Bolivia to Increase Natural Gas Production in 2019 – Pres Evo Morales

LA PAZ, March 26 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — President Evo Morales announced that the state-run Bolivian Tax Oil Fields (YPFB) plans to include in 2019 about four million cubic meters per day of natural gas into the domestic market, and comply with exports to Brazil and Argentina. Local media highlighted Morales’…

Migrants caravan reaches Huehuetan, Mexico, on its way to US

MEXICO CITY, March 26 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — A caravan of 1,500 Central American migrants arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas in Huehuetan on their passage through Mexico to the United States, confirmed a priest who runs a shelter. The priest Heyman Vazquez Medina, director of the shelter No One…

Venezuela Thanks Concert for Peace in Chile

CARACAS, March 26 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — President Nicolas Maduro thanked the initiative of different social movements in Chile, which spoke in favor of Bolivarian sovereignty during the concert For the Right to Live in Peace in Venezuela. The Head of State tweeted they will maintain the struggle to preserve social…

Journalists protest in Khartoum over crackdown on press freedom

A Sudanese protesting against his government during a demonstration earlier this year in Netherlands, The Hague. Photo courtesy of Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/dpa KHARTOUM, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Dozens of journalists marched in Khartoum to demand an end to a crackdown on press freedom amidst the most sustained…

Mexico vows to better protect threatened reporters as murder tally rises

MEXICO CITY, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Mexican official said that the government would strengthen measures to protect journalists, the day after a sports reporter became the latest in a long list of media workers to be murdered. Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for reporters, with…

Ugandan Pres Museveni to visit Kenya’s Mombasa Wednesday

Museveni will tour the Port of Mombasa. NAIROBI, March 26 (NNN-KBC) — Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is set to visit Kenya Wednesday for a two-day State visit. While in the country, Museveni will tour the Port of Mombasa. According to a State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena-Mararo, the visiting Head…

Ukraine measles outbreak kills 14, infects over 32,000

KIEV, March 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 14 people died and more than 32,000 were infected in a major measles outbreak in Ukraine in the past three months, the country’s Health Ministry said. A total of 32,939 people, including 18,109 children, were infected from Dec 28, 2018 to March 12,…

UN humanitarian chief urges int’l community to support fight against Ebola in DRC

UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — The UN humanitarian chief called on the international community to support the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the epidemic has claimed 621 lives. “We don’t think the world is paying enough attention to Ebola,” UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian…

CARACAS, March 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said the country’s main Guri hydroelectric plant was sabotaged again, causing another blackout in several regions, but authorities have managed to restore power quickly. “We want to inform the whole country that just as we have been denouncing, we have…

Tunisia, Switzerland keen to boost social security coordination

TUNIS, March 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday met with visiting Swiss Federal Councillor Alain Berset over social security coordination between the two countries, according to a presidency statement. The two-day visit of Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs of Switzerland, aims at…