Uganda: Refugees from DR Congo overwhelm Kasese

DRC refugees flee to Uganda KASESE (Uganda), April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An influx of over 3,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), since April 3 has overwhelmed the authorities in Kasese district. “The number we had on Monday morning has increased from 339 to more than 3,000,” Kasese…

Feature: 62-year-old Kenyan climber joins first All-Black Team attempting Mount Everest

JAMES KAGAMBI  NAIROBI, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan mountaineer James Kagambi is among a group of 10 climbers aiming to make history in a sport not known for its diversity. The group hope to be the first all-black team to climb Mount Everest. The other nine members of the team…

Belgium shuts Kinder chocolate factory over salmonella cases in Europe, US

BRUSSELS, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belgian authorities ordered the closure of a Kinder chocolate factory suspected to be behind a wave of salmonella cases in several European countries and the United States. The decision and the health concerns were blows to its owner, Italian confectionery giant Ferrero, coming at the…

US shooting: Teen girl killed, 2 wounded in Bronx shooting

NEW YORK, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three teenage children walking home from school Friday were shot, one fatally, when a gunman started firing during a street corner dispute in the Bronx, police said. The shooting was the latest episode of headline-grabbing violence in New York City amid a rise in…

Team Kenya to the 24th Deaflympics in Brazil challenged to post better results

Athletes being take through media training NAIROBI, April 9 (NNN-KBC) — Team Kenya for the 24th Summer Deaflympics in Caxias Do Sul, Brazil has been challenged to better their medal haul as they intensified their training at the Moi international sports center Kasarani stadium ahead of next months showpiece. The…

Ethiopia repatriates 100 children from Saudi Arabia

ADDIS ABABA, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopia repatriated 101 children from Saudi Arabia on Friday as it continued a campaign to return tens of thousands of its nationals from the country. Many of the Ethiopians from the Middle Eastern country are undocumented migrant workers who have been detained in squalid…

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation sets first-quarter record despite March dip

BRASILIA, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 15 per cent in March from a year earlier, preliminary government data showed, but even with that dip it was enough to drive the most destruction during the first quarter in at least six years. From January to March,…

US insists key group of Iran Guards corps stay on terror list

WASHINGTON, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States insisted on keeping the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps on its designated list of terror groups, as Washington pushes on with negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, had…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Pres Ramaphosa, Biden talk after South Africa abstains on UN Russia vote

PRETORIA, April 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa held Friday telephone talks with US President Joe Biden, a day after the continental powerhouse abstained from voting on a resolution suspending Russia from a UN rights body over its aggression in Ukraine. Ramaphosa, whose government has been criticised for…

No aid convoys in Ethiopia’s Tigray in past week: UN

Thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions UNITED NATIONS, April 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United Nations and partners have not delivered relief by road into the embattled Tigray region of northern Ethiopia for a week, UN humanitarians said. The 20-truck aid convoy…