A Nigerian activist, Elizabeth Obueza, who sought asylum in Japan, is reportedly being held in solitary confinement at a detention centre in capital Tokyo for the past two weeks.
The United Nations’ Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has announced that a total of 145 child soldiers, who were fighting for two rebel groups in South Sudan have been released.
The Gambia says it will pull of the International Criminal Court, ICC, after accusing the tribunal of persecuting and humiliating Africans. The small West African nation joins South Africa and Burundi in withdrawing from the court.
At least 59 cadets and guards have been killed in an attack by militants on a police college in the Pakistani city of Quetta between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
