Yahaya Yari, Chairman, Talata Mafara Local Government in Zamfara, confirmed the death of two persons following a locally made gun powder explosion that occured on Tuesday at a weekly market in Talata Mafara town. Yari, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Wednesday, said the ugly…
No fewer than 25 people died in a stampede which occurred in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh during the early hours of Wednesday. This is according to local news TV channel Aajtak. The official death toll and the number of injured people were expected to be announced soon, the report said. The stampede occurred…
A plane with 21 people on board crashed in South Sudan on Wednesday, leaving 18 people dead, including two pilots, South Sudan Eagles Media reported. It added that three others are in critical condition. “A plane carrying 21 passengers, including the pilot, has crashed while departing from Unity Oil Field, killing 18 people and leaving…
Wars and extreme weather conditions have driven up the number of people in Africa who are fleeing within their own country. A report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), published in Geneva on Tuesday, says around 35 million Africans are living as refugees and displaced people within their own countries as of 2023. The…
The search for missing people in the area of eastern Spain hit by severe flooding continued on Monday, almost a week after the disaster claimed more than 200 lives. Attention is now focused on a shopping centre in Aldaia, a suburb of the provincial capital Valencia. Water is being pumped out of the underground car…
More than 22 people died and another two dozen were injured when the bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand on Monday. The local police officer said over phone. The mishap occurred in Marchula area of the state’s Almora district at around 08:30 a.m., said the…
More than 2.8 billion people in the world cannot afford healthy diets, the Director-General of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu, has said. Dongyu made this known during the 2024 World Food Day global ceremony with the theme: “Right to ‘Foods’ for a Better Life and a Better Future”. ‘Foods’, in…
