Yahoo News Malaysia reports that one person was killed and four injured when a light aircraft coming from Chad crashed in northern Cameroon on Monday, airport authorities said. “Five people were on board, including two pilots and three passengers,” said airport director Michel Mbollo in the northern town of Ngaoundere. He said they were all taken to hospital where a medical source told AFP on condition of anonymity, that one of the pilots had died from severe injuries. Read article
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As reported by Travel.state.gov, The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Chad and recommends citizens avoid all travel to eastern Chad and border regions. Because of security concerns, the U.S. Embassy in Chad reviews all proposed travel by official U.S. government personnel to areas outside the capital, N’Djamena, and […]
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Capitalfm.co.ke reports that at least 10 people were wounded in two separate attacks in Kenya, police said on Sunday, including a blast at a church in Mombasa and a grenade hurled in a crowd in Nairobi. In the port city of Mombasa, attackers on a motorbike threw a homemade bomb into a church service, wounding […]
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Sabahionline.com reported that the Tanzanian government has sent a team of experts to investigate a malaria outbreak in Kagera region, Tanzania’s Daily News reported Saturday. Read Article
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According to capitalfm.co.ke, more than 150 Chinese citizens arrested in Ghana for illegal mining will be deported next week but will not face criminal charges, an immigration official said Friday. The 169 arrests have been carried out since June 1 across the west African country and particularly in the central Ashanti region, a major gold-mining […]
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News24.com reports that brutal government repression in Eritrea, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and torture, is leaving its citizens with no option but to flee, a UN expert said on Wednesday. “The human rights situation in Eritrea is dire,” Sheila Keetharuth told reporters in Geneva, where the UN’s top human rights body was debating the […]
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Yahoo News reports about 10,000 Ethiopians staged an anti-government procession on Sunday in the first large-scale protest since a disputed 2005 election ended in street violence that killed 200 people. The demonstrators marched through Addis Ababa’s northern Arat Kilo and Piazza districts before gathering at Churchill Avenue in front of a looming obelisk with a […]
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Straitstimes.com reports that six suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just six months after an outbreak of the deadly virus ended in the area, the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday. Mr Sylvestre Ntumba, an official working for the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, […]
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Allafrica.com reports that Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Kenyan authorities should immediately open an independent public investigation, and the United Nations refugee agency – which has not […]
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Yahoo News reports that a spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia’s capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu. African Union and Somali troops pushed al-Shabab insurgents out of the capital in August 2011, fostering a relatively secure peace that Mogadishu hasn’t seen in […]
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