Ekeomah Atuonwu The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) armed group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed or injured 30 people at an alcohol-sold market in Nigeria’s Taraba state, expanding the area where the ISIL affiliate operates in the country. The explosion occurred on Tuesday in the rural town of Iware, and local […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Togo will allow prison visits to resume on Friday, reversing a two-year ban set to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Family visits are important for many detainees, as they allow relatives to bring food, clothing, and medicine, as they are in many African countries. “From Friday, April 22nd, inmates’ parents, friends, representatives […]
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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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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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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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