Zimbabwe: Pres Mnangagwa thanks Singapore for taking good care of Mugabe

HARARE, Sept 8 (NNN-SABC) — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has thanked the Singaporean government, its medical teams and its people for taking good care of President Robert Mugabe. Mugabe died in Singapore on Friday morning at the age of 95. Addressing the nation, Mnangagwa said: “We are most grateful to the team of…

Honduras: Afro-descent woman, 5-year-old daughter are murdered in their own house

TEGUCIGALPA, Sept 8 (NNN-TELESUR) — An Afro-descendant woman and her five-year-old daughter were shot dead Friday by unknown persons who forcibly entered their house in the municipality of Santa Rosa de Aguan in northern Honduras, an official source reported.  The victims were identified as Gilma Antonia Cacho and her daughter…

Nigeria: Xenophobia – evacuation suffers setback

ABUJA, Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The federal government’s plan to evacuate Nigerians from South Africa ran into hitches as most of the citizens willing to return home had no valid travel documents. The development compelled the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria to cancel the exercise and fix a new date…

Hundreds of weary, hopeful Bahamas evacuees arrive in Florida by ship

A passenger is greeted after disembarking the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line ship, Grand Celebration RIVIERA BEACH (Florida, US), Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of weary Bahamians, some carrying small bags of belongings and children on their hips, disembarked a cruise ship in south Florida on Saturday after fleeing the catastrophic…

Cuba, EU to hold second Joint Council meeting in Havana

HAVANA, Sept 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — The European Union (EU)’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini has begun an official visit to Cuba to attend the second EU-Cuba Joint Council meeting, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said. The meeting will kick off on Monday in Cuba’s capital city Havana. The Cuban delegation would be led…

Russians go to polls after summer of protests

MOSCOW, Sept 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russians vote Sunday in local electionsafter weeks of opposition protests that led to the biggest police crackdownon dissent in nearly a decade. Elections take place after Moscow and Kiev carried out a long-awaited swapof 70 prisoners on Saturday, a deal hailed as a first step…

Peru: Prosecutor’s Office carried out confiscations worth US$121 million

LIMA, Sept 8 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peru’s Lava Jato Case Prosecutor’s Office has seized S/400 million (about US$121 million) from businesses and people under investigation for alleged corruption offenses involving Brazilian construction companies and Peruvian citizens. Prosecutor Jorge Ramirez indicated this measure was used against houses, apartments, vehicles, and shares in…

Bahamas seeks aid for its tourism after battering by Hurricane Dorian

SAN JUAN, Sept 8 (NNN-EFE) — The Bahamas government has asked the world’s tourism industry not to cross the archipelago off its list of vacation destinations, but to help it avoid an economic crisis following the destruction inflicted by Hurricane Dorian, which left 43 known fatalities and the likelihood of…

Brazilian minister prepared to sell all “dysfunctional” state owned companies

FORTALEZA (Brasil), Sept 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said he will propose selling all the country’s state-owned companies because they are “dysfunctional” and should be privatized to improve the government’s finances. In a wide-ranging address at a conference in the northeastern city of Fortaleza broadcast live on…

Brazil’s agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

BRASILIA, Sept 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country’s exports. Reacting to the situation Brazil’s leading…