LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At the summit in Accra, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave Mali’s military transitional government 12 to 16 months to arrange elections and offered Guinea’s ruling junta a month to propose a timeline for democratic transition. They also demanded Burkina Faso’s interim leaders immediately release President Roch…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a $24 million federal lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee launched a wide-ranging “unthinkable plot” in 2016 to smear him and his campaign as colluding with Russian officials. In the suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, Trump claims the goal was…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At 9am CET on Wednesday 23 March climate activists from Uganda will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican, calling on the leader of the Catholic Church to support their campaign to stop the construction of thePope Francis To Meet Uganda Activists Campaign To Stop Construction Of east Africa Crude Oil…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of soldiers were killed when Russian troops bombed a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, witnesses told AFP on Saturday while a rescue operation was underway. “No fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks” when Russian troops struck early Friday, a Ukrainian serviceman on the ground,…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The president of Turkey, South Korea’s prime minister and other officials inaugurated a massive suspension bridge Friday over the Dardanelles Strait that connects the European and Asian shores of the key waterway. With a a 2,023-meter (6,637 feet) span between its towers, the “1915 Canakkale Bridge” becomes the world’s longest suspension bridge,…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian ambassador on Thursday said Bosnia and Herzegovina could face the same military aggression unleashed on Ukraine if the country joins NATO. Igor Kalbukhov made the remarks during an interview with broadcaster FTV on Thursday. He noted that the country is free to join the 30-member alliance but that Moscow would…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian missiles continued to devastate major cities across Ukraine on Friday — as rescuers desperately tried to reach as many as 1,300 people feared trapped for two days below the rubble of a blown-up theater. The early-morning barrages included strikes on capital Kyiv, where at least one person was killed when six…
LAGOS MMARCH 17TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia’s…
