Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly two-decade freeze on capital punishment in the authoritarian Central Asian country, a notice on the presidential website said Saturday. The notice said President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had signed off on parliamentary ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — […]
…FG declines responsibility, explains their position The United Arab Emirate (UAE) has arrested and detained, without prosecution, many Nigerians in a series of sting operations targeted at irregular migrants. VANGUARD gathered that on the 9th of December 2020, security operatives raided the homes of many African migrants, most of whom are Nigerians living in Al […]
Argentina Wednesday became one of only a handful of South American nations to legalize abortion, after hours of debate in the Senate. Hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions are carried out every year in the nation of 44 million, and pro-choice campaigners have long-urged authorities to put an end to dangerous backstreet terminations by legalizing […]
A white police officer who shot dead a Black man in Columbus , Ohio, last week was fired on Monday , city officials said . The death of Andre Maurice Hill triggered outrage in a country that has been racked by protests against police brutality and systemic racism since the spring . The 47- year […]
At least 37 people including 10 women and four children were killed when their bus hit a truck in central Cameroon, police said on Sunday. Nineteen other passengers were injured on the bus, which was found in a ravine, Ndikinimeki police commissioner Moantsouog Mempou Paulin told public radio station CRTV. AFP
A French soldier deployed to Mali as part of the Barkhane force fighting jihadist insurgents has wounded two comrades with a pistol while drunk, the army headquarters said Saturday. The confrontation under the influence happened overnight from December 24 to 25 at a base in Gao in eastern Mali. “Two soldiers from the same unit […]
A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said. The blaze in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Obour district, on the outskirts of Cairo, also injured five other people, the sources said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, the […]
A total of 207 people were killed in a Wednesday attack by gunmen in western Ethiopia, the country ’ s Human Rights Commission said , more than doubling a previous count . The independent government body had on Wednesday said 100 people were killed in their sleep and crops burned in a pre – dawn […]
An explosion shook downtown Nashville early Friday, with black smoke filling the morning sky, according to local reports. Nashville’s Fox 17 said the blast was reported at approximately 5:40 a.m. local time. “There is an incident involving an explosion,” the Nashville Fire Department said in a statement. “This is an active scene. Metro Nashville Police […]
The killing of an unarmed African-American man by police in the US city of Columbus, Ohio sparked a fresh wave of outrage this week against racial injustice and police brutality in the country. Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house on Monday night when he was shot several times by a […]
