Category: Foreign

The former president of Chad, Hissene Habre, who was jailed for war crimes, has died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal’s justice minister said. Habre was said to have contracted COVID-19 at a clinic in the capital Dakar where he was taken 10 days ago from jail for medical reasons, Justice Minister Malick Sall, said. When his condition worsened, he was taken to Principal Hospital, where he died. Habre’s 1982-90 rule, which began with a coup, saw widespread killings by his infamous political police who rounded…

Not less than 21 people have reportedly lost their lives in the devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee, and dozens missing, local officials said Sunday in what they warned was a preliminary toll. Tennessee was hit Saturday by what meteorologists called historic storms and flooding, dumping 15 inches (38 centimeters) or more of rain. Rural roads, state highways and bridges were washed out and widespread power outages affected thousands of people. Twenty people died in the town of Waverly, in Humphreys County, Police Chief Grant Gillespie said.…

Afghanistan has been renamed the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ by the Taliban after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without police or traffic controls. It was reported that scores of Afghans ran alongside a US military plane as it taxied on the runway and several clung to the side as the jet took off with Senior US military officials confirming that the chaos left seven dead, as well as several who fell from the flight. The…

Death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake has jumped to over 1,200 on Sunday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination. In Les Cayes, as in other hard-hit cities on the southwestern peninsula, most of the population spent the night sleeping outdoors in front of their houses — or what remained of them — amid fears of new aftershocks. The streets there were filled with the grinding sounds of heavy equipment lifting debris from collapsed buildings, as well as…

A trending video which emerged on Tuesday has exposed some Immigration officials who were assaulting a Nigerian diplomat in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. This was as the Federal Government announced the recall of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Asian country, Usman Ogar, due to the ugly incident. The diplomat, who was apparently in pain while the unyielding Indonesian immigration officers pinned his head to the seat of a car, was heard shouting “I can’t breathe.” Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, who announced Ogar’s recall for consultations in Abuja, on Tuesday,…

The violent outbreak in South Africa which has been running for the past five days, has left about 72 people dead. Stores and warehouses in South Africa were hit by looters on Tuesday despite the troops President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed to try to quell the unrest. As pillaging erupted in the economic capital of Johannesburg and the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa’s main opposition accused radicals of stoking the unrest. The armed forces were sending 2,500 soldiers to help the overwhelmed police. But these numbers are dwarfed by the…