The Afghan caretaker government’s Ministry of Education has identified and annulled 700 “ghost schools” across the country, the spokesman for the ministry, Mansour Ahmad Hamza, said. “The Ministry of Education has culled up to 700 ‘ghost schools’ from official lists since the government took power more than two years ago,” the local Television channel Tolonews. […]
Hyenas killed three people between Jan. 1 and Feb. 24 in Sengerema, a district in Mwanza region, northern Tanzania, an official said on Sunday. The carnivore attacked and killed the first victim, a 16-year-old boy, on Jan. 15 when he was collecting firewood, according to the Sengerema district wildlife officer, Paul Ponsian. Also, the other […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Zelenskyy said the number was far lower than estimates given by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. “31,000 Ukrainian military personnel have died in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000, not whatever […]
Organisers have postponed a protest march scheduled for Tuesday against Senegalese President Macky Sall’s controversial move to delay this month’s presidential poll to December. Elymane Haby Kane, one of the march organisers, said he received an official letter from local authorities in Dakar. It stated that authorities banned the march as it could seriously hamper […]
On Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it rescued 442 migrants off the coast of Libya in the past week. IOM said in a statement that from Feb. 4 to 10, 442 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya, including 68 women and 25 children. So far this year, IOM has rescued 1,004 […]
At least two school children died and 20 others sustained injuries in an explosion, on Sunday, in restive Northern Cameroon, according to witnesses and local police. The blast occurred in Nkambe, a town in the region, as schoolchildren were participating in activities to mark National Youth Day. The country has been celebrating National Youth Day […]
Tunisia has arrested 19 people for alleged links to an extremist religious cell, the Tunisian National Guard said in a statement on Friday. The statement, posted on the National Guard’s Facebook page, said the 19 people, were wanted by security and judicial agencies. They had been sentenced to one to 10 years in prison on […]
UNICEF said, on Friday that 700,000 children in Sudan were likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, with tens of thousands who could die. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated the country’s infrastructure. This has prompted warnings of famine and […]
At least two persons died in a fire accident at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cameroon’s Far North Region, officials and local police said on Friday. The fire, which broke out in a tent, on Thursday night, gutted other shelters in the Ndaba locality that hosts the IDPs. Two children, trapped in […]
The Israeli military has killed four people and injured more after bombing a kindergarten hosting displaced Palestinians in the town of Az-Zawayda near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports. The deceased and the injured were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. We will bring you more information on […]