Peru: The only country in the region to retain credit rating

LIMA, June 27 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peru is the only country in the region to retain its A3 investment grade credit rating with a stable outlook, the Inca country’s Economy and Finance Ministry said. In June 2018 and March 2019, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, respectively, maintained Peru’s…

Madagascar independence day celebrations: Stampede kills 16 and wounds 75

ANTANANARIVO, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 16 people were crushed to death and 75 wounded in a stampede at a stadium after a military parade in Madagascar’s capital on Wednesday to mark the country’s independence day, authorities said.Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona Hospital confirmed the casualties, said General Richard Ravalomanana, Secretary of State for the…

‘Dozens’ killed in foiled Ethiopia coup attempt: regional government

ADDIS ABABA, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Dozens of people were killed in fighting during a foiled coup by a rogue state militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara region at the weekend, the regional government spokesman said, the first official report of significant clashes.The militia attacked the police headquarters, ruling party headquarters and…

US immigration: Drowning exposes risks of illegal crossing

MEXICO CITY, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — El Salvador’s government has warned its citizens against risking their lives to reach the US after a Salvadoran man and his baby daughter drowned in the Rio Grande.Photos of their bodies, found face down in shallow water with the 23-month-old girl’s arm around her…

Russia rotates military ‘technicians’ from crisis-hit Venezuela

MOSCOW, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia rotated military technicians out of crisis-hit Venezuela on Wednesday, its embassy in Caracas said, as the Venezuelan government declared that it thwarted an alleged coup plot. Russia — whose president, Vladimir Putin, meets his US counterpart Donald Trump later this week — angered Washington…

Zimbabwe wants ivory ban lifted so it can sell $600 million stockpile

HARARE, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is calling for a lift of the global ivory trade ban so that the country can sell $600 million of stockpiled tusks. Opening the UNEP wildlife economy summit in Victoria Falls, Mnangagwa called “for the free trade in hunting products as…

Kenya halts Lamu coal power project at world heritage site

Lamu is the planned site of Kenya’s first coal-fired power plant  NAIROBI, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan judges have halted plans to construct the country’s first ever coal-powered plant near the coastal town of Lamu, a Unesco World Heritage Site. The National Environmental Tribunal ruled that authorities had failed to…

European Countries Set New June Heat Records Amid Heatwave

France is bracing for temperatures over 40C in the coming days  BRUSSELS, June 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic hit their highest ever recorded June temperatures on Wednesday – with more records anticipated to fall as the heat continues to rise in the coming days. Some nations,…

Zimbabwe to donate its excess elephants, lions to Angola – President Mnangagwa

HARARE, June 26 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) — President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is planning to donate different kinds of animals to Angola to help the SADC country restore its wildlife which was almost decimated by the civil war. This is despite a ban in trade in wildlife products imposed by the…

DR Congo: Thousands of refugees flee as inter-ethnic violence flares

KINSHASA, June 26 (NNN-ALLAFRICA) — The United Nations refugee agency reports around 7,500 Congolese refugees have fled to Uganda this month to escape escalating inter-ethnic violence. Officials are screening them closely, not only for wounds and injuries, but for any who might be carrying the deadly Ebola virus. UNHCR reports…