LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African police Wednesday uprooted cannabis plants grown by indigenous activists who have camped outside President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office for more than three years, AFP reporters saw. Their leader, wearing a traditional loincloth, clung to a shoulder-height plant as police dragged it across the presidential lawn in Pretoria before arresting him and…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. State Department on Monday advised against travel to neighboring Canada because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases as the Omicron variant spreads. The CDC elevated its travel recommendation to “Level Four: Very High” for Canada, telling Americans they should avoid…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced on Monday ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on several charges including possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The court handed down a two-year sentence to Suu Kyi for breaching the export-import law by possessing the…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Edgard Estevo, commander of the Minas Gerais State Fire Department, said the accident occurred Saturday in Furnas Lake, between the towns of Sao Jose da Barra and Capitolio. The local fire department deployed divers and helicopters in a frantic effort to rescue the stunned tourists from the lake. Police Chief Marcos…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 22 people, including 10 children, died in a popular mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stuck in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm as temperatures plummeted, officials said Saturday. Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said. Among them was an Islamabad police officer and seven other…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US has barred Ethiopia, Guinea, and Mali from accessing the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a two-decade old agreement which provides African countries with duty-free access to the US market for more than 1,800 products. The move comes two months after president Joe Biden told Congress that he plans to…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Airport staff in Mauritius have found a newborn baby boy abandoned in the rubbish bin in the toilet of a plane. A 20-year-old woman from Madagascar, suspected to have given birth on the flight, was arrested. The Air Mauritius plane, which arrived from Madagascar, landed at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport on …
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major fire ripped through South Africa’s 138-year-old Parliament complex on Sunday, gutting offices and causing some ceilings to collapse at a site that has hosted some of the country’s pivotal moments. As firefighters struggled to tame the blaze, a dark plume of smoke and flames rose high into the air above…