One person was killed and children were among the 21 injured after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally yesterday triggered panic among huge crowds of fans. Shots rang out moments after jubilant Chiefs players addressed a vast, cheering crowd, sending shocked fans and VIPs fleeing in a tragic end […]
•President Nana Akufo-Addo Ghana’s president removed his finance minister in a sweeping reshuffle today ahead of December elections where an economic crisis looks set to take centre stage. Ken Ofori-Atta will be replaced by lawmaker Mohammed Amin Adam, according to a presidency statement. The long-serving finance minister, in office since 2017...
February has long been acknowledged as the month of love, with Valentine’s Day falling on the 14th of the month. In many nations, individuals commemorate this occasion by gifting chocolate, flowers, and cards to their loved ones, reports Vanguard. However, a few countries prohibit the observance of Valentine’s Day since it is not part of [&hel...
Kenya Airways, the East African carrier, has unveiled plans to increase its weekly frequencies into Nigeria to a minimum of 15 weekly flights before the end of the year. The airline, which presently operates daily flights from its base in Nairobi to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, said that other frequencies may be [&...
•Prince Johnson Liberia’s new defence minister yesterday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers’ wives, the presidency said. The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January, reports AFP. Boakai “has rec...
•Estonian PM Kaja Kallas Russia has declared Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as “wanted” on criminal charges today in an unprecedented step against its Baltic neighbours. It was not immediately clear why Kallas, who has led Estonia since 2021, was listed as “wanted”, reports AFP. Relations between Moscow and EU member Estonia, which is hom...
•President Joe Biden US President Joe Biden belatedly joined TikTok yesterday, marking his debut on the social media platform with a 26-second video. The move comes after fierce US government criticism of the video-sharing platform in recent years, most notably from Republicans but also from the Biden administration, reports AFP. TikTok is own...
•President Katalin Novak Hungarian President Katalin Novak announced her resignation yesterday following outrage sparked in the central European country by a decision to pardon a man implicated in child sexual abuse case. “I am resigning my post,” said the close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, acknowledging that she had made “a mistake”, ...
•Displaced persons A nonprofit organization, Save the Children International, SCI, yesterday, raised the alarm over escalation of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, displacing 78,000 children and ripping thousands of families apart. According to SCI in a statement made available to the press, at least 78,000 children have flee thei...
•Pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida University Two people have died after a small plane attempted to make an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida yesterday afternoon, colliding with a vehicle and bringing traffic to a halt as a massive plume of black smoke rose into the air. The crash landing happened near the […]...
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