United Nations aviation experts investigate the wreckage of a cargo airplane that crashed after take off near Juba Airport in South Sudan on Nov. 5, 2015. (Reuters File Photo) Several people are feared dead due to a plane crash in South Sudan, the director of Juba International Airport said in a statement late Tuesday according […]
Continue reading …More than seven million people in England live in areas where there are almost no cases of coronavirus, official figures show. Hundreds of neighbourhoods across the country recorded close to zero cases last week. Caption: Eight million people live in areas of UK with ‘no Covid’ Getty – Reuters – Metro.co.uk Numbers are so low […]
Continue reading …The Central Bank of Somalia has issued first ever mobile money licence to Hormuud Telecommunication, which operates EVC Plus.Hormuud Telecom’s mobile money platform, EVC Plus, will now be formally regulated and financially backed by the Central Bank of Somalia. The move formalised digital payments as a payment method within the country and will enable further […]
Continue reading …It is the third COVID-19 vaccine that has received the FDA’s emergency use authorization in the country, following the first one developed by American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech, and the second one developed by American drugmaker Moderna. A lab worker holds a vial of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) […]
Continue reading …Kidnappers have released all the girls abducted from a boarding school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara on Friday, the state governor told Al Jazeera, as President Muhammadu Buhari expressed “overwhelming joy” over the news. Police initially said 317 girls were abducted in the raid by more than 100 gunmen on the Government Girls […]
Continue reading …Mikhail Gorbachev, the historic reformer who presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union, marked his 90th birthday in quarantine Tuesday and like everyone else is “tired” of virus restrictions, his spokesman said. A spokesman said Gorbachev, seen here in 2017, had received a “heap” of birthday messages from around the world Vasily MAXIMOV AFP/File Congratulations […]
Continue reading …Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revealed an ambitious timetable with the aim of going to the moon on uncrewed missions by 2023. Image: Turkish Space Agency (TUA) Turkey has unveiled ambitious plans to head to the Moon in 2023, followed by a soft landing on the lunar surface in 2028, said the country’s President […]
Continue reading …A French court found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty on Monday of trying to bribe a judge and of influence peddling, making him the second head of state in modern-day France to be convicted of corruption. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for the verdict in his trial on charges of corruptionand […]
Continue reading …In less than three months, Nigerians especially those from the Northern part of the country had witnessed mass abduction of school children by armed bandits terrorizing the region. It is no longer news that bandits have deviated from their normal activities of blocking roads, attacking worship centres and others but may have discovered a ‘lucrative’ […]
Continue reading …Donald Trump returned to the spotlight Sunday telling enthusiastic conservatives that he may run for president again in 2024, as he sought to reassert his dominance over a Republican Party that is out of power. Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, US February 28, 2021. © Octavio […]
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