The Somali National Army (SNA), with support from international partners, killed 76 al-Shabab militants and injured several. This is following two-day operations in the Mudug region of central Somalia, officials said on Sunday. The SNA Chief, Ibrahim Sheikh Muhidin, said senior al-Shabab commanders were among the dead during the military onslaught against the al-Qaida-linked terrorist […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) in DR Congo, late on Friday, announced disqualification of 82 candidates in the national and provincial legislative elections. CENI accused the candidates of fraud, corruption, vandalism of electoral materials and incitement to violence. It also axed them for alleged illegal detention of electrical voting devices on the polling day […]
Malawi Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, says the country needs about $6 million to cover the deficit of its cholera preparedness and response plan for November 2023 – October 2024. Chiponda announced this when she updated the nation on the situation of the cholera outbreak. She said the outbreak remains “very low and sporadic” […]
The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 on Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubbles. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the day, but two more deaths were reported in Anamizu, while officials in Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region, held their daily meeting to […]
Container shipping giant, Maersk, has announced it will divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea and the Suez Canal for the “foreseeable future”. Maersk said, on Friday, it took the decision due to the volatile situation in the Red Sea. This is as Yemen’s Houthis continue to attack vessels that pass […]
Eleven artisanal miners are suspected to be trapped underground following the collapse of a shaft at a gold mine. The gold mine collapsed on Thursday in Zimbabwe, state-run The Herald newspaper reported Friday. Zimbabwean Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Soda Zhemu, confirmed the accident happened at Redwing Mine, a gold mine in Penhalonga in […]
Zambia is in talks with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other partners on acquiring cholera vaccines. This is as the waterborne disease rages on in the southern African nation, state media reported on Wednesday. Roma Chilengi, Director-General of the Zambia National Public Health Institute, said the government has been in talks with the WHO […]
Two bombs exploded, killing at least 103 people, on Wednesday, at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said. This is as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the deadliest militant […]
All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350, airliner burst into flames as it skidded […]
An explosion in Beirut, on Tuesday, killed Saleh Arouri, a top official of Hamas, the Palestinian fighters group, and three others, officials with Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah said. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the blast killed four people and that an Israeli drone triggered the blast. Israeli officials declined to comment. If […]