According to allafrica.com, the search for the missing tourist who disappeared in Mount Nyangani in Nyanga while hiking with his wife and friends on Saturday resumed on Wednesday after it was temporarily suspended due to bad weather. Zaid Dada (31), his wife and another couple tried to climb Mt Nyangani but when halfway up, the women and the other man gave up while he proceeded by himself. Manicaland provincial police spokesperson Inspector Enock Chishiri confirmed the development and said the helicopter that was dispatched to assist in the search was forced to land after heavy winds disrupted the program. Read article
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upi.com reported that Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a deadly twin car bombing that struck a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on New Year’s Day. A New Year’s Day twin car bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia killed 11 and injured at least 40 others. Somali police spokesman General Mohamed Yusuf Omar Madale announced “The death […]
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monitor.co.ug reported …Mombasa- At least 10 people have been injured in a grenade attack at a Kenyan tourist resort south of the port city of Mombasa, police say. Attackers hurled the device into the Tandoori bar in the town of Diani in the early hours of yesterday. Read Article
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Canada.com reports that less than three years after its creation, the world’s newest country is beginning to fracture along ethnic lines in violence that has killed hundreds of people. What could come next, some warn, is ethnic cleansing. South Sudan’s numerous ethnic groups have battled each other for decades, but for years their animosity was […]
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Thisdaylive.com reports that pirates have attacked an oil products tanker off the coast of Nigeria and kidnapped its Ukrainian captain and a Greek engineer, Greek coast guard officials said on Tuesday. The 6,500 ton Marshall Islands-flaggged MT ALTHEA with 18 crew on board was attacked by a group of 10 pirates, the officials said. The […]
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Attackers hurled a grenade Thursday at British tourists in Kenya but it failed to explode, police said, a rare attack specifically targeting foreign visitors who are key to the economy. The tourists were attacked while traveling by road from the Indian Ocean coastal resort of Diani to Kenya’s main port of Mombasa, a mainly Muslim […]
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According to news24.com, a Chinese tourist who fell into a gorge at Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls while taking pictures has escaped with only bruises, a tourism official said on Wednesday. The tourist named as Wang Shun Xue plunged into the shallow section of the gorge and survived with “only minor injuries,” John Zulu, manager of […]
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South African police on Tuesday discovered explosives inside an overhead luggage compartment on a bus travelling from Zimbabwe, authorities said. This was the second time that explosives were discovered at the South African-Zimbabwean border in one month. The stockpile of 13 blasting cartridges and 13 connectors cap fuses were uncovered during a routine search at […]
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As reported by Catholicculture.org, a French missionary priest was kidnapped in Cameroon on November 13, the Fides news service reports. Father Georges Vandenbeusch, a Fidei Donum priest who has worked in the region for 3 years, was seized by men who are believed to be from Nigeria, and likely members of the Boko Haram terrorist […]
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According to eturbonews.com, around this time of year hoteliers, tour operators and shop owners at Mozambique’s Indian Ocean resort towns are usually busy preparing for a deluge of visitors and tourists. White-sand beaches, pristine coral reefs and luxury hideaways draw travelers from neighboring South Africa, the continent’s economic powerhouse, and from farther afield for the […]
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