At least 1,000 Sudanese refugees have fled a camp run by the United Nations in northern Ethiopia following a series of shootings and robberies, three of the refugees and the United Nations said.

Baidoa (HOL) - Somali police forces in the Southwest state have cleared ten illegal checkpoints in the Bardale district of the Bay region, where militias had been extorting money from vehicles and residents.

A well-known taxi operator was shot and killed on Wednesday morning in the community of Rocky Valley in Stony Hill, St Andrew. He is known by the aliases 'Banky' and 'Crocs'.  The incident occurred about 5:20 a.m. as the now...

Four alleged gunmen were killed and a policeman shot and injured during a reported gun battle this morning in downtown Kingston. Five illegal guns were also reportedly seized in the incident which climaxed at the corner of King and Charles streets...

L'organisation non gouvernemental «La Croix Jaune humanitaire africaine» a échangé avec les élèves des classes de 5è et de 4è du Collège d'enseignement secondaire Jean Hilaire Aubame Eyeghe. Le but de cette rencontre entre les deux parties,était de sensibiliser les apprenants contre les grossesses précoces en milieu scolaire. C'était ce mardi 07 mai 2024 à Nzeng-Ayong, dans le 6è arrondissement de la commune de Libreville. C'est près d'une centaine d'élèves en uniforme qui ont investi (...) - EDUCATION / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

Most people would squirm or even run away at the sight of rats. But not these four kids, who were caught on camera picking up and playing with a rat at a playground in Bedok South. The video, accompanied by photos, were posted on Facebook group Complaint Singapore by user Michael Wong on Wednesday (May 8), and caused safety concerns among netizens. In the video, the boys, who look to be in school uniform, are playing at the playground when they spot the rodent. They take turns to use their slippers as «gloves» to hold the rat, even running around and going on the playground slide while doing so. In one photo, one of the boys is seen holding the rat with his bare hands. In the post, Wong said he had given feedback to the East Coast Town Council about two weeks ago regarding a «rat issue» but had not received a response. Some netizens who saw Wong's post expressed concern for the boys, saying that rats carry numerous diseases and handling them improperly could be a hazard. One wrote: «Poor kids have no idea how dangerous it is. Later [if they] forget to wash hand, and go take food, good luck!»

Minister for Home Affairs and Law K Shanmugam has called out anti-death penalty activists for spreading misinformation and helping death row inmates «abuse» legal processes.  During his ministerial statement in Parliament today (May 8) on Singapore's drug control policy, Shanmugam also criticised anti-death penalty activists for painting a one-sided image of convicted drug traffickers to mislead the public.  «They publish videos, pictures, stories from the trafficker’s childhood, sharing interviews with family members... portraying the trafficker as a victim of unfortunate circumstances.»  However, these stories omit the realities of the harms these traffickers have caused to the victims of drug abuse, he said. During his statement, the home affairs minister brought up several cases where innocent victims were harmed by drug abusers, such as a man who fatally stabbed his mother and punched his grandmother to death while under the influence of drugs. 

When a fire broke out at a three-room Whampoa flat in the wee hours of Monday (May 6), it claimed the life of 60-year-old hawker Cai Wanyuan (transliteration), while his wife and mother were rescued by firefighters. But three other family members also live in the sixth-floor flat at Blk 76 Lorong Limau — Cai's second son, his wife and their four-year-old daughter.  Speaking to Lianhe Zaobao at the mortuary on Tuesday, Cai's youngest son, Cai Jincheng (transliteration), 29, said the family of three were holidaying in Johor Bahru when the fire broke out. He added that the family is searching for answers regarding how the fire started and why his father was trapped in the bedroom. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) is investigating the cause of the fire.  Another relative, who declined to be named, told Zaobao that Cai, who was asleep, was purportedly the first person to discover the fire in the living room. He then woke his wife and told her to check on his mother, who was sleeping in the utility room in the kitchen.

In an interesting twist Malawi Congress Party (MCP) intra-political squabbles over who should content at the coming August Convention, veterans of the party have taken a swipe at one of the aspirants for the post of the deputy president Engineer Vitumbiko Mumba for allegedly manipulating the entire National Regional leadership through financial inducements. The veterans, […] The post Engineer Mumba in hot soup as MCP veterans accuse him of manipulation and sponsoring divisions in the party appeared first on Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi.

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- In Nigeria, soaring inhaler costs pose a significant challenge for asthma patients, especially as the world marked Asthma Day this week.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has ordered the re-opening of all schools on Monday.

[allAfrica] In healthcare, rapid and efficient distribution is crucial

The aim would have been to use the agency as a direct news source for Facebook, Business Insider has claimed

C'est allant d'un constat que la délégation spéciale de Mouila souhaite créer des jardins publics dans la commune. Mission, identifier des potentiels sites qui pourraient abriter ces jardins publics sous l'œil de la délégation spéciale de la commune de Mouila, conduite par son premier délégué Adjoint, Jacques Lekouaka qui assure l'intérim en l'absence du Général Cyriaque Mbadinga. «L'objectif de ce projet est d'offrir aux populations de Mouila des sites attractifs et divertissants» a (...) - INFRASTRUCTURES / SUJET_ECRIT_MAISON

PM Modi had attacked the Congress accusing it of taking money from industrialists Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani to stop the offensive. Taking a swipe at PM Modi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on X: «The times are changing. Friends are no longer friends…! After the completion of three phases of elections, today the prime minister has started attacking his own friends. This shows that Modiji's chair is shaking. This is the real trend of the results.»

Karnataka Police has summoned BJP National President JP Nadda and party member Amit Malviya to appear at Bengaluru's High Grounds police station within a week regarding a tweet shared by BJP Karnataka. The tweet in question is said to have targeted the SC/ST community. Earlier, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) had urged the Election Commission to take action against JP Nadda and other BJP leaders for allegedly violating the model code of conduct.

A mother who threw her disabled six-year-old son into a crocodile-infested river where he was mauled to death by reptiles has now blamed her husband, claiming he goaded her into it. 

Maria Zakharova stressed that Moscow «is ready to continue to support the promotion of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization»

The bills were introduced to the Verkhovna Rada by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on Monday

In his telegrams, the Russian leader underscored that Russia pays a tribute of deep gratitude and respect to all those who bravely fought at the frontline and worked selflessly at home, bringing the coveted Victory that cost so many lives

Yaroslav Zheleznyak added that 279 parliament members had voted in favor of the document

The 2024 BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Games will be held in Kazan on June 12-23 and will feature events in 20 different sports

Despite objections from Donald Trump’s attorneys, adult-film actress Daniels shared details of the alleged sexual encounter in the New York hush money trial.

Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.

Many have now claimed that the Red, White and Royal Blue star has joined the likes of Timothee Chalamet and Jacob Elordi - who have been dubbed 'babygirls'.

Seizing profits generated by frozen Russian assets would open Pandora’s box and erode investor trust, Euroclear’s CEO has warned   Read Full Article at RT.com

Michelle Ellis (pictured), 45 from Plymouth was bitten twice by the family dog on 13 January 2021 on her right wrist and outer forearm and called an ambulance two days later.

Ukraine said Tuesday it had unravelled a Russian plot to assassinate senior Ukrainian political and military figures, including President Volodymyr Zelensky. Two Ukrainian security officials were arrested for their links to the group, which had aimed to carry out high-profile killings ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inauguration on Tuesday. «The terrorist attack, which was supposed to be a gift to Putin for his inauguration, was in fact a failure of the Russian secret service,» Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said in a statement. Kyiv says Zelensky has been targeted by Russia on multiple earlier occasions, including at the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. The SBU said it had exposed a network of agents set up by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) tasked with identifying individuals close to Zelensky's security detail who could take the Ukrainian leader hostage and kill him. «The network, whose activities were supervised by the FSB from Moscow, included two colonels of the State Department of Protection who were leaking classified information to Russia,» the SBU said. Ukraine's State Department of Protection is in charge protecting the president and other senior officials and their families. A source in Ukrainian law enforcement told AFP that the suspects were detained «a few days ago». «They were really highly placed men. One of them was a head of department,» the source said. - 'Five or six' attempts - The SBU published photos of masked operatives in camouflage uniform arresting several suspects at night. In a video posted on the SBU's website, a man with his face blurred said his task was to «test the mood» among the presidential office's security guards, and select someone ready to detain the president, possibly as he went to give his nightly broadcast. The SBU said Russia also planned to eliminate Maliuk, as well as the head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov and other officials. Budanov was due to be assassinated before Orthodox Easter, which fell last weekend, the SBU said. The service's spokesman Artem Dekhtyarenko said the assassin had been promised a reward of up to $80,000. It published video footage purportedly of an FSB handler telling an agent to surveil a house linked to a target, apparently Budanov, and text when he arrived. «You'll most likely hear a loud blast,» the man says, telling the agent to then use a drone to carry out a secondary strike. The SBU published what it said were phone messages between a FSB handler and a colonel in the Ukrainian State Department of Protection, who it said personally brought drones, rounds and anti-personnel mines to Kyiv. It also gave names of three men it said were FSB handlers working with Ukrainian moles. Those detained are suspected of treason and preparing a «terrorist act», punishable by life in prison. Zelensky told The Sun in November that he had survived at least five or six assassination attempts. Polish and Ukrainian prosecutors announced last month they had detained a man suspected of aiding a Russian plot to assassinate Zelensky. And the SBU said last August that a woman had been arrested for over a plot to kill the Ukrainian leader by trying to uncover details of his movements outside Kyiv. © Agence France-Presse