Beyond the Headlines
The Sierra Leonean police has invited Ernest Koroma, former president of the country, to assist in an ongoing probe into the security breach that rocked Freetown, the country’s capital city, nearly two weeks ago. Chernor Bah, the country’s minister of information and civic education, had said “unidentified individuals” attacked the barracks which houses several […]
A Russian teenager on Thursday shot dead a classmate and injured five others before killing herself in a school in Bryansk near the Ukrainian border, investigators said. School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, which has strict gun laws, but have become more common in recent years. “A 14-year-old girl brought a pump-action shotgun […]
Three people were killed and another seriously injured by a gunman who was shot dead by police at a US university on Wednesday. The incident at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a short distance from the gambling hub’s tourist-packed Strip, was the latest in the United States, where gun violence is a part […]
Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was on Saturday taken from prison by a heavily armed commando during an operation that sparked heavy gunfire in the capital Conakry, lawyers and a judicial source said. At least two other former officials currently on trial alongside Dadis Camara over a 2009 massacre during his presidency were […]
No fewer than 143 people were killed in an overnight earthquake that struck a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said Saturday, as security forces rushed to assist with rescue efforts. The 5.6-magnitude quake hit isolated western districts of the Himalayan Republic late Friday and was measured by the US Geological Survey at just 18 […]
A Nigerian student, identified only as Ikem, was allegedly brutally murdered by a group of Chinese in the Republic of Philipines. An ally to the deceased, identified as Michael Ojuola, on X made this known on his page on Sunday. He wrote, “A friend of mine, A Nigerian Medical Student named Ikem studying in […]
A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced in absentia the exiled daughter of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seven years in prison for “promoting” her father’s outlawed Baath party. The party was dissolved and banned after Hussein was toppled during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. According to the ruling, which AFP was able to […]
Six people including two civilians were killed and nine others wounded in a suicide attack on a military outpost in the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu Saturday, police said. The attack was claimed by the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab. Witnesses told AFP a suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives to the […]
The United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom have cautioned their citizens from travelling to Belgium following the attack that happened on Monday evening. Vanguard reported that two Swedish nationals were killed and another person injured during a shooting at Place Sainctelette in Brussels on Monday evening. Reacting to the incident, the US […]
A ‘fake’ lawyer, who reportedly won all 26 of his cases despite having no legal training, has been arrested in Kenya. On Thursday, legal officials in Kenya urged police to arrest a man practicing under the name “Brian Mwenda”. They said the man was a “masquerader” who had stolen the identity of a real […]
