Senegal Bans Night Buses After Crash Killed 40
The Senegalese government decided Tuesday to ban night buses between towns and villages after the death toll in a weekend head-on crash left 40 dead. The import of used tyres from abroad was also outlawed in a list of measures announced after one of the worst road disasters for years, caused by a burst tyre. More than 100 people were also...
Death Toll In Nepal’s Plane Crash At Newly Commissioned Airport Rises To At Least 67
At least 67 people were confirmed dead Sunday after a plane with 72 on board crashed in Nepal, police said, in the Himalayan country’s worst aviation disaster in three decades. Those on board the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop aircraft that plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces and burst into flames in the central city of Pokhara included six...
Rwandan President’s Son Joins Presidential Security Team
Ian Kagame, the son of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, a second lieutenant in the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF), has joined the elite Presidential Guard in the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF). The presidential guard is the army unit that guards Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame and his family. Ian, appeared publicly for the first time taking on his new assignment at the Annual...
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Death Toll Surpasses 16,000
The death toll from the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria rose to more than 16,000 as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of collapsed homes in the stricken zone, Turkey’s disaster management agency said. The agency said 12,391 people had been confirmed killed in Turkey after Monday’s early morning earthquake and series of aftershocks, which brought down...
Boy, 2 Found Dead In The Mouth Of An Alligator
A missing two-year-old boy, Taylen Mosley has been found dead after his body was recovered in the mouth of an alligator. Mosley was reported missing on Thursday after his mother, Pashun Jeffery, 20 was found dead in her apartment in St Petersburg, Florida. According to the Police, she was stabbed multiple times. The child’s father, Thomas Mosley, has since been arrested and...
Sudanese Army Says It Permits Evacuation Of Stranded Foreigners As Fighting Continues
Sudan’s de facto president and commander-in-chief of the army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has agreed to the evacuation of citizens and diplomatic representatives from the embattled country. An army spokesman said in a statement on Saturday that the United States, Britain, France and China would begin evacuating from the capital Khartoum “in the coming hours” using military transport aircraft. Al-Burhan has pledged...
Kenya Commences Autopsies On Bodies Of Cult Followers Who Allegedly Starved To Death
Forensic experts in Kenya on Monday commenced autopsies of over hundred corpses exhumed from mass graves linked to a pastor alleged to have mandated his members to starve to death to see Jesus. “Officially the process of post-mortem of the bodies starts immediately,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told reporters outside a hospital morgue in the coastal town of Malindi. “We are...
US Considers Visa Ban On Uganda Over Anti-Gay Legislation
United States says it's contemplating visa restrictions against officials of Ugandan government and others for what it called abuse of human rights following the signing into law by the country's President, Yoweri Museveni anti-gay laws passed by the parliament, considered as one of the harshest in the world. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he has instructed the State...
Senegal: Nine Feared Dead As Protesters Clash With Police After Sonko’s Conviction
No fewer than nine persons have been confirmed dead in the violent clashes that erupted between supporters of Ousmane Sonko, the opposition leader convicted of "corrupting youth" and the police, the Interior Ministry has announced on Friday. Clashes broke on Thursday shortly after the court verdict which sentenced him to two years Imprisonment. There are fears among his supporters that he...
We’re Now In Charge Of Govt, Soldiers Claim
Soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s government following an apparent coup in the West African nation on Wednesday when members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum. Members of the elite guard sealed off access to the president’s residence and offices in the capital Niamey, and after talks broke down, “refused to release” him, a presidential source said. The soldiers...
