FULHAM PROMOTED TO ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

FULHAM PROMOTED TO ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Wayne Lumbasi Fulham will be playing Premier League football next season after securing a promotion from the Championship. Victory over Preston was enough to secure a safe return to the topflight after an exceptional season at Craven Cottage. Two goals from Aleksandar Mitrovic – who has now scored 40 in the Championship alone this campaign […]

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 ARSENAL STUN CHELSEA IN THE LONDON DERBY

ARSENAL STUN CHELSEA IN THE LONDON DERBY

Wayne Lumbasi Arsenal got their top four chase back on track with a thrilling 4-2 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. There were banks of empty seats at Stamford Bridge, in what was Chelsea’s first home game with only season ticket holders in attendance since government sanctions meant the club were unable to […]

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 NETFLIX LOSES SUBSCRIBERS, BLAMES PASSWORD SHARING

NETFLIX LOSES SUBSCRIBERS, BLAMES PASSWORD SHARING

Lisa Mugo Netflix has lost 200,000 USA subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 alone, making this the biggest drop in subscribers the entertainment company has had in a decade. The company released a statement to its shareholders and attributed the problem to various factors such as password sharing, the Ukraine-Russia war and competition from other movie and […]

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 SIX SENEGALESE MIDWIVES CHARGED OVER PREGNANT WOMAN’S DEATH

SIX SENEGALESE MIDWIVES CHARGED OVER PREGNANT WOMAN’S DEATH

Ekeomah Atuonwu Following the death of a pregnant woman that sparked nationwide outrage in Senegal, six midwives have been charged for the death according to their lawyer on Wednesday. AEM reported that Astou Sokhna who was nine months pregnant, died in a public hospital in early April in the northern town of Louga after she repeatedly pleaded with doctors to perform a […]

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 DR CONGO: NUN OVERCOMES BLACKOUTS WITH HOMEMADE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT

DR CONGO: NUN OVERCOMES BLACKOUTS WITH HOMEMADE HYDROELECTRIC PLANT

Ekeomah Atuonwu Sister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of her day in gumboots, a white veil tucked under a builder’s hat, manning the micro-hydroelectric plant she built to overcome daily electricity cuts in her town of Miti in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. She works around the clock with a team of nuns and engineers, greasing machinery and checking the dials of […]

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 BRAZIL’S INDIGENOUS LANDS BLOCK DEFORESTATION-NEW STUDY

BRAZIL’S INDIGENOUS LANDS BLOCK DEFORESTATION-NEW STUDY

Avellon Williams BRAZIL- According to a new study, reservations in Brazil have acted as a barrier to deforestation over the past three decades, although the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. According to a map from Map Biomas, a joint project from various environmental groups, universities, and startups, just 1.6 percent of the […]

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 THREE DEAD, 19 INJURED IN NIGERIA MARKET BLAST

THREE DEAD, 19 INJURED IN NIGERIA MARKET BLAST

Ekeomah Atuonwu Three people were killed and 19 others were injured in an explosion at a busy market in Nigeria’s Taraba state, which is located in the country’s north. Nigeria is beset by instability, armed gangs and an Islamist insurgency attacking communities in the country’s northern regions. According to Usman Abdullahi, a Taraba police official, the […]

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 STATE-RUN STORES IN CUBA REGULATE FOOD SALES

STATE-RUN STORES IN CUBA REGULATE FOOD SALES

Avellon Williams  Havana, CUBA- As a result of ongoing supply and logistics problems, Havana’s provincial government said Tuesday that its state-run shops will begin to limit food sales to residents of municipalities where they are located. This new regulation, which takes effect on Thursday, is designed to “achieve greater equity and as a result, reduce the […]

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 ABOUT 2,000 KENYAN POLICE ‘MENTALLY UNFIT’ TO SERVE

ABOUT 2,000 KENYAN POLICE ‘MENTALLY UNFIT’ TO SERVE

Faith Nyasuguta  Nearly 2,000 Kenyan police officers are mentally unfit to execute their job, the national police service boss has said. Inspector-General Hilary Mutyambai on Tuesday told a group of bishops and senior clergy that they had found the “surprising” number of cases after medically examining all police officers. Currently, Kenya has about 100,000 police […]

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