Kenya drought: Three people killed in Isiolo as clashes intensify pitting herders’ searching for water

A police reservist is among the dead NAIROBI, Feb 19 (NNN-KBC) — Tension is high in Kenya’s Mlango area, Burat ward of Isiolo County after three people were gunned down by armed raiders from the neighboring Samburu County, as clashes between herders from Isiolo and Samburu Counties over pasture and…

Update: Debris from Russian MS-21 spacecraft plunges into Pacific

VLADIVOSTOK, Feb 19 (NNN-XINHUA) — Debris from Russia’s Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft has plunged into the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, the Russian State Corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday. After undocking from the International Space Station (ISS), the spacecraft entered the atmosphere on Sunday. Its unburned elements fell into…

DR Congo: Women in street protest call on M23 rebels to leave their city

GOMA (DR Congo), Feb 19 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Hundreds of displaced women in Goma called for the departure of the rebel group M23 and an end to the violence in Eastern Congo. The women said they’re suffering from hunger and their children have been unable to attend school. With babies on their…

US gun violence: Injured Chinese student at MSU shooting paralyzed chest down

CHICAGO, Feb 19 (NNN-XINHUA) — A 20-year-old Chinese student who was shot and injured in the on-campus shooting at Michigan State University on Feb 13 is paralyzed from the chest down, the Detroit News reported Saturday. The shooting left three students killed and five injured. The Chinese student surnamed Hao…

US gun violence: Another six-year-old boy brings gun to school in Virginia and threaten to shoot classmate; mother arrested

NORFOLK (Virginia), Feb 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The mother of a six-year-old boy has been arrested after he brought a gun to his primary school in Virginia – the latest such incident in the US state. Police were called to Little Creek Elementary School in the city of Norfolk on Thursday afternoon,…

Mexico not handing over Pacific Alliance presidency to “undemocratic” Peru: Pres Obrador

Mexico City, Feb 19 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would not be handing over the pro-tempore presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru on the grounds that Pedro Castillo Terrones’ impeachment has been “undemocratic”. AMLO said he would not deal with the “spurious government”…

Uruguayan ministers tackle avian flu

MONTEVIDEO, Feb 19 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Uruguay’s Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries (MGAP) sought technical advice from Chile to handle the current bird flu crisis, it was reported Friday in Montevideo. Minister Fernando Mattos admitted the initiative had been adopted given Chile’s experience on the matter which, on the other…

Nicaraguan government to cover full fuel price increase

MANAGUA, Feb 19 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Government of Nicaragua will assume the rise in fuel prices in its totality, despite the increase in international cost of oil, reported the Nicaraguan Energy Institute.     According to a statement made jointly with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Energy and Mines for next week,…

Drought-hit Uruguay will import electric energy from Argentina

MONTEVIDEO, Feb 19 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Uruguay will import electric energy from Argentina to reduce generation costs, increased by the persistent drought, it was informed.     The heat wave has reduced the flow of hydroelectric sources, which are the most important in the national energy production. Uruguay also buys energy from…

Caricom Summit addresses situation in Haiti

NASSAU, Feb 19 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) called for a greater leadership role to address the deterioration of the situation in Haiti, reports the official website of the institution.     Haiti is a member state of the organization with which there are moral and political ties and obligations,…