LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protests against the Taliban have now spread to more Afghan cities, and several more people have been killed at the rallies according to witnesses, by either the militants firing their weapons or the panic and stampedes caused by it. This video was filmed by Reuters near one of the protests in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll in an attack on civilians and military personnel in northern Burkina Faso has climbed to at least 80. That’s according to the country’s regional Sahel government on Thursday. The attack happened on Wednesday, when Islamist militants raided a convoy being escorted by military police. Security forces said at least…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ugandan government said on Friday it had ordered more than 50 non-governmental organisations to suspend operations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society. The 54 groups affected include the country’s most prominent rights organisation, Chapter Four, as well as charities, religious, environmental and electoral democracy groups….
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A small wildfire swept through a mobile home park, leaving dozens of homes in ashes, the latest in a series of explosive blazes propelled by gusts that have torn through Northern California mountains and forests. The drought-parched region was expected to see red flag warnings for dangerously high winds and hot, dry…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban must immediately cease attacking journalists and searching their homes, and allow members of the press to operate freely and without fear of violence or reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Since the Taliban took power in the country earlier this week, militants have searched the homes of at…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people were missing in North Carolina after the county that was inundated with flooding rains from Tropical Depression Fred on Tuesday. The post-tropical cyclone drenched the western mountainous region of the state, washing out bridges, swamping homes and igniting landslides. Haywood County was particularly hard-hit, and about 35 people there…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (EWSRANGERS)-Heartbreaking footage of a US military aircraft leaving Kabul this week showed at least one person falling to their death. The small dot of a person plunging back to earth highlighted how desperate people were to escape the Taliban after the militant organisation seized control of the country. Thousands of people stormed…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government…