[ad_1] The Libyan army chief has been killed in an air crash in Turkey, Libya’s prime minister has said. Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others were on board a Falcon 50 aircraft flying out of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday evening. In a post on X, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said…
[ad_1] Twenty-two children have died and more than 130 have been injured after a school building collapsed in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, local officials say. Saint Academy in the state capital Jos caved in while students were in class on Friday morning. Children were left trapped under the debris. Volunteers used excavators, hammers and their…
[ad_1] At least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured after a series of blasts by suspected female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State. Three blasts took place on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, which lies across the border from Cameroon, Borno State police…
[ad_1] Rebel fighters affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 38 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials and a civil society leader in the region have said. The armed men used guns and machetes to attack residents of villages in Beni territory, in North…
[ad_1] Tina Ayele Mensah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija-Gbawe, has expressed deep sorrow over the sudden and untimely death of former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Weija Gbawe, Patrick Kwesi Brako Kumor. The MP has gone on record to attribute Mr. Kumor’s passing to his removal from office in February 2024, a decision…
[ad_1] A tragic head-on collision between two vehicles on the Kumasi-Accra highway has resulted in the death of 21 people, with several others sustaining varying degrees of injuries. The incident, which occurred Friday night involved a Sprinter bus and a mini-bus on the Breku stretch of the road in the Ashanti Region. Eyewitnesses recounted that…
[ad_1] EIGHT persons have lost their lives in a vehicular accident on the Nkenkensu to Akomadan road in the Ashanti Region. The accident happened around 4am on Wednesday when a Kia vehicle, which was said to be fully loaded with chicken, veered from its lane and collided head-on with an oncoming Yutong bus. The…
[ad_1] A private aircraft with seven people aboard crashed into a tree Wednesday, March 6, 2024, after failing to take off successfully in Burkina Faso’s eastern region, killing five people and injuring two, authorities said. The plane was taking off from a local airport in the city of Diapaga en route to the city of…
[ad_1] The opposition leader in Chad, Yaya Dillo, has been killed in a clash with security forces in Chad, officials report. Dillo was accused by the government of involvement in a deadly attack on the country’s security agency, which he denied. Heavy gunfire erupted near his party’s headquarters in the capital, N’Djamena, on Wednesday. Dillo,…
[ad_1] The Israeli army says 21 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza – the deadliest day for Israeli forces since the start of their ground operation. A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Daniel Hagari, said it is thought a rocket-propelled grenade hit a tank near two buildings they were in.bb He…
