DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A huge cargo ship capsized in Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic on a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping, according to satellite data. The Panama-flagged container ship, MV Ever Given, with a listed owner in Japan, closed to traffic on Tuesday on a narrow …
Read More »John Magufuli: Did Tanzania’s coward-denying leader die of coronavirus? That’s one of the many questions that leave him behind
Magufuli was undergoing treatment at a Tanzanian hospital on Wednesday evening, Samiya Suluhu Hassan said. However, opposition leaders have insisted that Magwifli died in Covid-19 at least a week ago. In an interview with a Kenyan broadcaster on Thursday, Tundu Lisu of the Chadema opposition party said Magwifli died of …
Read More »‘Practical genocide’: Doctors say rape is being used as a tool of war in Ethiopia
According to the medical records and testimonies of survivors shared with CNN, women are gangraped, drugged and held hostage. In one case, the woman’s vagina was filled with stones, nails and plastic, according to a video seen by CNN and the testimony of a doctor who treated her. CNN has …
Read More »Gunmen have killed at least 58 people in attacks on Niger market vendors
NIMAY, Niger (AP) – Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a group of civilians returning from a market day in a volatile corner of Niger, killing at least 58 people and then burning grain to the ground, it said Tuesday. Immediate responsibility for Monday’s massacre was not claimed, although extremists affiliated with …
Read More »Nigeria school kidnapping: New video of abducted college lodge students in Kaduna state has surfaced
In the footage, which has been widely shared on Facebook, some of the students clearly appeared distressed. In one video, the abducted student calls on the government to co-operate with his captors, while a figure in the background shows a gun to his head and back. According to Kaduna police, …
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