Punchng.com reports that ten people drowned and another 20 could not be unaccounted for after a boat carrying migrants from Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso sank off the coast of Gabon, a police official said on Friday. The boat had left Nigeria and was within 15 minutes of arriving in Gabon’s capital Libreville when it went down late on Tuesday night. Gabonese authorities rescued 23 survivors and the search continued into Friday. “Last night we had six bodies and since this morning we have found four more, which makes a total of 10 recovered bodies. The immigrants drowned,” said a member of the nautical brigade of Gabon’s national police, who asked not to be named. Read article
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As reported by allafrica.com, in February 2013, 20-year-old Mohamed*, like hundreds of thousands of other Eritreans, fled the brutal dictatorship in that East African nation in search of a better life in neighbouring Sudan. But for Mohamed and others like him, escaping into neighbouring countries has brought no end to their suffering. Many of them […]
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According to Gov.uk, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland. Any British nationals in Somalia should leave. There is a high threat from terrorism, including kidnapping, throughout Somalia, including Somaliland. Terrorist groups have made threats against westerners and those working for western organisations. The FCO believes that there […]
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AFP reports that a German engineer working for the Swiss-based ABB group and his driver were wounded on Thursday when unidentified gunmen fired on their car in eastern Libya, a security official said. The vehicle carrying four ABB Energy engineers — three Germans and a Czech — had been travelling between Ajdabiya and Zwitinah, where […]
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As reported by Gov.uk, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advise against all travel to the Central African Republic (CAR). British nationals should leave now if practical means are available, if it is safe to do so, and if a safe destination is available. Those who remain should take all precautions and stay in a […]
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BBC News reports that shops belonging to Asians were targeted in a protest in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo over the arrest of Congolese students in India. One Indian national was reportedly injured in the riots and is being treated in hospital. The demonstrators were angered by the arrest on Saturday of […]
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According to sport24.co.za, Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba was robbed at his hotel in Abidjan while on holiday in the country last week, Star Magazine, a local weekly, reported on Wednesday. According to the supersport.com website, the Galatasaray forward returned to his room on the 11th floor of Hotel Ivoire to discover that somebody had […]
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Dailytrust.com.ng reports that two expatriates believed to be Americans have been kidnapped in an oil palm plantation in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State. It was gathered that the expatriates were said to have been violently abducted by unknown gunmen near the plantation situated in the neighborhood of Ekong Anaku in the said […]
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According to manoramonline.com, pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indian and Polish crew members in increasingly dangerous waters off Nigeria’s coast last week, two security sources said on Wednesday. The gunmen launched their assault on the Singapore-flagged tugboat MDPL Continental One around 30 nautical miles from land on June 13, […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a bomb attack at a packed new Catholic church in northern Tanzania has killed one person and injured at least 30 people, police say. The blast happened on Sunday in the town of Arusha, where the Vatican’s ambassador to Tanzania, Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla, was attending the official opening of the […]
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