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13 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
Rescue teams are frantically digging through rubble after a gold mine near the town of Kamituga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo collapsed, trapping dozens of miners. The cave-in happened amid torrential rain at about 15:00 local time, and loc...
31 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Steven_BA
The history of Sudan, like many other countries in Africa and from other continents too, is fraught with numerous bloody conflicts, civil wars, coups d'état, human rights violations, people arrested and killed just because they opposed the regime, di...
26 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At a press conference in the capital city of Kinshasa, Health Minister Eteni Longondo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) announced that after a massive vaccination campaign that reached over 18,000,000 children last year, the world's...
23 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that in the past 5 weeks, the number of Ebola virus cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has nearly doubled to 100 cases, marking the nation's 11th Ebola outbreak. As of now, 96 of the 100 report...
20 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments AverageVancouverite
At least 45 migrants and refugees are confirmed dead after a deadly shipwreck off the coast of Libya, marking the deadliest shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, and bringing the total confirmed death toll of those attempting to cross the Mediter...
19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments AverageVancouverite
Malian President Ibrahim Boubcar Keïta, Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, and several other officials of the nation such as the foreign minister and the finance minister have been detained by mutinying soldiers are are being held at the Soundiata military...
18 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At least 15 people are confirmed dead and over a dozen others are injured after 4 gunmen attacked the 4-storey Elite Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. The attack started in the afternoon when a car bomb was detonated at the security gate of the hotel. The...
7 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In an official statement, Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi and the nation's government has declared a ban on the sale of alcohol, suspended all liquor licenses effective immediately, and banned consumption of alcohol in public places citing that...
4 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite
A 52 year-old Tanzanian small-scale independent miner named Saniniu Laizer who became an overnight millionaire this June for selling two Tanzanite stones worth the equivalent of 3.4 million United States dollars to the nation's Ministry of Minerals h...
25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In a statement by the South African Department of Correctional Services, officials confirmed that 69 inmates escaped the Malmesbury Prison of the Western Cape province during a jailbreak, and while 61 have been re-captured, a manhunt has been initiat...
