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GOMA , DR Congo (AFP) — Armed men kidnapped three workers for the International Committee of the Red Cross in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, the aid agency said. The employees — who a local official said were of Congolese nationality — had been sent to work in Rutshuru in the south of turbulent Nord-Kivu province. “We’ve had no news from our three workers” since shortly after 9:00 am Tuesday, ICRC spokeswoman […]
As its protest of sincerity, Kenya has burned 105 tons of ivories on Saturday for the largest scale of ivory destruction in African history. The burned ivories are worth about 100 million U.S. dollars. The Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has done the lighting in person to further emphasize the sincere determination of the nation in its fight against elephant poaching. Of the 450,000 to 500,000 heads of elephants now roaming the African continent, more than […]
GAMBELA,Ethiopia (AFP) — Clashes between different ethnic groups in west Ethiopia have left 14 dead, while UN and MSF offices were targeted by angry protesters, local security service sources said. The violence was sparked after an NGO car with an Ethiopian driver ran over and killed two children from the Nuer ethnic group in a camp for South Sudanese refugees on Friday, the sources told AFP. In response, a group of refugees attacked Ethiopians living […]
RIYADH,Saudi Arabia (AFP) — More than 800 members of Al-Qaeda were killed in a military offensive against the group in the south of Yemen, the Saudi-led Arab coalition operating in the country said Monday. “The operation resulted… in the death of more than 800 Al-Qaeda members and some of their leaders, while some others fled,” coalition commanders said in a statement published by SPA, the official Saudi news agency. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
by Shingo Ito TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Nine people were killed after a powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, collapsing homes, sparking fires and injuring hundreds, officials said Friday as rescuers worked through the night to find residents feared trapped in rubble. Tens of thousands of people reportedly fled their homes and television footage showed damaged buildings, buckled roads and lumps of broken concrete in the streets after the 6.5-magnitude quake struck the southwestern island of Kyushu. […]
Reuters – A six-storey building under construction collapsed in Uganda’s capital Kampala on Monday, leaving at least one dead. Seven people have so far been taken out from the rubble. The injured have been rushed to hospitals around Kampala. An unknown number of people are believed to be still trapped underneath the rubble. Some of the trapped have made phone calls to their family members and friends. A witness Hope Erumana describes the incident: “What […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Countries and mega-cities across Asia are highly exposed to natural hazards ranging from cyclones to earthquakes, but people in sub-Saharan Africa are more vulnerable, according to a report released Wednesday. Nearly 1.4 billion people in South Asia — India, Bangladesh, Pakistan — face at least one major threat from Nature, especially flooding, severe storms boosted by rising seas, and quakes. In the case of Bangladesh, 100 percent of its population is […]
by Peter MARTELL Nairobi, Kenya (AFP) — The many ways people have died during South Sudan’s two-year civil war are well-documented, but the number killed is unknown. Men, women and children have been shot, speared, burned, castrated, hung, drowned, run over, suffocated, starved and blown up, their corpses abandoned where they fell, bulldozed into mass graves or, in at least one case, eaten in ritual cannibalism. But the UN has stuck to a guesstimate of 10,000 […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) — Beleaguered South African President Jacob Zuma Tuesday faced a no-confidence vote in parliament for a second time in less than a year and a legal bid to reinstate corruption charges against him. The mounting pressure on the president comes against a background of economic crisis sparked by his firing of two finance ministers within days in December. The fallout was followed by a public row between the respected new Finance Minister […]
CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Cairo security directorate on Thursday (February 18) night after a policeman shot dead a man in the street, in the latest outburst of anger over alleged police brutality in Egypt. A statement from the Cairo security directorate said the policeman had shot dead a driver after an argument and was forced to flee a mob of local people who attempted to catch and […]
BENI SUEF, Egypt (Reuters) — Over 100 people were wounded when a train crashed into concrete south of Cairo in the early hours of Thursday morning (February 11), according to Al-Ahram state media. Tens of ambulances were rushed to the scene to treat the wounded, however local news reports said that the injuries were minimal. The train was headed from Aswan to the capital Cairo. The train collided with a concrete block which led it […]
DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa, military and emergency officials said on Wednesday (February 10). The attack occurred 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday (February 9), but a breakdown in […]
