Angry over Brexit delay, ‘Leave’ supporters march through London

LONDON, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of people opposed to Britain delaying its departure from the European Union marched through central London on Friday (March 29) as lawmakers in parliament strongly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time. On the day that Britain was originally meant to be…

Slovaks vote for president with outsider tipped to win

BRATISLAVA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Slovaks vote for a new president on Saturday with the odds-on-favourite an outsider whose anti-corruption stance has resonated with voters, still reeling from the fallout from aninvestigative journalist’s murder. An environmental lawyer with no experience in political office, ZuzanaCaputova could become the EU and eurozone…

Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities hit by new blackout, third in a month

CARACAS, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A new blackout hit Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities on Friday, the third major electricity outage in the crisis-plagued country this month. The blackout began around 7:10 pm, leaving the capital as wellas cities including Maracaibo, Valencia, Maracay and San Cristobal withoutelectricity, according to…

US administration gives Liberian migrants reprieve from deportation

WASHINGTON, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US government has extended by 12 months the temporary leave to remain of thousands of Liberians who were facing deportation by Sunday (March 31). Most of them fled Liberia’s two civil wars between 1989 and 2003 and were allowed to live in the US…

Kenya: Prisoners demand more than 1 US cent a week

NAIROBI, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lawyers in Kenya acting on behalf of prison inmates have gone to court to get prisoner pay rates reviewed. They were last set in 1979.The prisoners are pushing for an increase on the 1 US cent a week they are currently earning.Only prisoners who demonstrate…

Drug trafficking: Brazilian, Latvian and 2 others nabbed in Burundi

BUJUMBURA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Burundi is still a hub for international drug trafficking, particularly heroin. The police on March 20, seized three kilos of narcotics worth 360,000 euros. The drug was being transported by a South American trafficker, who was arrested at an airport in Bujumbura, the capital of…

Malta arrests five after migrants hijacked ship

The tanker was taking migrants to Libya when it was hijacked VALLETTA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The authorities in Malta have arrested five people as part of their investigation into the hijacking by migrants of a ship which rescued them in the Mediterranean.In the early hours of Thursday, Malta’s security…

Boeing sued in US over Ethiopian Airlines crash

NEW YORK, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A lawsuit against the airplane maker Boeing has been filed in a United States federal court by the family of a man who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash earlier this month.All 157 crew and passengers were killed in the accident.The relatives of Jackson…

Exiled former Togolese minister prevented from traveling to Lomé

François Boko PARIS, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A former Togolese Interior Minister in the Gnassingbé Eyadema government, François Boko, who has been in exile in France since 2005, was on Thursday prevented from boarding an Air France flight to Lomé.According to an airport source, “the information provided by the Togolese…

Chad: Activists want social media restored after it was cut off a year ago

N’DJAMENA, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Activists in Chad are demanding that the government restore access to social media after it was cut off a year ago. The restrictions were introduced on March 28, 2018 – shortly after the conclusion of a national conference which recommended changes to the constitution, to…