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Death Toll In Madagascar Shipwreck Rises To 85
Maritime officials have said the death toll from a shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar this week has risen to 85. Maritime authorities said 138 people were on the 12-foot-long (3.6-metre) boat carrying cargo which sank on Monday, adding that only 50 had been rescued. The wooden vessel, a cargo boat not authorised to carry passengers, had…
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Gunmen Attack Oyo State Prison, Free Dozens Of Inmates
Olanrewaju Anjorin, a spokesman of the Oyo correctional centre in Oyo state, has reported a jailbreak after gunmen attacked the facility on Friday night. The spokesman told The Associated Press news agency on Saturday that the centre could not ascertain the number of prisoners that escaped during the attack. “I can’t ascertain the number of…
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Boat Mishap In Congo River Claims Over 50 Lives
Provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have reported a casualty of 51 persons and over 70 others missing after a ship capsized in the Congo River on October 4, 2021. 51 bodies were recovered late on Friday from the boat that sank during the night of Monday to Tuesday, according to Nestor Magbado,…
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Flooding In South Sudan Displaces Over 6000 People
UN reports that about 623,000 people have been forced to leave their homes by widespread flooding in South Sudan since May. According to the report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), rivers broke their banks following heavy rains, filling houses and farms in eight of the country’s 10 states.…
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Heavy Rains Displace Over 1,500 Families In DR Congo
Heavy rains causing floods have washed away over 1500 houses in the Goma region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities in the area linked the recent eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the area to have promoted the flooding given that vegetation was wiped out. “It was raining and we were in our houses preparing…
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Wildfires In Algeria Linked To Brutal Lynching Of A Villager
Authorities in Algeria have linked last week’s outbreak to a brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a town in Algeria’s Kabyle region. A man identified as Djamel Ben Ismail, 38, was lynched and burnt to death outside a police station on the main square in the town of Larbaa Nath Irathen, a village…
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Federal Government Approve Toll On Highways
Nearly two years after the Minister for Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola announced the re-introduction of toll plazas on federal roads, the Federal Government has now approved a toll payment plan across the country. The ministry revealed that the payment plan is part of a Federal Roads and Bridges Tolling Policy and Regulations approved by…
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22 Suspected Arsonists Arrested Over Deadly Fires In Algeria
The East African country has arrested 22 people suspected of being behind the most devastating wildfires in the country’s history that killed 69 people, injured over 1000 and displaced 600. Forest fires have hit mountainous areas in northern Algeria since Monday, mainly in Tizi Ouzou of the Kabylie region east of the country’s capital, Algiers. Algeria’s President,…
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600 Families Displaced By Wildfires In Algeria
At least 600 families have lost their homes to wildfires near Algeria’s capital, according to a representative of the Algerian Red Crescent. Mountain forests and villages of Tizi-Ouzou, capital of Kabyle, has been in the grip of ravaging wildfires since Monday. The outbreak has claimed not less than 69 lives — 41 civilians and 28…
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Security Surveillance Gulps N476bn
An analysis of the Federal Government budgets between 2017 and 2021 has shown that an estimate of N475.8 billion have been spent on surveillance to curtail the high level of insecurity threatening the country. The report showed that this amount m was budgeted for the nation’s two surveillance agencies – the National Intelligence Agency and…