DR Congo: Ebola kills boy aged 7 in South Kivu

KINSHASA, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A child has died from Ebola in DR Congo’s South Kivu, health authorities said, the second person to succumb to the virus since the epidemic spread to the eastern province. “A seven-year-old child died Sunday of Ebola” in South Kivu’s Mwenga region, said Claude Bahizire,…

Russia and China blast US missile test

MOSCOW/BEIJING/WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia and China warned that a new US missile test had heightened military tensions and risked sparking an arms race, weeks after Washington ripped up a Cold War-era weapons pact with Moscow. The US and Russia ditched the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)treaty this month after…

British PM Johnson’s Brexit letter offers no alternatives to Irish backstop: EU

BRUSSELS, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The EU gave a chilly responseto British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s letter demanding the scrapping ofthe Irish border backstop plan to achieve a Brexit deal, saying he hadoffered no workable alternative. “The letter does not provide a legal operational solution to prevent thereturn of a…

‘Environmental tragedy’ as Canary Islands fire out of control

MONTAA ALTA (Spain), Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A fire raged out of control on the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria, forcing evacuations as flames rose so high even water-dropping planes could not operate in what was dubbed an “environmental tragedy”. The blaze, the third in 10 days in the…

Burkina Faso: Toll from attack on military base rises to 24

The army said it had launched a large air and ground operation in response to the attack OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from an attack on a military base in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 24, the militarysaid, in the bloodiest assault in the army’s history.…

Over 500 migrants died while trying to reach the US, IOM says

GENEVA, Aug 18 (NNN-TELESUR) — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated that at least 514 people have died on the American migratory routes so far this year. Of them, 247 have died at the U.S.-Mexico border. “This is the earliest point in any of the past six years that IOM’s Missing Migrants Project has…

16 African countries agree to adopt Kiswahili as a formal language

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 18 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — 16 southern African countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have agreed to adopt Kiswahili as a formal language in the region. ‘‘I am appealing to your excellencies to fast track the adoption of Kiswahili to be among the four official languages…

Measles claims over 2500 lives in the DRC

KINSHASA, Aug 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A measles epidemic has caused more than 2,700 deaths between January and early August in the DR Congo, killing more people in seven months than Ebola in one year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported in a tweet. “The measles epidemic declared on June 10 is the…

Aquarium in South Africa joins WAZA world alliance

Visitors view an Eagle Ray swimming in the ‘Two Oceans Aquarium’ in Cape Town, South Africa CAPE TOWN (South Africa), Aug 18 (NNN-EFE) — The Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town recently became a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), a global alliance for zoos, aquariums,…

Update: SADC Summit roars into life

By Lydia Shekighenda DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 18 (NNN-DAILYNEWS) — Tanzania writes yet another history as all eyes are on the country with all the ‘number one citizens’ of southern African nations gathering in Dar es Salaam for the 39th Southern African Development Community Summit (SADC) Summit. The newly commissioned…