique to the horns' ultimate buyers in Vietnam.Senior journalists the latest targets of Malaysia's crackdown on civil liberties
Lindsay Murdoch
Weeks after jailing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for five years, Malaysia's government has escalated a crackdown on civil liberties and freedom of speech.
Five senior journalists are the latest targets in a mounting tally of detentions under a draconian sedition law that Prime Minister Najib Razak promised to abolish in 2012, describing it as of a "bygone era."
Critics are comparing sweeping arrests to an infamous 1987 political crackdown by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad that crushed his political opponents.
Senior opposition figure Lim Kit Siang estimates that more than 100 people have been detained over the past week. In February, authorities arrested the popular cartoonist Zunar.
Class act: Mexicans fume over sexist, elitist student video
A video made by high school seniors in Mexico City has become an embarrassment for their school and reminded Mexicans of how the high and mighty act.
MEXICO CITY — A short video circulating on social media and news sites in Mexico has shone an unflattering spotlight on the country’s elite youth.
A group of high school seniors from a privileged Catholic school in Mexico City released a slick graduation video that’s come under fire for its portrayal of women and its snooty message, as well as its use of an endangered jaguar cub. Critics say the video treats women as props – and sends the message that this class of so-called Mexican “juniors,” or elite youth, gets to party, play, and go on to inherit positions of power.
In Mexico, as elsewhere, rich kids are assumed to get whatever they want. But it’s a particularly sensitive subject here.
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