Dozens of people were wounded with fatalities feared as a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul early Monday and gunmen battled Special Forces in an area housing military and government buildings. The rush-hour explosion sent a plume of smoke into the air above the Puli Mahmood Khan neighbourhood of the Afghan capital and shook buildings up … Read more
Seven persons have been killed onSunday as tens of thousands of protesters in Sudan took to the streets to call for civilian rule. It was the first mass rally since a bloody crackdown on demonstrators — a show of street power despite heavy troop deployments by the ruling generals. The “million-man” march had been seen … Read more
A small twin-engine passenger plane crashed in the US state of Texas on Sunday, killing 10 people, officials disclosed. A spokeswoman for the town of Addison, Texas disclosed that, “The Dallas County Medical Examiner has confirmed 10 fatalities and no survivors”. The National Transportation Safety Board tweeted that it had sent a team to Addison … Read more
Ghanaweb.com has disclosed that four Nigerians, which are yet identified, were allegedly responsible for the kidnap of two Canadian ladies in Kumasi last week. The Canadians were Bailen Chitty, 19 years and Lauren Patricia Catherine, 20 years, all charity volunteers for Youth Challenge International. They were taken as they came out of a taxi … Read more
The Arabic version of Al-Arabiya.net has reported on Wednesday an aborted coup in Sudan designed to upstage the Transitional Military Council. The newspaper, quoted sources in Sudan saying 68 officers have been arrested and put under investigation as a result of a coup attempt. The report claimed that the rebellious officers were those loyal to … Read more
Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language’s official status, eight years after it was preliminarily recognised in a new constitution. The new law is designed to cement use of Berber — alongside Arabic — by government administration, local authorities, public services, schools and in cultural life. Berber, or Amazigh, was … Read more
Botswana’s High Court, in a highly-anticipated verdict, on Tuesday ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, which is outlawed under the country’s 1965 penal code. Judge Michael Elburu “set aside” the “provisions of a Victorian-era” and ordered the laws be amended. In a courtroom packed with activists, the judge emphasised that the current laws oppressed a … Read more
Six people have been confirmed dead as fire swept through a psychiatric hospital for war veterans in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, authorities said Tuesday. Ukraine’s emergency services, stated in a statement that the fire started late Monday evening in one-storey building, said in a statement. “Six people died and four have been hospitalised,” the … Read more
A female pupil had to be immediately airlifted to hospital following a crash on the R102 near Mandeni. One IPSS Medical Rescue agent, Paul Herbst, stated that a school bus that was traveling from Mandeni, collided with an articulated motor vehicle at the R102 and R74 intersection earlier this morning. “All 27 school children who … Read more
Not fewer than seven people died on Tuesday when a boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek island of Lesbos, the coastguard said. Assisted by an EU border patrol boat, the coastguard said it had rescued 57 people and is continuing to search for survivors. No information was given on the nationalities of the migrants. … Read more
More than 100 people have been confirmed killed and as many as 700 injured in the attack last Monday on a sit-in and clashes afterwards, as paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces spread through the city to quell sporadic unrest. Troubling details of rape cases by the RSF have emerged in recent days despite restrictions … Read more
One person has been confirmed dead after a helicopter crash landed into a building in Midtown Manhattan. Emergency crews responded to the incident at 787 Seventh Ave just before 1pm on Monday as smoke was seen from the top of the 54-story building forcing police to order the evacuation of several structures in the area as a … Read more
President Donald Trump said on Monday that a secret provision of the US immigration deal with Mexico will require the approval of that country’s legislature and warned US tariffs will be reinstated if it is not forthcoming. Trump did not say what the provision entails, only that it would be revealed: “in the not too … Read more
Botswana could decriminalise gay sex on Tuesday when its high court is due to rule in a landmark case being watched across Africa after Kenya recently upheld its own anti-homosexuality laws. Homosexual acts are outlawed in Botswana — one of Africa’s most stable, democratic nations — under the country’s penal code of 1965. An unnamed … Read more
A 22-year-old student teacher, who started her internship at a Mitchells Plain school last week, has been reported killed on the second day of her new job by a speedter. The pretty young woman was interning at Northwood Primary School in Woodlands and was on her way to work when she was hit by an … Read more
Unidentified terrorists have massacred about 100 people in a village in the central part of Mali, the country’s Ministry of Defence disclosed. The attack happened on Sunday in Dogon village in central Mali, mayor of Bankass, Moulaye Guindo said on Monday. Sunday’s attack took place in the Sangha district, where Fulanis from the neighboring Bankass … Read more
India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, made an unexpected visit Sunday to a Colombo church bombed during the Easter suicide attacks on his first trip to neighbouring Sri Lanka since his election triumph. Modi’s cavalcade made a detour to St Anthony’s shrine on the way to President Maithripala Sirisena’s sea-front office in the capital, where a … Read more
Young Sudanese protesters in T-shirts and jeans dump bricks in a pile to create a makeshift barricade in a Khartoum street — but they are playing a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. They disperse as dozens of riot police storm in on pickup trucks. Officers in blue fatigues fire gunshots into the air as demonstrators sprint … Read more
The immigration agreement between Mexico and the United States that averted US tariffs on Mexican imports has a clear beneficiary, experts say: human traffickers. Under the pact reached Friday night, Mexico will deploy its recently created National Guard along the border with Guatemala, as well as dismantle groups that smuggle people across borders. However, experts … Read more
A gun battle between supporters of India’s ruling right-wing party and a regional rival has killed four people in West Bengal, police said Sunday, as violence raged in the tinderbox state. At least 18 others were injured in the clashes that broke out Saturday in the eastern state that has been on edge since Prime … Read more