Category: International News

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1,078 total views, 82 views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Mogadishu, Somalia, Jul 13 – At least 12 people were killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a security official said Saturday. “The security forces are in control now and the last terrorist was shot and killed”, Mohamed Abdiweli, a security official, said. “There are dead bodies and wounded people strewn inside the hotel and we cannot give exact detail of the casualties but we have confirmed so…

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2,060 total views, 77 views today BY KORIR JUMA,NAIROBI,8TH JULY 2019-Azam Media Group in Tanzania is mourning the deaths of its 7 crew members who died on Monday on  their way to Chato through a tragic accident . Three other people sustained injuries during the crash that reportedly occurred when the vehicle they were travelling in collided head on with a lorry. The deceased  were scheduled to cover an event officiated by President John Pombe Magufuli on Tuesday. The 5 Azam Media crew members who died in the crash, according to sources…

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1,290 total views, 2 views today BY AFP,THE HAGUE, 8TH JULY 2019-International Criminal Court judges on Monday convicted Congolese rebel chief Bosco “Terminator” Ntaganda of war crimes including directing massacres of civilians and rape, in a badly-needed victory for prosecutors in The Hague. Ntaganda, 45, was a “key leader” who gave orders to “target and kill civilians” in Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile, mineral-rich Ituri region in 2002 and 2003, head judge Robert Fremr said. The atrocities included a massacre at a village where people including children and babies were disembowelled or…

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1,711 total views, no views today BY AFP,Khartoum,5TH JULY 2019-Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders reached an agreement on the disputed issue of a new governing body Friday, in a breakthrough power sharing accord aimed at ending the country’s months-long political crisis. The landmark agreement came after two days of talks following the collapse of the previous round of negotiations in May over who should lead the new ruling body — a civilian or soldier. “The two sides agreed on establishing a sovereign council with a rotating military and civilian (presidency)…

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2,657 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, TUNIS,Tunisia, Jun 27 – A second suicide attack Thursday in the Tunisian capital on a base of the national guard wounded four security personnel, the interior ministry said, after a first blast targeting police injured five people. “At 11:00 am (1000 GMT) an individual blew himself up outside the back door” of the base, wounding four security personnel, ministry spokesman Sofiene Zaag told AFP   Loading…

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3,431 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, ADDIS Ababa, Ethiopia, Jun 23 – Ethiopia’s army chief of staff has been shot, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on television Sunday as the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup in a regional state of this Horn of Africa nation. Abiy took to national television in the early hours of the morning dressed in military fatigues and announced that army chief Seare Mekonnen had been shot, an AFP correspondent said. His condition was unknown. The internet was cut in Ethiopia, and more…

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2,963 total views, no views today BY REUTERS ,17TH JUNE 2019-Former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi has died in court, state television reported on Monday. It said Mursi had fainted after a court session and died afterwards. Mursi, a top figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, was toppled by the military in 2013 after mass protests against this rule. He had been serving a seven-year sentence for falsifying his candidacy application for the 2012 presidential race. Loading…

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1,257 total views, no views today BY AFP,Mogadishu,15TH JUNE 2019-A car bomb went off Saturday at a checkpoint near the Somali parliament, killing eight people and injuring 16, medical and police sources said. “We have confirmed eight people killed and 16 others wounded in the blast,” the private Aamin Ambulance service said. A second blast on a key road leading to the airport of the Somali capital Mogadishu did not cause any casualtie Loading…

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516 total views, 2 views today BY CNN,KHARTUM,6TH JUNE 2019-The Sudan death toll from Monday’s attack on the sit-in of pro-democracy protesters has risen to 100, after 40 bodies were recovered from the River Nile, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD). Sixty people were reported to have been killed in the military crackdown in the capital Khartoum, before scores of bodies were found dumped in the river by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), said the CCSD, which is close to the protesters. The head of Sudan’s ruling military…

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623 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS, 5TH JUNE 2019-More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 10 months, officials have said. Two thirds of the cases have been fatal, the health ministry added. The outbreak in the east of DR Congo is the second biggest in history, with a significant spike in new cases noted in recent weeks. But health workers’ attempts to contain the outbreak has been hindered by mistrust and violence. Despite the fact that more…

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3,025 total views, no views today BY VOA,,27TH MAY,2019-Authorities in western Congo say at least 30 people are dead and another 200 are missing after a boat sank on a lake. Simon Mboo Wemba, the mayor of Inongo, told The Associated Press on Sunday night that many of those aboard the boat that sank on Lake Mai-Ndombe were teachers. The mayor says they had traveled to collect their salaries by boat because roads in the region are so poor. It was not immediately known how many people were aboard the boat…

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3,850 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Pretoria, South Africa, May 25 – Cyril Ramaphosa takes the oath of office on Saturday as president of South Africa, facing a brew of expectations and scepticism after vowing to reform the country and revive its economy. Foreign heads of state will be among 36,000 people expected to witness the ceremony at a rugby stadium in the capital Pretoria. The 66-year-old leader was unanimously elected by parliament after his African National Congress (ANC) won legislative elections on May 8, winning 230 of the 400…

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3,271 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, PRETORIA, South Africa, May 9 – South Africa’s ANC was leading in early official results on Thursday following the first electoral test of whether President Cyril Ramaphosa has reinvigorated support for the ruling party. With just over a fifth of voting districts tallied, the Election Commission count put the African National Congress ahead, with its closest rival the Democratic Alliance trailing at a distant 26 percent. Ramaphosa, 66, took over last year after the African National Congress (ANC) forced then-president Jacob Zuma to…

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3,273 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS,MAPUTO,7TH MAY,2019-Mozambique has decided to set up a special academic calendar for students affected by Cyclone Kenneth, which hit the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula last month. Forty-three people have died and 70 schools have been destroyed across both provinces, affecting more than 22,000 children. “Students in the storm-hit areas lost 10 days of classes,” said Mozambique’s Deputy Minister of Education Armindo Ngunga when he announced the calendar change on Monday. He added that extra assistance would be provided to allow…

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1,082 total views, no views today BY SOURCES,2ND MAY 2019-Tanzanian tycoon , investor , author and philanthropist Reginald Mengi has died aged 75. Two of his media outlets, ITV and Radio ONE, on Thursday morning confirmed that Mr Mengi, the chairman of Confederation of Tanzania Industries, IPP Gold Ltd, passed on in Dubai. Loading…

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1,046 total views, no views today JUBA, South Sudan, April 18, 2019/ — Thousands of people in South Sudan have received relief from a food security project which is addressing the nation’s severe food and nutrition needs. The South Sudan Short-Term Regional Emergency Response Project (STRERP) was launched in December last year by the government with a $43.57 million grant from the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org). The World Food Programme is implementing the project. To date, WFP has succeeded in procuring 8,500 MT of food, representing about 85 percent of the…

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1,002 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS,17TH APRIL,2019-About 150 people are missing after the boat they were travelling in sank in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, President Felix Tshisekedi has said. A total of three bodies had been recovered, 33 passengers had been rescued and the “provisional toll is 150 people missing”, his office quoted him as saying in a tweet in French on Tuesday night. The president was “very saddened” by the disaster, and was “following the situation closely in order to identify…

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1,145 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS 16TH APRIL 2019-Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has promised to abolish the death penalty so that the country can retain its membership of a group of Portuguese-speaking nations, AFP news agency reports. Speaking during a visit to Cape Verde, Mr Obiang said the the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) has asked Equatorial Guinea to scrap the death penalty, but he did not want to act unilaterally. “So my government will soon put this question to parliament, where my party has…

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1,253 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Vatican City, Vatican City State, Apr 11 – Pope Francis called Thursday for warring South Sudanese factions to respect the latest armistice after a two-day Vatican retreat aimed at shoring up the fragile peace. “I express my heartfelt hope that hostilities will finally cease, that the armistice will be respected,” the pope told President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar at the Vatican. The pontiff said he hoped “that political and ethnic divisions will be surmounted, and that there will be a lasting…

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1,113 total views, no views today BY BBC AFRICA,11TH APRIL2019- Sudan president Omar al-Bashir has stepped down after months of street protests against his leadership, international media reports. There has been no formal announcement about Bashir’s resignation, but local state television said on Thursday morning that the army wass set to make a ‘major announcement’ leading to celebrations on the streets and outside the palace in Khartoum which remains secured by the military. Several international news outlets quoting reliable government sources reported that Bashir had stepped down, with reports indicating that…

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935 total views, no views today By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Khartoum, Sudan, Apr 10 – The Sudanese army was Thursday planning to make “an important announcement”, state media said, after months of protests against longtime leader President Omar al-Bashir. Thousands of Khartoum residents chanted “the regime has fallen” as they flooded the area around army headquarters where protesters have held an unprecedented sit-in now in its sixth day. “The Sudanese army will issue an important statement soon. Wait for it,” the state television anchor said, without giving further details. The protests, which erupted in…

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652 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS,9TH APRIL,2019-Sudan’s Minister of Defence and Vice-President Awad Muhammad Bin-Awf has warned that the army will not allow the country to “slip into chaos”, the state-run Suna news agency has reported. The armed forces were not opposed to the aspirations of protesters, but would not compromise on Sudan’s “security, unity and leadership”, he added. Certain groups were trying to sow discord between the various security agencies, but this would not be allowed, Mr Bin-Awf added. His comments – after a meeting with military…

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990 total views, no views today BY BBC NEWS,ALGIERS,5TH APRIL 2019-Thousands have taken to the streets of the Algerian capital demanding a complete overhaul of the country’s political structure. This is the seventh successive week of Friday protests and Tuesday’s resignation of long-serving President Abdelaziz Bouteflika does not appear to have satisfied the demonstrators. According to the constitution, parliament’s speaker should take over. But protesters want all those associated with Mr Bouteflika to go. The president, who had been in power for 20 years, said this week that he was “proud”…

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1,000 total views, 1 views today BY BBC NEWS,5TH APRIL 2019-The US has revoked the entry visa for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda. The decision is thought to be the US response to Ms Bensouda’s investigation into possible war crimes by American forces and their allies in Afghanistan. The US secretary of state had warned the US might refuse or revoke visas to any ICC staff involved in such probes. Ms Bensouda’s office said the ICC prosecutor would continue to her duties “without fear or favour”. Secretary…

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970 total views, no views today Algerians celebrate Bouteflika quitting BY BBC NEWS 3RD APRIL,2019-Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned after weeks of massive streets protests. Mr Bouteflika, who has been in power for 20 years, had already dropped plans to seek a fifth term as opposition to his rule grew. The powerful Algerian army had called for the 82-year-old to be declared incapable of carrying out his duties. The ailing leader suffered a stroke six years ago and has rarely appeared in public since. He made a rare appearance on…