South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his former deputy as well as the country’s main rebel group leader Riek Machar have signed a ceasefire and power-sharing agreement puting an end to a prolonged civil war. “I call on everyone as a leader of South Sudan that this agreement which we have signed today should be […]
The number of deaths in yesterday’s Chicago shooting has reached five people while other 44 are still nursing wounds. The incident, according to reports, happened within three hours beginning at 1:30 a.m in which 30 were shot and two killed in 10 incidents.The Sunday shootings occurred between midnight and 2 p.m., records show. “The city […]
A devastating wildfire that has burned more than 150,000 acres in Northern California has reportedly killed another victim, marking the seventh death since the blaze ignited in Shasta County last month. A spokesperson for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) told the press that a crew member had died while working in the area of the […]
A massive, out-of-control Northern California wildfire that destroyed 68 homes and forced thousands to flee has become the fifth largest in state history, officials said on Sunday, as crews battled high temperatures and strong winds. The Mendocino Complex Fire, made up of two separate conflagrations that merged near Ukiah, north of Sacramento, exploded by 25 percent overnight […]
Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited has received land from Ghana King, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, to build a factory and manufacture HIV/Aids drugs in Ghana. The king’s decision was made upon the request of CIPLA chemicals chief executive, Mr Emmanuel Katongole, on the former’s first visit to the factory, to allow them to export drugs […]
The democratic republic of Congo has been hit by yet another Ebola outbreak just days after the termination of the previous one. Reports from the country indicated Ebola tracks in its conflict-torn east province of North Kivu. 20 people have been reported dead from the epidemic in the Beni region of North Kivu -which homes […]
Israel offered to help Greece put out deadly wildfires that killed dozens of people on Monday and Tuesday and ravaged resort areas. The death toll from the fires climbed to 50 in the morning, with a Red Cross official reporting the discovery of 26 more bodies at a seaside resort, making it the country’s deadliest […]
Survivors of the major forest fires that ravaged a seaside area of Greece say the flames came upon them in “the blink of an eye”, forcing them to flee into the sea or drive through the smoke to escape. The fires have killed at least 74 people and injured 187, officials said, and Greek Prime […]
According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency over 60 people have died and other 35,000 hospitalized as a result of the extraordinary heat wave in Japan that the government officials have declared a “natural disaster” on Tuesday July 24. Among those killed was a six-year-old school boy who became unconsciousness on his way back […]
Fire swept through the village 40km (25 miles) north-east of Athens on Monday and was still burning in some areas on Tuesday. Desperate families trying to reach the safety of the sea were trapped by walls of smoke and flame. Others died in buildings or cars. After the 26 bodies were found in an open […]