Covid-19: Morocco suspends flights with three European nations over Coronavirus cases

Moroccan flag RABAT, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco has suspended flights with Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands over Covid-19 concerns.The Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc, said “upon decisions of national authorities and following the pandemic situation,” flights with the three countries were suspended starting from late Wednesday.“To support our…

Libya hosts international talks to shore up stability ahead of polls

Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, second right, and Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush, right, stand with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah, left, and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan at the international conference aimed at supporting stability in Libya TRIPOLI, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An…

Schoolchildren storm DRC parliament over striking teachers’ pay

Congolese students inside the parliament building in Kinshasa KINSHASA, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of schoolchildren have stormed the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) parliament building, demanding the government raise teachers’ pay to end a strike that has stopped lessons for more than two weeks.The teachers went on strike…

Fire kills 16 at Russian explosives factory

 MOSCOW, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sixteen people were killed and one person was missing after a deadly fire broke out at a Russian explosives factory southeast of Moscow on Friday, local authorities said.    The blaze took place in the village of Lesnoy, 300 kilometres from the capital in the…

Four killed in Abidjan as heavy rain hits Ivory Coast

  ABIDJAN, Oct 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Flooding after heavy rains killed at least four people in Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan and swept away two children, firefighters said.    “Eight victims, including four dead and four wounded, were registered in Mossikro,” a poor area of Abidjan, a spokesman said.   …

Covid-19: Latest global developments

 PARIS, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:   . The coronavirus has killed at least 4,926,579 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources.    The US has suffered the most Covid-related deaths with…

Cameroon army says kills 7 separatist fighters in restive Anglophone region

YAOUNDE, Oct 22 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cameroonian security forces repelled a separatist attack in the war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest on Thursday, killing seven militants and injuring dozens of others, the military has said. One soldier was injured in the encounter in Shuk, a village in the region, and significant quantities…

Update: Death toll from Russian plant fire rises to 15

MOSCOW, Oct 22 (NNN-TASS) — At least 15 people have been killed in a blast and a following blaze that hit a plant in Russia’s Ryazan region on Friday. At the time of the incident, there were 17 people in the one-story workshop of the “Razryad” company that produces industrial…

Seven dead in fire at Russian explosives plant: ministry

 MOSCOW, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seven people have died and nine are missing after a fire on Friday at an industrial explosives factory southeast of the Russian capital, the emergencies ministry said.   “Seventeen people were injured, of them seven died, one has been hospitalised and the fate of nine…

Canada will look to make more temporary migrants permanent, minister says

Migrants, refugees, undocumented workers and their supporters rally outside the office Canada’s Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino in Toronto, Ontario TORONTO, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada may extend the deadline of a programme created this year to give temporary residents working in key sectors a route to permanent residency, and is…