NBC News reports that two Americans were kidnapped by pirates after their ship was attacked off Nigeria’s coast, U.S. officials said Thursday. The U.S.-flagged oil supply vessel C-Retriever was targeted in the Gulf of Guinea early Wednesday, Reuters reported. Maritime news website gCaptain reported that the ship’s captain and its chief engineer had been abducted. U.S. officials said the working assumption was that the pair had been kidnapped for ransom. Read article
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Egyptindependent.com reports that six people were killed and another 25 were injured when a tourist bus bound for Sharm al-Sheikh overturned on Sunday. Ambulances transferred the victims to nearby hospitals. Civil Defense personnel and traffic police were in charge of removing the debris to allow traffic on the road, which had been halted for a […]
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According to china.org.cn, armed gangsters robbed a tourist and other Kenyan passengers of their personal belongings including money in Samburu county in northern Kenya late on Saturday. The middle aged man with duo citizenship of Australia and South Africa was attacked by armed men who stole unknown amount of money and his personal belongings worth […]
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CBS News reports that the U.S. embassy in Kampala, Uganda, warned that it is on alert for the possibility of a terror attack that could resemble the “Westgate-style” massacre that killed more than 60 people in a Kenyan mall last month. Al-Shabab militants, a group with links to al Qaeda and Somalia, claimed responsibility for […]
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The New York Times reports that two Somali men killed in a bomb blast were believed to have been plotting an attack in Ethiopia when they accidentally blew themselves up, Redwan Hussein, Ethiopia’s minister of information, said on Monday. The explosion took place Sunday afternoon as thousands were gathering in the capital, Addis Ababa, to […]
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Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned. The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the island’s rat-infested jails are particularly at risk. The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts fleas, which transmit the disease from rats and other […]
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The BBC reports that Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned. The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the island’s rat-infested jails are particularly at risk. The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts fleas, which transmit the disease […]
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The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of traveling to Sudan, urges U.S. citizens to avoid all travel to the Darfur region of Sudan, the Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states, and advises you to consider carefully the risks of travel in other areas of Sudan. The Department of State warns U.S. […]
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Yahoo News New Zealand reports that a mob in Madagascar on Thursday killed two Europeans suspected of mutilating and murdering a young boy at the country’s main tourist resort, security forces said. Residents on Nosy Be island went on the rampage after the missing eight-year-old was found dead with his genitals and tongue cut off, […]
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Al Jazeera reports that at least nine people have been killed after a small passenger plane with 27 people on board crashed shortly after take-off in Nigeria’s most populous city Lagos. The Associated Airlines plane was headed for Akure, a southwestern town about 225km away, with seven crew and 20 passengers, Aviation Ministry spokesman Joe […]
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