NAIROBI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- The relationship between Africa and China is expected to strengthen further through various cooperation mechanisms and the future looks bright for such cooperation, a former senior African Union (AU) Commission official told Xinhua recently in Nairobi.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States is warning pilots that planes operating at one of Africa’s busiest airports could be “directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire and/or surface-to-air fire” as Ethiopia’s war nears the capital, Addis Ababa.
KAMPALA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Six people including three suicide bombers were killed and 33 others injured in twin bomb blasts in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Tuesday, police said.
Fred Enanga, police spokesperson told reporters that three suicide bombers detonated themselves at a checkpoint at the Central Police Station and on the parliamentary avenue.
Enanga said the injured were rushed to Mulago National Referral Hospital while counter-terrorism response teams managed to pursue a fourth suicide bomb attacker.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos in Oct. 2020. The report calls the shootings “a massacre.”
Police also “shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed protesters, which led to injuries and deaths,” the panel found.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Two loud explosions rocked Uganda’s capital, Kampala, early Tuesday, sparking chaos and confusion as people fled what is widely believed to be coordinated attacks.
One blast was near a police station and another on a street near the parliamentary building, said witnesses. The explosion near parliament appeared to hit a building housing an insurance company and the subsequent fire engulfed cars parked outside. Some lawmakers were seen evacuating the precincts of the parliamentary building nearby, according to national broadcaster UBC.
ABUJA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops have killed several militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province(ISWAP) in an encounter with the extremist group in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Saturday, the army said on Sunday.
A senior officer of the army and three soldiers were also killed in the Saturday gunfight in the Askira Uba local government area of Borno, said Onyema Nwachukwu, a spokesman for the army, in a statement reaching Xinhua on Sunday.
ABUJA, Nov 12 (NNN-NAN) – The Nigerian government said yesterday that, over 3,000 inmates are yet to be recaptured, following recent jailbreaks in the country.
A total of 4,860 inmates had escaped during attacks on the country’s custodial centres since last year, and only 984 of them have been rearrested so far, with 3,876 inmates still at large, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola told reporters here.
OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 13 (NNN-IRIN) – Seven police officers were killed and five others injured, in an ambush by gunmen yesterday, in the Sahel region in Burkina Faso, the police said in the capital, Ouagadougou.
According to a police statement, the ambush targeted a squad of the Republic’s security companies officers of Dori, while in a mission to ensure security on Dori-Essakane road axis, in Seno province, yesterday morning.
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 13 (NNN-IRIN) – Tanzanian Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, said yesterday, 10,361 villages out of the country’s 12,317 villages, have been connected to electricity by Oct, 2021.
Adjourning a two-week parliamentary session in the capital, Dodoma, Majaliwa said, the number of villages connected to electricity was equivalent to 84.12 percent of the East African nation’s villages.
NAIROBI, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Rebellious Tigrayan forces threatened on Friday to "hunt down" foreigners they said were supporting the Ethiopian government as mercenaries and technical experts in a year-long war.
Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesperson Getachew Reda said the foreigners could be from Turkey, China, Israel or the United Arab Emirates.
Government spokesperson Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to a request for comment. There have been no independently verified reports of the warring sides using mercenaries to date.
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