■ Nigeria
Panel to investigate governor
A judge on Monday established a panel to investigate allegations of corruption by the governor of oil-producing Bayelsa state, who fled money-laundering charges in London last month. Bayelsa Chief Judge Emmanuel Igoniwari said the panel had three months to investigate eight charges levelled at Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha by some state legislators in an impeachment notice. "You should never allow yourselves to be kicked or tossed about because you will incur the wrath of Bayelsans, Nigerians and the Almighty God," Igoniwari told the seven-member panel at its inauguration in the state capital Yenagoa on Monday.
■ Iraq
20 bodies found
Police said yesterday they had found the bodies of 20 people dumped in two separate locations in an area of western Iraq well-known for insurgency violence. Eleven men in civilian clothes were found on Monday dumped next to the main highway that links Baghdad to the border with Jordan in Iraq's west, police said. The bodies were found near the town of Rutba, 370km west of Baghdad, in the mainly Sunni Arab desert province of Anbar. The bodies all had their hands tied and the men appeared to have been killed three days ago. Their identities were not clear.
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