Views: 3 The Budget committee in session Members of the Budget Committee have questioned the role of the Ministry of East African Community Affairs over its reported failure to engage the East African Community Membership on trade barriers. The East African Community Affairs Committee chaired by Hon Noeline Kisembo Basemera was on Monday, 24 January […]
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Views: 3 Most of the relief supplies, including drinking water, food, electric generators, water pumps, chain saws, personnel protective equipment and medical supplies, have been raised by the Chinese Embassy in Fiji and the remaining was donated by the Chinese enterprises in Fiji. © Provided by XINHUA SUVA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) — China shipped relief
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Views: 2 ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed two policemen in Nigeria’s northern state of Jigawa in a shootout after they responded to a distress call over an abduction, a police spokesman said on Monday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of northern Nigeria in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and perpetrating mass kidnappings for ransom.
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Views: 1 An Australian man has pleaded guilty to abducting four-year-old Cleo Smith and holding her at his home for 18 days. © Wa police Police released a photo of Cleo Smith after her rescueCleo vanished from her family’s tent while on a camping trip in Western Australia last October. Her disappearance gripped the country and
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Views: 3 Crush took place as Cameroon beat Comoros 2-1 in Yaounde. Dozens more were reported to have been injured and were taken to a nearby hospital. African soccer authorities ‘investigating’ incident © Provided by DW Cameroon’s progress at the African Cup of Nations was overshadowed by a stampede outside the stadium that killed at least
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Views: 1 By Margaret Davis and Sophie Corcoran A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly mowing down a knife attacker who had stabbed a woman in the street. The driver ran over a 41-year-old man in Maida Vale, west London at around 9am on Monday in an apparent bid to
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Views: 1 The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, as survivors on Monday described how the devastating Pacific blast “messed up our brains”. The NASA Earth Observatory said the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano spewed debris as high as 40 kilometres (25 miles)
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Views: 1 A musician onboard a luxury cruise liner that diverted to the Bahamas to avoid a US arrest warrant over unpaid fuel bills says its 700 crew and passengers were shocked to learn the vessel was fleeing “like a pirate ship”. © Getty ImagesA US court issued an arrest warrant for the Crystal Symphony
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Views: 1 © Reuters/El Tayeb Siddig FILE PHOTO: People attends a protest in Khartoum KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Three demonstrators were killed on Monday when Sudanese security forces fired live rounds and teargas during protests against military rule that attracted tens of thousands of people across the country, medics said. Such protests, along with barricades throughout the capital
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Views: 3 Russia has been warned it will be swiftly hit with an “unprecedented package of sanctions” in the event of a fresh incursion in Ukraine after Boris Johnson joined Joe Biden and world leaders to present a united front to combat a feared invasion. The Prime Minister and the US President met virtually with
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