South Korea’s acting president faced an impeachment vote today as the country struggled to shake off political turmoil sparked by his predecessor’s martial law.
A prison riot in Mozambique’s capital Maputo has left 33 people dead and 15 injured. The country’s police general commander, Bernardino Rafael stated this, as civil unrest linked to October’s disputed election continues.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry for Emergency Situations said that 25 people had survived the crash of a passenger jet with 67 people on board in the west of the country. According to preliminary information, the ministry disclosed on Telegram, there are 25 survivors, of whom 22 have been hospitalised. Health officials had earlier reported that 14 survivors […]
A powerful blast has ripped through an explosives plant in northwest Turkey killing 12 people and injuring three others. Read Also: PCNGI links Benin gas explosion to unapproved cylinder The local Governor said the blast took place at 8:25 am, 0525 GMT, at a section of the plant, the governor said, adding that that part […]
South Sudan is facing a completely overwhelming influx of refugees from war-torn Sudan as well as a rapidly growing cholera epidemic.
A US court has found a Nigerian US-based man, Oluwole Adegboruwa, and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, guilty of masterminding a multi-million dollar dark web drug trafficking operation, and has sentenced them to a combined 40 years in jail term. This was revealed in a statement obtained on the website of the United States Attorney’s Office, […]
Britain has unveiled a package of £225 million in new military aid to Ukraine for next year, including drones, boats and air defence systems.
This was revealed in a communiqué issued at the end of the 66th ordinary session of the authority of the head of state and government meeting held in Abuja. The ECOWAS bloc of 15 countries had previously planned to launch the currency in 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic caused delays and set a new launch […]
At least seven people have been killed in an attack in central Mali. The diocese of the Mopti region and a civil society organisation told reporters that the terrorist attack in Segue village killed a relative of a cleric and six other men. The statement signed by diocese secretary and priest Daniel Togo disclosed that […]
Local media identified the slain judge as Edmundo Pinzon, president of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero state, saying he was shot at least four times in his car outside an Acapulco courthouse. In October, the mayor of the state capital Chilpancingo was killed and decapitated just days after taking office. Weeks later, armed […]