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 […]
New army Zambia finished their last game in the 2023 Women’s World Cup with a consolation prize as they beat Costa Rica 3-1 in a dead rubber in Hamilton, New Zealand, on Monday. Zambia and Costa Rica had already been eliminated after two rounds, with Zambia suffering back-to-back 5-0 defeats. However, Zambia’s first goal in the […]
The death toll from the suicide attack at a political gathering in the Bajaur district of Pakistan’s northwest, on Sunday, jumped to 54. This is as more injured succumbed to their injuries, a police official said on Monday. Additionally, Inspector General of Police Shaukat Abbasm, told the media that 10 of the injured died on […]
Palestinian factions met in Egypt on Sunday to discuss reconciliation efforts amid increasing violence between Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank. The meeting seeks to restore inter-Palestinian unity among various factions, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chaired the meeting. While the two main rival movements, ruling Fatah and Gaza-controlling […]
From Peter Ejiofor Amb. Andrew Idi, Nigeria’s Consul-General to South Africa, has paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Nigerian literary icon, Prof. Bankole Omotoso. TheNewsZenith reports that Omotoso, also known as “Kole Omotoso’’, died on July 19, 2023. Late Omotoso was a Nigerian writer and intellectual, best known for his works […]
At least 16 civilians died in air and artillery strikes at a neighbourhood in Omdurman city, west of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on Tuesday, a resistance committee said. “The civilians died in this senseless war at the Ombada neighbourhood in Omdurman,” the Ombada’s Resistance Committee, a popular youth group, said in a statement. It added […]