Sierra Leone Government has requested international medical aid for its overburdened hospitals in the wake of a fuel tanker blast in the capital Freetown that killed more than 100 people. “We desperately need medical material for critical burns cases,” Dr. Moses Batima, deputy director general of the health ministry’s...
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The West African regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday hardened its stance against military-ruled Mali and Guinea, imposing new individual sanctions and calling on both countries to honour timetables for a return to democracy. The Economic Community of West African States “has decided to sanction all those implicated in the...
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has declared three days of national mourning from Monday to Wednesday for the 108 lives lost in a fuel tanker explosion here. During his visit to hospitals treating the victims, Bio said a presidential task force will be set up in the coming...
UN has commiserated with the government and people of Sierra Leone over the explosion of a petroleum tanker in Freetown. UN Secretary-General António Guterres, joined the whole UN system in Sierra Leone in mourning the victims of a fuel tanker collision on Friday night in the capital. Guterres, in...
The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information and Culture disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari would be represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at an Extra-ordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government today in Accra, Ghana on the political situation in the Republics of Guinea and Mali. Today’s Extraordinary meeting, which...
At least 19 people were killed and three injured Saturday in an accident on the highway that connects Mexico City with the central city of Puebla, authorities said. The crash occurred at midday when a cargo truck crashed into several vehicles at a toll booth on the highway. Some...
Mrs Edith Onyemenam, Assistant Comptroller, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire on consular services is commendable. Onyemenam spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the side-lines of the high level segment of the Second Session...
The Presidency Council of Libya on Saturday suspended Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush and temporarily banned her from travelling over mismanagement allegation, but the decision was rejected by the government. Najla Mangoush “shall be temporarily suspended for investigation into reported mismanagement, mainly monopoly of foreign policy without prior coordination with...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was unharmed in an assassination attempt carried out by a drone targeting his official residence on Sunday, the Iraqi military said. The media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement that an unknown drone bomb hit al-Kadhimi’s residency at dawn...
At least 99 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the capital of Sierra Leone late on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, local authorities said. The accident occurred in a busy street in the capital Freetown. According to eyewitnesses, “many people rushed to...
At least eight people have died and scores of others were injured in a crush at Astroworld music festival in Houston, U.S. state of Texas, on Friday night, according to authorities. “The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage and that caused some panic and it...
A fuel tanker exploded late Friday in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, leaving large casualties. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the capital, confirmed the accident on social media on Saturday, calling the scene “harrowing.” The country’s National Disaster Management Agency said on Saturday that they have “so many casualties.” The...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Central African Republic (CAR) government to spare no effort in investigating the “unacceptable attack” which a presidential guard unleashed on a bus in the fleet of the UN mission in the country, MINUSCA. Ten unarmed Egyptian “blue helmets”, who were newly deployed...
A jihadist attack in Niger’s volatile “tri-border” zone with Burkina Faso and Mali has killed dozens of members of a self-defence militia, local sources told AFP on Thursday. The assault took place on Tuesday at Adab-Dab, a village about 55 kilometres (32 miles) from Banibangou in the western region...
A presidential official on Wednesday, said that the Egyptian government will start moving to the country’s new capital, east of Cairo, in December. The new administrative capital, launched in 2015, is the flagship construction scheme in a string of mega-projects undertaken by Egyptian President, Abdel-Fatah al-Sissi. Earlier this year,...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has announced the establishment of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF), dedicated to providing African governments with a liquidity structure on par with international standards. According to a statement from the UNECA on Wednesday, the commission made the announcement at the...
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, is extremely concerned by the escalation of violence in Ethiopia and the recent declaration of a state of emergency. Guterres, in a statement by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric said “the stability of Ethiopia and the wider region is at stake.” The UN chief reiterated...
Militants of Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack against a military hospital in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, according to a statement from the group cited in multiple reports on Wednesday. The attack took place on Tuesday when five members of the IS terrorist group stormed...
No fewer than 18 people were missing after a canoe carrying dozens of people capsized on Bengawan Solo River in Indonesia’s East Java province on Wednesday, a senior disaster agency official said. The canoe was crossing the river in Semambung village at 9:30 a.m. local time when it capsized...