Breaking: DR Congo leader Jean-Pierre Bemba sentenced to 18 years in prison by ICC for war crimes and sexual violence

Former vice-president of Democratic Republic of Congo convicted for his part in a campaign of rape and murder in Central African Republic in 2002-3

Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba

Former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and pillage committed by his troops, becoming the highest level official to be handed down a sentence at the international criminal court.

Bemba, wearing a blue suit and tie, watched impassively from the dock during the hearing at The Hague on Tuesday.

Tourism Tour of President Jonathan to Chibok

The Nigerian President will today visit the now globally popular Borno Town of Chibok where over 200 secondary school girls were kidnapped by the dreaded Islamist Terrorists, Boko Haram.

With the the fame of the town (Chibo), President Goodluck Jonathan deserveed  to be there, though the hopes of the Chibok girls are still unknown and very uncertain in the hand of their Boko Haram abductors who are currently abusing them sexually and rapping them of their future too. Action and inaction of the presidency and the click of cultist ruling class of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is what Nigerians are paying for on daily basis.