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About thirteen (13) shops have been gutted by fire at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The shops located opposite the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly were consumed by the inferno Monday dawn. The shops include mobile phones and fashion shops. The relatively swift intervention by personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service helped to extinguish the fire from spreading to other shops. However, items worth thousands of cedis were destroyed. Some of the items consumed by the blaze were electric sewing machines, manual or butterfly sewing machines, electronic pressing irons, dryers, cooking utensils, mirrors, phones and accessories. The cause of the…

A 27 years years old Kojo Antwi also known as Ebenezer Antwi has been arrested by Assin Awisem Police Command for assaulting and killing her two years old stepdaughter, Victoria Twumasi. According to an eyewitness, the two years girl eased on herself during a Health Insurance Registration Exercise in Assin Awisem, this, Kojo Antwi angrily assaulted her by hitting the little girl on the ground which rendered the girl limping on her feet. He then took the stepdaughter away to the bush,killed her and run away to hide himself. The mother Alice Gbeve told the media. In an interview behind…

A fire spread through the intensive care ward of a Romanian hospital where COVID-19 patients were receiving treatment. Officials have said a short circuit appears to be the likely cause. A fire at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients killed 10 people and critically injured seven others, authorities said on Saturday. The blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for COVID-19 patients at the public hospital in the northern city of Piatra Neamt. Irina Popa, the spokeswoman for the local Emergency Situations Inspectorate, said all but one of the dead or injured were hospital patients. Eight of the victims…

Thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters have taken to the streets of Washington DC to show their support for the outgoing commander-in-chief. US officials have dismissed President Trump’s claims of election fraud. Supporters of US president Donald Trump marched through Washington DC on Saturday to protest what they believe to be electoral fraud. Trump has repeatedly claimed victory in this month’s election without providing evidence. President Trump’s motorcade passed by the crowd shortly after the event began. Videos posted on social media showed the incumbent commander-in-chief waving from his car. US security officials yesterday dismissed Trump’s claims of fix, saying last week’s…

An unprecedented five tropical storms have made landfall in the Philippines in a period of three weeks, beginning 25 October with Typhoon Molave and continuing this week with severe tropical storm Vamco. An unprecedented five tropical storms have made landfall in the Philippines in a short period of three weeks, beginning 25 October with Typhoon Molave (local name: Quinta) and continuing this week with severe tropical storm Vamco (Ulysses). Moreover, Vamco is the 21st tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, arriving just two weeks after Typhoon Goni. It is being recorded as the strongest typhoon of 2020, so…

So far, around 48,000 IDPs have been informed that the camps where they shelter will be closed before the end of this month. Information about closures and timelines have changed rapidly creating uncertainty. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is boosting support to internally displaced Iraqis returning to their towns and villages in an effort to mitigate some of the adverse effects of the government-led large-scale camp closures so near to the onset of winter. Following the government’s announcement to accelerate solutions for over 250,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), the authorities initiated the closure of 10 sites in Baghdad, Kerbala, Diyala,…

Thousands of people have fled the Muidumbe district due to repeated attacks since last week. There have been horrifying reports of extreme brutality unleashed on civilians by non-state armed groups. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned about a worsening security situation in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique. Civilians and especially women and children bear the brunt of mass human rights violations that include brutal attacks and kidnapping. Thousands of people have fled the Muidumbe district due to repeated attacks on several villages since last week. There have been horrifying reports of extreme brutality unleashed on civilians by non-state…

The victims drowned in three separate shipwrecks, bringing the death toll of people who have died trying to escape Libya by crossing the Mediterranean Sea to nearly 700 this year alone. More than 100 people have drowned in three separate shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in just 72 hours, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. This brings the death toll of people who have died trying to escape Libya by crossing the central Mediterranean Sea to nearly 700 this year alone. “The responsibility for these deaths lies squarely with European Union (EU) member…

Armenia prevented an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the seizure of power by a group of former officials, the country’s National Security Service (NSS) has said. Pashinyan had come under pressure in recent days, with thousands of demonstrators protesting since Tuesday and demanding he step down over a ceasefire that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh after six weeks of intense fighting. In a statement on Saturday, the NSS said its former head Artur Vanetsyan, the former head of the Republican Party parliamentary faction Vahram Baghdasaryan and war volunteer Ashot Minasyan were under…

Ethiopians seeking refuge in neighboring Sudan have described the horror of intense fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where deadly battles between federal government troops are rebel forces have sparked international alarm. With a communication blackout and severed transport links in much of the restive state, the reports by exhausted and terrified refugees pouring across the remote frontier into Sudan provide some of the first witness accounts of the 10-day conflict, which has reportedly killed hundreds of people. Tigray conflict: Ethiopian refugees, soldiers cross into Sudan “The government wants to get rid of the Tigray people, so we fled. The…