LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-seven civilians were killed in a region of western Niger that has been battered by jihadist incursions from neighbouring Mali, local sources said Tuesday. “Armed men who arrived on motorbikes” attacked the village of Darey-Daye in the Tillaberi region on Monday afternoon as people were working in the fields, a local official…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that human remains were found inside the wheel well of a C-17 military plane that had been swarmed by hundreds of people on the tarmac as it took off at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The discovery was made upon landing at al Udeid Air…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no longer news that the Islamist Movement and Military organization known as Taliban has taken control of key facilities and cities in Afghanistan after taking control of the country’s capital, Kabul. This recent development occured after the US government withdrew it’s military forces away from the country in honour of…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of stowaways appear to have fallen to a horrific death from an aircraft leaving Kabul. Footage showed countless people jumping aboard the outside of a US Air Force plane seemingly trying to take off from a runway in the Afghan capital. In one footage, as an Apache helicopter attempts to…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has petitioned the United States government, demanding fairness from the Joe Biden-led administration in the matter involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. The group, which expressed worry over the trajectory around Kyari’s case, also asked the US…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 Sunday as rescuers raced to find survivors amid the rubble ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm. Saturday’s earthquake left at least 2,800 injured in the Caribbean island nation, with thousands more displaced from…
Zambia’s veteran opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote. Hichilema was declared president–elect by Esau Chulu, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia, early Monday after results for 155 of the country’s 156 constituencies were announced. Hichilema, a 59-year old businessman contesting the…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form…