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United Nation (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called for international intervention/aid to “avert any threats to food security, livelihoods, malnutrition”. It requires 10 m U.S dollars. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are struggling with “unprecedented” and “devastating” swarms of the food-eating locusts, the FAO has said, fearing locust numbers could grow 500 times by […]
Lawmakers seeking to remove U.S President Donald Trump (Republican Party) from office hope to hear testimony from his former National Security Adviser John Bolton as Democrats stand firm refusing any deal to allow the son of former US Vice-President Joe Biden to be called as a witness. Mr Trump is accused of abuse of power […]
West Africa – Suspected Islamist militants have killed 25 soldiers,six others wounded in an attack on an army post in west Niger near its border with Mali on Thursday. It was not immediately revealed who was responsible for the attack on the post at Chinagodrar, about 130 miles (209 km) north of the capital Niamey, […]
By APN Reporter Kabale An American tourist aged 65 was on Thursday stung to death by wasps while tracking gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National park. The deceased, Gloria Suemiller, a resident of Oklahoma City was stung to death by wasps at around 10:30AM while at Katonvi, Ruhija zone. The police spokesperson for Kigezi region, Elly […]
Seventh – day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official has said. Most of the victims died instantly when lightning hit the church in the southern district of Nyaruguru, local mayor Habitegeko Francois has said. Two people died from their injuries, and 140 people were rushed to hospital and health centers. Lightning also killed […]
BY AGENCIES A passenger plane carrying at least 60 people has crashed in a mountainous area of central Iran. The plane came down in the Zagros Mountains near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province while flying between Tehran and the south-western city of Yasuj. “All emergency forces are on alert,” an emergency services spokesman […]
South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned his office with immediate effect. He made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening. Earlier, Mr Zuma’s governing ANC party told him to resign or face a vote of no confidence in parliament on Thursday. The 75-year-old has been under increasing pressure […]
By NBC News The eldest son of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro took his own life Thursday while living on the island his father ruled as president for more than 40 years. Two Cuban government sources confirmed to NBC News that Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, 68, died on Friday morning following months-long treatment “for a […]
