Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera, has declared two days of national mourning in honour of 21 people killed in a horrific road accident on Sunday. They were travelling on the main road connecting the capital, Lilongwe, to the southern city of Blantyre. The 18 women and three babies were killed when …
Read More »Greece hit by “the worst heat wave since 1987”
Greece is hit by “the worst heat wave since 1987”, more than 30 years ago, warned Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, while the mercury was to reach 45 degrees Monday in some regions. Since Thursday, Greece has been going through a scorching period which is expected to peak on Monday and …
Read More »More than 700 migrants rescued off Libya and Malta
They are more than 700 migrants to have been picked up by rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya and Malta this weekend. About 400 were rescued from a vessel that was taking in water in the central Mediterranean, a further 100 were picked up off …
Read More »Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu on official visit to Rwanda
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kigali on her first official visit to Rwanda. She is expected to hold talks and have a joint press conference with President Paul Kagame later in the day. President Samia’s two-day visit is aimed at strengthening relations, and the pair will sign …
Read More »COVID-19: cases surge, second wave of virus in Indonesia peaked
Indonesia’s devastating second coronavirus wave, which saw the Southeast Asian country become the epicentre of Asia’s COVID-19 outbreak, has peaked, its health minister said Monday. Driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant, Indonesia has over the past month been faced with an exponential surge in coronavirus cases that has overwhelmed …
Read More »Egypt: army claims to have killed 89 jihadists in Sinai
Eighty-nine jihadists from the terrorist group Daesh were killed in army operations in the Sinai Peninsula in eastern Egypt, a military spokesman said on Sunday, without specifying when these extremists had been shot. Eight Egyptian soldiers were also “killed or wounded,” added the army spokesman in a statement. “As part …
Read More »Nigeria: doctors on indefinite strike for a salary increase
After the government failed to respond to their grievances, doctors in Nigeria’s public hospitals are set to begin an indefinite strike over poor pay. The National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard) said its members would begin the strike on Monday at 08:00 local time. The union accused the government of …
Read More »Zambia: defence forces deployed to curb violences ahead of polls
Zambian security forces have been deployed to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections amid criticism by the opposition and other groups. The authorization has been given by the country’s president Edgar Lungu. “I have allowed the Zambia Army, Zambia Air Force and Zambia National Service to …
Read More »Niger: 15 soldiers killed in a terrorist attack
Fifteen soldiers have been killed in what Niger’s defence ministry described as a “terrorist attack” in the south-west of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso. According to the defence ministry, soldiers in the Torodi area of the Tillaberi region were ambushed and then hit by an improvised explosive …
Read More »TikTok star shot dead in California movie theater
Anthony Barajas, a celebrity on social network TikTok, died Saturday after being shot in a California movie theater, which left another victim, local police said. The young man, 19, and one of his friends, Rylee Goodrich, were attending a screening of the film “American Nightmare 5: Without Limits” on Monday …
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