Botswana to start issuing trophy hunting licences in December

GABORONE, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Botswana’s president announced the government will by December start issuing trophy hunting licences after it controversially scrapped a five-year ban on the practice, and angered international conservationists. President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s government in May removed the moratorium, just a year after he suceeded Ian Khama, an…

Girl dies, several feared missing in French bridge collapse

The dead girl’s mother was pulled alive from a sunken car by bystanders, some of whom were badly injured in the rescue attempt MIREPOIX-SUR-TRN (France), Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 15-year-old girl was killed after a suspension bridge over a river in southwest France collapsed on Monday, causing a car,…

Riot police use water cannons to disperse Georgia protesters

Anti-government protesters block an area near the entrance to parliament in Tbilisi TBILISI, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Riot police in Georgia on Monday used water cannons to disperse anti-government protesters who have taken to the streets after the ruling party backtracked on promised electoral reforms. Hundreds of riot police in body…

Three killed in Oklahoma Walmart shooting

Three people, including a shooter, are dead following a shooting in Duncan, Okla. OKLAHOMA, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A gunman killed two people outside an Oklahoma Walmart store Monday before fatally shooting himself, officials said. A woman and a man were fatally shot in a car in the parking lot…

Walmart seeks police protection in riot-hit Chile

SANTIAGO, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Walmart has sought court orders for police protection in protest-wracked Chile after more than 120 of its supermarkets were looted or burned. The Chilean subsidiary of the US-headquartered retailer lodged orders with courts in six Chilean cities, saying the attacks on its stores had put…

Dec 12 elections: Protest city, Algiers shunned by most Algerian candidates

The five candidates for the Dec 12 elections ALGIERS, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Campaigning has officially started for the Dec 12 presidential election in Algeria – but on the first day all but one of the five candidates chose to stay away from the capital, Algiers – the city where opposition to the poll…

‘32 militants killed’ in Burkina Faso sex slave raid

Security forces in Burkina Faso have been under pressure as militant attacks increase OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The army in Burkina Faso says it has killed 32 armed men – described as “terrorists” – during two operations in the north of the country, the first of which resulted in…

Nigeria bandits ‘slit throats and kill children’

Many villagers have been attacked in Nigeria’s Zamfara state over the years ABUJA, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigerian police say at least 14 people have been killed and many others wounded in an attack by armed men on a village in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara state.Residents say the death toll was…

Volta secessionists declared wanted, police to place them on Interpol red alert

Charles Komi Kudzordzi [with walking stick] declared Western Togoland independent on Nov 16 ACCRA, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police are on a manhunt for the leader of a separatist group that declared independence for Western Togoland last Saturday, sources at the Ghana police CID headquarters said. The source said “we…

Floods affect over 547,000 people in Somalia: UN

MOGADISHU, Nov 19 (NNN-XINHUA) — Flooding in parts of Somalia has impacted more than 547,000 people, of whom 370,000 have been displaced from their homes, destroying livelihoods and infrastructure in the Horn of Africa nation, the UN said. Citing figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-led protection and…