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...
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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...
Ethiopia’s cabinet on Tuesday declared a nationwide state of emergency after Tigrayan rebels seized two crucial towns in an apparent push towards the capital, state-affiliated media reported. “The state of emergency is aimed to protect civilians from atrocities being committed by the terrorist TPLF group in several parts of...
Tesla shares sunk in early trading on Tuesday after founder Elon Musk cast doubt on a deal to supply Hertz with rental cars. The Hertz announcement last week of an agreement for Tesla to supply the car rental firm with 100,000 of its electric autos helped push Musk’s company...
At least 19 people were killed in a road accident in Ashanti Region of Ghana, police confirmed Tuesday. The deaths occurred when a truck collided head-on with a bus around the Abofuor Forest near Kumasi early Monday. “All passengers on board the Sprinter bus, two drivers, and their mates...
At least five people on Tuesday were killed when a cargo plane crashed in the Maban area of Upper Nile state in South Sudan. Kur Kuol, director-general of Juba International Airport, said that the ill-fated cargo plane that crashed at the eastern side of the Nile River was taking...
Israeli archaeologists have found a gold ring dating back to over 1,300 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Tuesday. The 5.11-gram ring, set with an inlay of a silica purple stone called amethyst, has been unearthed in an excavation at the city of Yavne in central...
More than 100 world leaders have promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal. Brazil – where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down – was among the signatories on Tuesday. The pledge includes almost £14bn ($19.2bn) of public...
Multiple mediation efforts are underway one week after the military coup in Sudan, UN Special Representative for the country, Volker Perthes, told journalists in New York on Monday. Speaking from the capital, Khartoum, Perthes said the situation on the ground was “stable but very tense” in the wake of...
No fewer than 62 journalists were killed just for doing their jobs in 2020, according to UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The UN agency stated that between 2006 and 2020, over 1,200 professionals lost their lives the same way and nine out of ten cases, the killers go...
US President Joe Biden on Monday apologised to world leaders for his predecessor Donald Trump’s withdrawal from a global climate accord and said fighting the crisis should be seen as an economic opportunity. In a reference to Trump, who withdrew from the Paris climate deal on world action to...
Queen Elizabeth II on Monday appealed to world leaders to work together in “common cause” against climate change to “solve the most insurmountable problems”. The statement, delivered in a video message to the COP-26 conference in Glasgow came after a day of speeches from world leaders warning of the...