Lagos, Nigeria -- The Dutch Court ruling on the allegations of pollution brought by four Niger Delta farmers against Shell in The Hague, The Netherlands is a victory for the campaign against pollution in the Niger Delta, Sunny Ofehe, Coordinator of the Rotterdam-based organization, Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC) in the Netherlands, said in a press statement seen by the Daily Independent.

Transparency in the fisheries sector regarding both the use of the funds designated for the sector and licensing conditions, is a crucial issue to sustainable fishery, Sid'Ahmed Abeid, President of the artisanal section of the Mauritania National Federation of Fisheries said at the hearing on the EU-Mauritania fishing agreement protocol in Brussels recently.

Gaoussou Gueye is general secretary of the Senegal-based African Confederation of Artisanal Fishing(CAOPA). Gueye, who has been at the forefront for the campaign against illegal unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU) in the sub-region and Africa, evaluates the fisheries sector in the sub-region.

Lagos: “Calabar carnival is a great occasion and one-of-its-kind in Nigeria,” Nkechi Kalu, who sold fez caps, masks and other carnival memorabilia, told the Daily Independent.

Lagos — Medical practitioner and former President of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Chris Ekiyor has tasked the federal government to extend palliatives to victims of flooding in the coastal communities of the Niger Delta.

Here is the full transcript of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2012.

Journalists are victims of the society in which they work, panellists said at the Session on Corruption In the Media Workplace on the third day of the Highway Africa (HA) and Global Forum for Media development (GFMD) world conferences in Grahamstown, South Africa.

The growth of the internet in communication and commerce should give Africa cause to worry about its place on the internet superhighway, panellists have said at the session on Emerging Issues in Global Internet Governance on the third day of the Highway Africa (HA) and Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) world conferences in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Reporting from Grahamstown, South Africa: Delegates from all over Africa have converged on the university town of Grahamstown for the 16th edition of Highway Africa. The conference runs from September 9-11 and features speakers from all over the world including Nigeria’s Declan Okpaleke, three-time winner of the CNN African journalists award, Damilola Oyedele of Thisday and Fola Adele of South Africa’s Human rights commission.

Mexico's state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, better known as Pemex, said it has found a massive new gas reserve in the Gulf of Mexico.

The tense situation between Syria and Turkey became more so on Saturday as military aircraft from both sides appeared prepared for a new confrontation.

If government considers you too fat, can they take away your children

An Indonesian man has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for the crimes of being an atheist and insulting the Prophet Mohammad.

In Mirandola, near Modena in Northern Italy, pictures show scenes of buildings turned into rubble, the result of a second earthquake in a region struck just nine days ago by a previous destructive trembler.

Since 1922 when the first concerted effort was made to reach the top of Mount Everest, some 219 people have perished in attempts to climb the world’s tallest mountain. During that period the overall mortality rate for those attempting to climb the mountain was 1.6 percent. Over the last 25 years, when attempts to scale Everest became more common, the death rate inched up, reaching as high as 3.4 percent depending on the route utilized.