A Dutch tourist and the manager of Ikoma Tented Camp in the western part of Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park were killed last week during an armed robbery, reportseturbonews.com. The national parks authority has said that the attack took place on Wednesday June 20, according to a report by Timeslive. Read article
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A hand grenade thrown into a bar in the Kenyan tourist hub of Mombasa as clients watched a Euro 2012 football match Sunday killed one person and wounded several others, police said. Three of those wounded were in a critical condition, the head of the coastal province’s police, Aggrey Adoli, said. The attack came just […]
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Bandits attacked a lodge near Tanzania’s fabled Serengeti national park, killing its local manager and a Dutch tourist, the national parks authority said Friday. The attack took place on Wednesday and while parks officials did not elaborate on its circumstances, Tanzanian television said the bandits robbed several tourists.”The tourist is from the Netherlands. He was […]
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Police said 16 people died after blasts at three churches, while a Red Cross official in Kaduna city said aid workers “so far have recovered over 20 bodies” of people killed by rioters. Authorities arrested one of the bombers who survived, said Kaduna State police chief Mohammed Abubakar Jinjiri, but he declined to say who […]
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More strikes have recently impacted the global shipping industry. In Indonesia, an airport was also on strike last week similar to Norway’s airport security walkout, as previously reported in this blog. However, in Indonesia, the pilots were the ones protesting. All flights were cancelled at Air Nigeria, according to the News of Africa. The strike […]
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Johannesburg – The outbreak of rabies in Gauteng is fully under control despite an incident where three people were bitten by a puppy with suspicious behavioural symptoms of the disease. Agriculture, Rural and Social Development, chief director veterinary services, Dr Malcom de Bude said they had experienced an imported case of rabies into Gauteng from […]
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A coach driver whose tour bus plunged down a South African mountain killing 27 Britons has been convicted of causing their deaths, local prosecutors said today.Titus Dube, 41, pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide in connection with the September 1999 tragedy, according to the chief prosecutor’s office in Nelspruit, capital of the Mpumalanga […]
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Pro-democracy groups in Egypt have called for a mass demonstration in Cairo to protest the sentence handed down to former President Mubarak and accomplices last week. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to gather in Tahrir Square from 5pm (local time) on Tuesday June 5th 2012. Visitors in Cairo are advised to stay well […]
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A French tourist diving in the Seychelles died after a possible shark attack, officials said Tuesday. The 36-year-old had been deep-sea diving in Anse Lazio in the arichipelago’s Praslin isle on Monday, police spokesman Jean Toussaint told AFP. Read article
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The U.S. State Department is reporting that two American tourists visiting Egypt have been kidnapped at gunpoint. The Americans were reportedly on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, in the city of Dahab, when kidnappers allegedly pulled them from their car. The kidnapping is tied to the arrest of a local man, Eid Suleiman […]
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