A nine-year-old girl was attacked and killed by a crocodile while walking on a riverside path with her sister in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, a search official said on Tuesday. The sisters were walking home after bathing in the Batang Masang river in Agam district on Monday morning when...
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), on Monday launched a comprehensive response plan for the Horn of Africa as more than US$ 138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the region. A third consecutive year of poor rains is posing a major...
North Korea fired two suspected ballistic missiles Monday, Seoul said, its fourth weapons test this month as Pyongyang flexes its military muscle while ignoring offers of talks from the United States. Despite biting international sanctions, Pyongyang has conducted a string of weapons tests this year, including hypersonic missiles, as...
The birth rate in China plummeted to a record low last year, official data showed Monday, as analysts warn that faster-than-expected ageing could deepen economic growth concerns. Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis amid a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and the country’s weakest population growth...
Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died at the age of 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said. “President IBK died this morning at 0900 GMT in his home”...
A Somali government spokesman, Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu, was injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia on Sunday, a police source said. Police spokesman, Abdifitah Aden, said that a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moalimu’s vehicle at a busy Dabka intersection in Mogadishu. “The...
At least half a million chickens have been either killed by a bird flu outbreak in Burkina Faso or culled to prevent the virus from spreading, the West African country announced on Saturday. The outbreak of the highly pathogenic H1N1 strain of avian flu was detected late last year...
A Myanmar junta court has hit ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi with five new corruption charges related to the alleged hiring and purchase of a helicopter, sources close to the case told AFP. The Nobel laureate, 76, has been detained since the February 1 coup last year...
Uganda says the fuel shortage in some parts of the country is due to the interruption in the supply chain at the common border with Kenya. The interruption was caused by transit truck drivers who were protesting charges for COVID-19 tests at the border. Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and...
Indian bomb disposal experts cordoned off a busy flower market in the capital New Delhi Friday after finding an improvised explosive device left in an abandoned bag, police said. “The site is under a police cordon and we have recovered an IED (Improvised Explosive Device),” a police officer told...
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was gunned down during a coup in 1987, was shot at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds, experts have told a long-awaited trial into his killing. Sankara was struck by “at least seven rounds” in the chest, one of which...
Thirteen people were killed and 30 injured when a truck, they were riding in, crashed into a tree and overturned in the southern Philippines, police and local officials said Thursday. Some passengers were thrown from the truck and pinned under it in the crash. The six-wheeler truck was navigating...
A bus station in Mali’s capital stands unusually quiet, with foreign passengers left in limbo after West African countries closed their borders with the military-ruled nation. Africa Tours Trans is one of the main bus firms in the impoverished Sahel state, offering connections to its regional cities as well...
An opposition senator was shot dead in western Cameroon where a bloody insurgency has been waged by anglophone separatists against the state, his party and an official said. Lawmaker Henry Kemende, whose body was found Wednesday, “was killed (overnight) by unidentified armed assailants”, a local communications ministry official confirmed...
Sixteen people were burnt to death on Tuesday when a minibus taxi and an SUV collided on a highway in South Africa’s northeastern Limpopo province, a local official said. The SUV driver lost control after a tyre burst and collided head-on with a 22-seater Mercedes-Benz bus, provincial transport ministry...
United Nations and its partners on Tuesday launched over $5 billion appeal fund to help Afghans in 2022 overcome the humanitarian crisis that emerged after the Taliban takeover. The UN in a statement said “the appeal was launched in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic services in Afghanistan,...
United States (U.S.) surgeons have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a human patient for the first time. A 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease received the organ in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said in a statement. “This organ transplant...
The US Secret Service arrested a 72-year-old man in New York on Monday after he allegedly phoned them threatening to kill ex-President Donald Trump, a criminal indictment showed. Prosecutors in Brooklyn say Thomas Welnicki “knowingly and willfully threatened to kill, kidnap, and inflict bodily harm upon” America’s former president....
President of the European Parliament David Sassoli has died at the age of 65. Sassoli died early Tuesday morning in a hospital in the Italian municipality of Aviano, his spokesman Roberto Cuillo confirmed to dpa. On Monday the EU parliament confirmed he had been admitted to hospital in Italy...
President Joe Biden raised concerns about air strikes in the conflict in northern Ethiopia and about human rights issues during a call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday, the White House said. Biden reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to working alongside the African Union and regional partners to...