Cameroon crisis: Ambazonia separatists get life sentences

YAOUNDE, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A leader of Cameroon’s separatist movement, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers have been given life sentences by a military court in the capital, Yaoundé.They were convicted of rebellion, among other charges.Their lawyers accused the judge of bias and withdrew from the proceedings.The…

Italy: Prime Minister Conte announces resignation

Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe. Photo courtesy Twitter ROME, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced he will resign after his populist government lost the support of a key coalition member.Conte accused Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, of trying to ruin the ruling coalition…

Tanzania to sell crocodiles: Tourism Minister

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzania will sell 10% of its crocodile population as a way of dealing with increasing human-wildlife conflict, the tourism minister said.“There are many cases of people being attacked by the crocodiles and hippos in several areas besides destruction of crops and other properties,…

Migrants ‘going mad’ jump in sea in desperate bid to reach Italy

ROME, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Migrants have jumped in the sea in a desperate attempt to reach an Italian island after being stranded on a boat for 19 days.The Open Arms humanitarian group said the Italian coastguard was trying to rescue nine people after another man had thrown himself in…

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…