Botswana gets first fuel price fall in 2022

GABORONE, Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Botswana witnessed its first-ever drop in fuel prices in 2022, said the country’s energy authorities. According to a press release from Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority, pump prices for petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin will decrease by 1 pula (0.076 U.S. dollars), 0.23 pula and 0.08…

DRC gives greenlight to deployment of EAC Joint Regional Force

KINSHASA, Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi has presided over the signing of an agreement giving green light to the deployment of the EAC Joint Regional Force, led by the Armed Forces of the DRC in Eastern DRC, to…

AU welcomes call by Tigray for peaceful resolution of Ethiopian conflict

ADDIS ABABA, Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The African Union (AU) has welcomed the announcement by the Regional Government of Tigray of its commitment for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. In a statement, The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat also lauded Tigray´s willingness to participate…

Kenya: President-elect William Ruto inaugurated Tuesday

NAIROBI, Sept 13 (NNN-KBC) — President-Elect Dr William Ruto was Tuesday inaugurated as the 5th President of the Republic of Kenya. Dr. Ruto won the election held on Aug 9 and becomes the 5th President after Mzee Jomo Kenyatta who ruled between 1963 and 1978, President Daniel Arap Moi from 1978 to 2002,…

UK: Florists prepare for soaring sales ahead of queen’s funeral

LONDON, Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Flower sales are set to blossom for the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II next week, as Britons rush to pay respects across the country. Well-wishers descended on London’s vibrant Columbia Road flower market on Sunday to snap up colourful bouquets after Britain’s longest-serving monarch…

Burkina junta chief sacks defence minister as jihadist violence rages

 OUAGADOUGOU, Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a January coup, has sacked his defence minister and assumed the role himself after a series of jihadist attacks, according to decrees published Monday. The first decree, read on national television, removed General…

Cuba holds international cuisine festival to boost tourism

MATANZAS (Cuba), Sept 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — The 12th edition of Cuba’s international cuisine festival “Varadero Gourmet” kicked off here Monday after a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID, as the country strives to revive tourism. The event takes place in the seaside resort of Varadero in the western province of…

Falling logs from truck crush car on Brazilian highway, killing four

SAO PAULO, Sept 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — Four people were killed and one injured on Monday when logs rolled off a truck and crushed a car on a highway in Brazil’s southern state of Parana, police said. The morning accident occurred on highway BR376 in the municipality of Tibagi, when the…

Canada shooting: Toronto police officer killed in ‘ambush’ gun attack; suspect also shot dead

TORONTO (Canada), Sept 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 22-year Toronto police veteran was fatally shot in an “ambush attack” and the suspect is dead, with shooting scenes spanning three Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area cities Monday afternoon that left a third person dead and three others injured. Const. Andrew Hong, 48,…

New president vows to make work of UN General Assembly more impact-oriented

Csaba Korosi, president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly UNITED NATIONS, Sept 13 (NNN-Xinhua) — The president of the upcoming 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Hungarian Csaba Korosi, vowed to build bridges and make the work of the assembly more impact-oriented. “We must continue…