Tanzanian authorities said on Monday that they intercepted a fuel tanker ferrying 65 Ethiopian illegal immigrants in the southern highlands, an official said. Majid Mwanga, the Mlele District Commissioner in the southern highlands region of Katavi, said officials from the Immigration and Tanzania Forest Services Agency intercepted the empty fuel tanker at around 1.00 p.m. […]
Members of ECOWAS Parliament were divided over taking military action as an option to tackle the political situation in Niger Republic. About 22 parliamentarians participated in the virtual extraordinary meeting, on Saturday, to discuss the political crisis in Niger. Some of them called for actions that would nip in the bud of military incursion into […]
Officials of Colmar City have confirmed 11 people dead, on Wednesday, following a fire earlier in the day at a holiday home for disabled people in Wintzenheim, northeastern France. Nathalie Kielwasser, deputy prosecutor of Colmar, said all people sleeping on ground floor of the two-storey building managed to escape. Five of those who lived on […]
From Our Correspondent The Federal Government has imposed a new set of sanctions on groups, organisations and individuals that may be supporting the military junta in the Republic of Niger. Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to President on Media and Publicity, announced this while briefing State House Correspondents, Tuesday in Abuja. Ngelale said President Bola Tinubu […]
Four fishermen have gone missing after huge waves hit their boats and sank in waters off Indonesia’s East Java province, according to an official of the local search and rescue agency on Tuesday. A rescue team is still searching for the people who got missing on Monday evening, Yoni Fariza, the coordinator at Trenggalek Search […]
At least 10 cars of a passenger train derailed in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, on Sunday, killing at least 30 passengers. More than 100 other people also sustained injuries, government and police officials said. While confirming the casualties, Sindh’s Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said nine cars have been cleared. Shah added that a […]
Unrest in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region has displaced at least 12,000 people, a UN agency said Friday. In its Ethiopia Situation Report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) announced that at least 12,000 people were displaced due to recent violence in Gambella. These people, it said, are requiring humanitarian assistance. […]
A fire at a hospital in western Germany late on Thursday night injured 28 people, five of them seriously, according to local police. The fire broke out in a patient’s room in the hospital in Hemer, a town about 30 kilometres southeast of Dortmund. Staff quickly began evacuating other patients from the hospital, according to […]
Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum has warned of “devastating” consequences for the world if the coup against him succeeds. Bazoum gave the warning as he called on the international community to return his government to power. He was deposed last week by the Nigerien military. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Bazoum said the […]
Mozambique’s fisheries production reached 218,000 tons in the first half of 2023, an official announced in Maputo, on Monday. Artisanal fishing accounted for around 95 per cent, followed by industrial and semi-industrial fishing at four per cent. Aquaculture accounted for one per cent, Lidia Cardoso, Minister of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries. Cardoso announced the […]