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An avalanche on Sunday near Mont Blanc in southeastern France swept four people to their deaths and left two more missing, the officials said. Among the dead were two mountain guides caught by the snow tumbling down the Armancette glacier, the prefecture for the Haute-Savoie department said. Investigators had been …

Twenty-one people have been charged with manslaughter in the investigation into the sinking of a mini-ferry that killed 30 people and left seven missing a month ago in Gabon, the Libreville public prosecutor announced Saturday. On March 9, the Esther Miracle, which linked the capital to the oil port of …

The Department of State Services has kept mum concerning the arrest and detention of the founder, RIG Nation and Pioneer Church, United Kingdom, Tomi Arayomi, and his wife, Tema, by its operatives at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport on Friday. Although the reason behind their arrest was unclear, impeccable sources …

At least 21 people including six children have died in Somalia’s flash flooding over the last week, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency. Nearly 100,000 people have been affected by the heavy rains and flash floods that hit the previously drought-stricken area in the Bardhere district of the Gedo region …

The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 17-year-old boy for allegedly defiling two minors in the state. The state Police Commissioner, Mr Mamman Dauda, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday. He said, “On April 2, at about 3 p.m, the police …

The port of Pointe-Noire, the economic and oil capital of Congo-Brazzaville, received on Wednesday its first cruise ship carrying foreign tourists, a sign of the economic diversification sought by the Congolese government. Finnish flag floating in the air, 115 meters of steel carrying 150 tourists of various nationalities, the SH …

From the first concerned to the Catholic bishops, through political parties and civil society associations, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, positions are being taken against a controversial bill on “congolity”. This bill, known as the “Tshiani law”, named after its initiator Noël Tshiani, himself a candidate in the …

The Senate on Tuesday frowned on the continuous stay in the mortuary of the remains of a former Senate President, Joseph Wayas, 14 months after he died in a London hospital. Wayas, who was a senator in the Second Republic, died on November 20, 2021 after hospitalisation at the London …

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga announced Sunday he was calling off a protest on Monday and would embark on dialogue with the government after two weeks of chaotic street demonstrations. Three people have died and properties and businesses been looted since anti-government protests erupted on March 20, alarming neighbours and …

The Presidential Transition Council has debunked a fake Twitter handle created by unethical persons since 2020. The fake Twitter handle @TransitionNgr (https://twitter.com/TransitionNgr.) according to PTC was created before the establishment and inauguration of the council. This was contained in a statement signed by the Director, Information for the Secretary to …