COPENHAGEN: Denmark yesterday suspended adoptions from Nigeria, a month after Nigerian police raided a so-called “baby factory” where young girls sell their newborns to couples who are unable to conceive.
“Today I have decided to suspend all adoption from Nigeria with immediate effect,” Denmark’s minister for children, gender equality, integration and social affairs, Manu Sareen, wrote on Twitter. “We must do everything we can to protect the children and to give the families peace of mind,” he said in a separate statement.
Bosnia fires security minister over unrest
SARAJEVO: Bosnia’s Security Minister was dismissed yesterday for failing to curb violence during protests over graft and unemployment in February, the worst unrest since the end of the country’s 1992-95 war.
The initiative to fire Fahrudin Radoncic over the violence, in which several hundred people were injured, most of them police, was launched in the national parliament by the main Muslim Bosniak party SDA. The violence has since subsided, though small protests continue.
Slovenian PM ready to resign
for snap polls
LJUBLJANA: Slovenia’s centre-left Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek said yesterday she was ready to resign after losing her party’s leadership but only if that leads to polls before the summer.
“I’m ready to resign, if there is a way to call elections before the summer,” Bratusek told journalists following a meeting with President Borut Pahor.
The pair discussed the fallout of her defeat by Ljubljana mayor Zoran Jankovic for the leadership of the ruling Positive Slovenija (PS) party. “Early elections are a fact,” Bratusek said, adding she would first discuss with the three coalition parties’ leaders over the way to carry them out without harming the interests of Slovenia.
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