Guinea-Bissau votes in hope of ending long leadership deadlock

Guinea Bissau’s president Jose Mario Vaz speaks to medias at a polling station in Bissau on March 10, 2019, during the legislative elections in Guinea Bissau.  BISSAU, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Voting was peaceful and turnout high in Guinea-Bissau Sunday, where voters cast ballots for a new parliament with hopes…

Udate: Ethiopian Airlines grounds its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet

ADDIS ABABA, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) –Ethiopian Airlines has grounded its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet until further notice, the airline said on its Twitter account on Monday, a day after a crash killed all 157 people on board one of its planes of the same type. “Although we don’t yet know the…

More than 2,000 Central American migrants quarantined in US detention centres due to disease outbreaks

LOUISIANA (US), March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Honduran Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he’d found a lawyer to help him seek asylum. Then he was quarantined. In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie US Immigration…

Britain removes citizenship from two more Daesh brides: Report

LONDON, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain has revoked citizenship from two more women who joined the Daesh group in Syria, a newspaper reported on Sunday, raising questions about the fate of their children. The revelation follows a row over a similar decision regarding London teenager Shamima Begum, whose newborn baby died…

Sudan: Opposition leader’s daughter jailed a week over protests

KHARTOUM, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The deputy head of Sudan’s opposition Umma Party was sentenced to a week in prison for demonstrating against the president, a party official and a lawyer said. Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the daughter of Umma leader Sadiq al-Mahdi, was among a group of 16 detained while…

Dozens of police injured after clashes ahead of Ukraine poll

KIEV, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ukraine’s police said that 25 officers were injured in clashes with ultra-nationalists who tried to attack a presidential motorcade ahead of elections at the end of this month. Nineteen police officers were hospitalised in the city of Cherkasy, where supporters of the far-right National Corps…

Venezuela enters fourth day of blackout as Maduro blames US cyberattack

CARACAS, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuelans woke up to a fourth day of an unprecedented nationwide blackout on Sunday, leaving residents concerned about the impacts of the lack of electricity on the South American country’s health, communications and transport systems. “The national electrical system has been subject to multiple cyberattacks,”…

Pres Trump to ask Congress for US$8.6b for border wall

WASHINGTON, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the US Congress for an additional US$8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The demand is more than six times what…

Algeria orders early university holiday as students spur protests

ALGIERS, March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Algerian authorities ordered an early start to the spring university holiday, an apparent attempt to weaken two weeks of student-led protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The Higher Education Ministry’s decision came after tens of thousands of demonstrators packed central Algiers to challenge the veteran leader’s…

DR Congo: Mai Mai militia attacks Ebola treatment centre

GOMA (Congo), March 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Armed Mai Mai militiamen attacked an Ebola treatment centre at the heart of an outbreak of the disease in eastern DR Congo on Saturday, killing a policeman before being repelled by security forces, the local mayor said. The centre in Butembo was the same…