(AFP) — Microsoft announced plans Wednesday to bring internet access via satellite to 10 million people, half of them in Africa, as part of efforts to bridge a digital divide with the developing world. At a summit with African leaders…
(AFP) — Gunmen have attacked a convoy of an opposition senator in southeast Nigeria, killing five people including two security escorts, police said Monday, in the latest violence in a region where separatist tensions are rising. The gunmen ambushed the…
(AFP) — Somali forces have ended a deadly siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu that lasted about 30 hours, a security commander told AFP around midnight Saturday. At least 13 civilians have been killed and…
(AFP) — Dozens of families were Saturday fleeing violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, where ongoing clashes between two tribes have killed at least 33 people, authorities said Saturday. At least 108 others have been wounded, according to a health…
(AFP) — More than 30 people were killed on Saturday in a stampede in southern Nigeria during an overcrowded church charity event where food was being distributed. Shoes and slippers lay scattered on the ground after the disaster in Port…
(Eagle News) — The death toll from flooding in the port city of Durban, South Africa has risen to more than 340 people. Helicopters have fanned out over the city in a desperate search for survivors. Roads and bridges have…
By: Thomas I. Likness EBC News Service (Eagle News) — Canada’s list of terrorist entities has four new names. “Recent events in our communities should remove any doubts about the serious threat posed by ideologically-motivated violent extremism in Canada,” Public…
(AFP) — At least 64 people were killed and 180 injured in an Ethiopian air strike on a market in the war-torn Tigray region, a local health officer told AFP Thursday. “The air strike was in the market area,…
(Eagle News) – KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive council member Nonhlanhla Khoza rendered her remarks with a mix of sorrow and outrage on Saturday, May 1 as she, other officials, and family members received the remains of South African native Lindani…
By: Thomas I. Likness EBC News Service (Eagle News) — Flights from the Covid-19 hotspots of India and Pakistan will not be allowed to land at Canadian airports, the Transportation Minister Omar Alghabra announced Thursday. “Effective 11:30 p.m. eastern time…
