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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Ekeomah Atuonwu Many people struggle in the Kroo Bay slum, where pigs mingle with stray dogs in the shantytown’s debris-strewn alleys that straddle an open sewer. However, the war in distant Ukraine has made life even more difficult. Fuel prices, as well as the prices of staples such as cooking oil and rice, have recently risen sharply […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu In separate attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two soldiers shot dead 15 people, almost all of whom were civilians. This comes after six people were injured when soldiers attempted to make an arrest and threw a grenade into a crowd. According to a South Kivu official, a […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Tuesday, several explosions targeted educational facilities in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, with an explosion at a boys’ high school killing at least six people. The explosions were aimed at the Mumtaz Education Center and the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in Kabul’s western Dasht-e-Barchi district. The first blast occurred as the children were leaving school. A second explosion occurred […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu After severe rains in recent days created floods and mudslides that killed more than 440 people in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) region, rescuers are still looking for scores of people still missing. Thousands of people have been displaced by the floods, which have also affected operations at one of Africa’s largest ports, Durban. […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Lagos State Government has reacted to a reported allegation of sexual abuse involving Chrisland School students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). All complaints are being investigated by the relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, according to a statement released on Monday. They include the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency and […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu An Anglican archbishop has slammed the British government’s plan to send some asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda, claiming that “subcontracting out our responsibilities” to refugees will fail to pass God’s test. In his Easter Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby took an unusually direct political intervention, saying there are “severe […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to a record of a cabinet meeting obtained on Saturday, Kinshasa has condemned the shooting of one of its emigrants by a white US police officer over two weeks ago. Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old whose family apparently relocated to the United States in 2014 to escape the DRC’s civil war, was slain […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The United States has approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale to Nigeria, after lawmakers put the deal on hold due to concerns about possible human rights violations by the Nigerian government. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee both put a halt to the sale of 12 Bell […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Heavy rains and flooding wreaked havoc on South Africa’s eastern coast, killing hundreds of people and destroying homes and roads. Flooding struck the KwaZulu-Natal province, which includes the coastal city of Durban. Roads cracked and deep fissures formed. A massive stack of shipping containers fell into muddy waters. A bridge was washed away, […]
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