LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kremlin’s first mission to the Moon for nearly 50 years has crashed into the surface, destroying Vladimir Putin’s ambitions of winning a new space race. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, said that it lost contact with the uncrewed Luna-25 as it was orbiting the Moon ahead of a planned landing. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi border guards fired rockets at migrants crossing from Yemen in a campaign of barbaric killings, a major new investigation has found. Crowds of migrants fleeing turmoil in the Horn of Africa were allegedly shot with rifles and blown up with rocket launcher-like weapons as they sought to cross by land into…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Several thousand people demonstrated in the capital of Niger on Sunday in support of last month’s military coup, whose leader has warned against outside intervention while proposing a three-year transition of power. The demonstrators chanted slogans hostile to former colonial power France and the West African regional bloc ECOWAS, which is considering…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of Niger’s junta were forced on Saturday to halt a census of people willing to volunteer for non-military roles in defence against a possible intervention by West African powers, saying they had been overwhelmed by the numbers who turned up. Thousands of mostly young men had massed outside a stadium in…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger’s military ruler General Abdourahamane Tchiani, who ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and seized power in a coup, has proposed a return to democracy within three years. Neither the junta “nor the people of Niger want war and remain open to dialogue,” General Tchiani said during a televised address on Saturday evening. He…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGES)-Several soldiers from Niger have been killed in various attacks by armed groups in the West African nation, the regional bloc said late Wednesday. The 15-member Economic Community of West African States condemned the attacks in a statement and called on the military leadership to restore constitutional order so as to…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iván Andaur, 56, was piloting the plane from Miami, Florida to Santiago, Chile on Sunday night when he tragically collapse and died leaving the plane pilotless. He collapsed and died in the bathroom of a LATAM 787 Dreamliner he was flying forcing his two co-pilots to make an emergency landing. Iván Andaur,…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father. The Interior Ministry identified the executed man as Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef and said he beat and then strangled his Egyptian father to death. It also said Naseef used narcotics, mutilated his father’s body after his…
