At least 11 people, including eight police officers and a local chief, were killed on Saturday by cattle rustlers they were chasing in drought-stricken northern Kenya, Kenyan police said Sunday. Cattle rustling or disputes over water sources or grazing land are common in the pastoral areas of northern Kenya, which border Ethiopia and South Sudan. The Kenyan police denounced on Twitter a “criminal and cowardly ambush by cattle rustlers against the public and police officers” in Turkana County, which it said left 11 people dead: 8 police officers, 2 civilians and a local chief. The police officers killed were in…
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Three people have died, and scores were injured after a six-storey building collapsed in Kiambu, central Kenya, Kenya’s national broadcaster reported. It is not immediately clear what caused the building to collapse. Rescue efforts are underway and emergency workers have managed to pull a child from the rubble. Several others have also been rescued but “sadly, some are feared to have succumbed to their injuries”, Kiambu county Governor Kimani Wamatangi said. Building collapses in Kenya have in the past been blamed on poor structural design or sloppy construction. Eyewitnesses said it fell onto an adjacent building. It is not known…
Libya’s Court of Appeal held Sunday the fifth session of the trial of 46 men accused of belonging to terrorist organization: the Islamic State. Clad in blue prison overalls the suspects appeared in the dock. Among the accused, Libyan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Algerian, Moroccan, Jordanian and Sudanese nationals. They are accused of being members of a terrorist group and of carrying out killings. During the session, which was attended by families of IS victims, the judge listened to eyewitness statements. Islamic State organization took advantage of the turmoil following the murder of Muammar Gaddafi to set up a base in Libya in…
In an ambitious mission to cut plastic pollution in the top 30 most affected countries, the Plastic Odyssey is ready to set sail from Marseille on 1 October. It will be a three-year expedition to South-East Asia, Africa and South America; training hundreds of people to recycle waste into useful objects Simon Bernard is a co-founder of Plastic Odyssey. “We’ll be making 30 stops in Africa, South America and South-East Asia,” he says. “And the aim is to train 300 recycling entrepreneurs who will be able to set up micro-factories and process waste before it ends up in the ocean.”…
A strike by air traffic controllers at several African airports, has been suspended after unions said they had received guarantees on their demands. The planned 48-hour action was initiated by the Union of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions of Asecna (USYCAA). The Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (Asecna) has 18 member states, mainly from French-speaking Africa. The strike began on Friday and has caused massive disruption. Ethiopian Airlines’ station manager in Abidjan, Narcisse Lagou, said: “We are forced to divert our planes, cancel flights, and [inform] our passengers. All commercial operations are suspended. The inconvenience is…
Mali’s interim prime minister poured damning criticism on France at the UN on Saturday, saying they were “stabbed in the back” when the French military withdrew from the country. Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga said Mali felt abandoned in its fight against terrorism. “The world will remember that, after being abandoned in mid-air on 10 June 2021 by France’s unilateral decision to withdraw the Barkhane force from Mali, my country was then stabbed in the back by the French authorities,” said Maïga. “In view of the seriousness of the acts committed by the French junta, Mali, in its letter dated 15 August 2022,…
Viola Davis brought her empowering drama “The Woman King” to the Toronto International Film Festival, Friday (9 September 2022), for the film’s world premiere. Davis stars as an African warrior named Nanisca, with Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, and Sheila Atim co-starring as fellow soldiers. As she was walking into the screening, Davis spoke briefly about taking on the role. “It feels right. It feels like it made my life. It feels like my coming feels like it’s my coming out party. It’s my debutante ball. I always knew I was Nanisca,” Davis said. Drawing from the real history of the…
Two days after his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, King Charles III was officially proclaimed Britain’s monarch Saturday in a pomp-filled ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and political symbolism – and, for the first time, broadcast live online and on air. Charles, who spent seven decades as heir apparent, automatically became king when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday. But the accession ceremony was a key constitutional and ceremonial step in introducing the new monarch to the country, a relic of a time before mass communications. This is the first time the accession ceremony has been…
Prince Harry and Meghan have joined Prince William and Kate in viewing floral tributes to the late queen in Windsor. Watch the Video https://youtu.be/_mXxsPXX6Zc AMN Reporters.
A court on Friday quashed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s suspension of South Africa’s public protector a day after she launched a probe into a burglary at his farmhouse, calling the move “improper”. The Western Cape High Court said the “hurried nature” of the suspension of Busisiwe Mkhwebane suggested it “may have been retaliatory” and thus unlawful. “The decision of the applicant to investigate the President … prompted the President not to wait a day more and to immediately suspend her,” the judges wrote. Rampahosa suspended Mkhwebane in June shortly after she sent him questions over the alleged cover up of a…
