Nigeria: 3 inmates electrocuted in prison accident

Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola visited Ikoyi prison following the accident LAGOS, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least three inmates of a prison in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, are believed to have been killed in an electrical incident on Monday morning.A member of staff said that the accident was caused by…

Ghanaian CEO elected as President of Africa Women in Mining

Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo, President of AWIMA ACCRA, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Georgette Barnes Sakyi-Addo, a Mining Services Entrepreneur in Ghana, has been elected President of the Africa Women in Mining Association (AWIMA) for a two-year term.She was elected at the General Assembly Meeting of AWIMA, which took place under the…

Italy and Ghana sign MoU on agri-business

Eni officials and Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Marfo (Middle) ACCRA, Dec 3 (NNN-GNA) — Eni, an Italian oil exploration and production company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ghana to spur sustainable development initiatives in the agri-business sector.The agreement provides for a joint definition of mechanisms to facilitate access…

Xenophobia: Over 600 Nigerian shops locked up again by Ghanaian traders

ACCRA, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Over 600 shops belonging to foreign traders particularly Nigerians at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle have been locked up by members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA).This is not the first time GUTA members had embarked on such an exercise in their quest to…

Air raids in Libyan capital kill five civilians, injures 10: ministry

TRIPOLI, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least five civilians were killed and 10wounded in overnight air strikes in a suburb of Libya’s capital, the unitygovernment’s health ministry said. “Violent air raids on the residential area of al-Swani killed fivecivilians and injured 10 others, some of them seriously,” said spokesman Amin…

Morocco bus crash kills 17; in Tunisia death toll rises to 26

RABAT/TUNIS, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A bus crash in northern Morocco killed 17 people as the vehicle overturned, the health ministry said, in thesecond such accident in North Africa the same day. The bus crashed on Sunday near Taza, a town between the Rif and Atlasmountains, local authorities said, with…

Suriname leader says he is victim of political game after murder conviction

Suriname’s President Desi Bouterse addresses the media in Paramaribo after arriving from China PARAMARIBO, Dec 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Desi Bouterse said he was victim of a “political game” when he returned to Suriname after a court found him guilty of murder in absentia for the 1982 execution of 15…

At least 14 killed in church attack in Burkina Faso

OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 2 (NNN-Xinhua) — Gunmen attacked a church on Sunday and left at least 14 dead and several injured in Burkina Faso’s eastern region, an official said. The attack occurred during a worship in a church in Hantoukoura town in the Foutouri department of Komondjari province, close to Burkina…

Libya: Tripoli international airport to resume flights on Dec 12

TRIPOLI, Dec 2 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Ministry of Transport of the UN-backed Libyan government announced that the Mitiga International Airport in the capital Tripoli will resume flights on Dec 12. A meeting was held to discuss the latest developments of the projects, in which a decision was made to reactivate…

Climate talks in Spain to open as ‘point of no return’ looms

MADRID, Dec 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Political leaders and climate diplomats are to meet in Madrid for two weeks of talks amid a growing sense of crisis.According to UN Secretary General António Guterres, “the point of no return is no longer over the horizon”.Meanwhile, Save the Children says that climate shocks…