Covid-19: Most rules in England to be scrapped as infections fall

The Covid-19 Memorial Wall in London LONDON, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UK government announced that restrictions reimposed in England last month to fight the surge in Omicron coronavirus cases would be lifted, citing data that showed infections had peaked. Guidance advising people to work from home was lifted immediately,…

Haitian wanted in president’s killing extradited to US

Photograph of a banner hanging in a street with the image of the assassinated President Jovenel Moise, in Petion-ville, Haiti MIAMI, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Haitian wanted in the assassination of the country’s president was arrested in Miami on Wednesday after being extradited from the Dominican Republic, a US…

US: Pres Biden confirms Kamala Harris would be running mate in 2024

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden said that Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mate in the 2024 presidential election if he stood for office again. “She’s going to be my running mate,” Biden said of Harris during a press conference held to mark the…

Peru says oil spill caused by Tonga waves is an ‘ecological disaster’

A dead bird lies on a beach during a clean-up LIMA, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An oil spill at a refinery in Peru during high waves caused by the explosion last weekend of a volcano in Tonga is an “ecological disaster”, the Peruvian government said. The foreign ministry said that the oil spill had…

US mulling redesignating Yemen’s Houthis as terrorist group after deadly drone attack on UAE

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden said his administration is considering redesignating Yemen’s Houthi movement as an international terrorist organisation following drone and missile attacks on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) claimed by the group. His comment at a news conference came shortly after the Emirati Embassy tweeted that…

Eighteen, including Vietnamese ringleader, sentenced to jail in Belgium two years after British lorry deaths

Some of the convicts in court during sentencing BRUGES (Belgium), Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Vietnamese man was handed 15 years jail time in Belgium on Wednesday, for his role as ringleader of a people-smuggling operation that led to the deaths of dozens of migrants in a lorry in Britain…

Two arrested of Italian ambassador’s death in Congo

Luca Attanasio, the late diplomat was killed in 2021 KINSHASA, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two suspects in the 2021 killing of Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio in DR Congo, have been arrested according to the police chief of the country’s North Kivu province.Another suspect, who allegedly fired shots at Attanasio, remains…

Covid-19: Tanzania hopeful of removal from the UAE’s ‘virus red list’

The UAE removed Rwanda, Ghana, Angola, Uganda, Guinea, and Cote d’Ivoire from its ‘Red List DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Authorities in Tanzania are optimistic that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would soon drop the East African nation on its COVID-19 ‘Red List’.Tanzanians, along with Kenyans are still locked in…

Covid-19: EAC loses $3.4b to Coronavirus measures as trade declines

Pandemic containment measures negatively impacted free movement ARUSHA (Tanzania), Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Uganda was the only country in the East African Community region to record a trade increase of 4.6 per cent in 2020, a year when the average economic growth for the entire region declined to as low…

UK firm set to design $246m Railways City in Kenya

Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General, Mohammed Badi NAIROBI, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A plan to build a $246.6 million city has moved a notch higher after the Nairobi Metropolitan Service in partnership with Kenya Railways picked UK firm Atkins Global to design the project.The deal will see the firm design…