LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren’t able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zambia’s parliament has elected its first female speaker, days after new President Hakainde Hichilema began shaking up the government by firing security commanders and promising economic reforms. Earlier this month the long-time opposition leader was elected after campaigning to break with the past. Since his inauguration on Aug. 24, Hichilema has tried…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former British soldier’s mission to evacuate 400 Afghans via a third country has failed after a coach of his staff was turned away at a land border between Afghanistan and a third country. Ben Slater, a former soldier in the Royal Military Police who now runs a chain of NGOs, is…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-This is just a heartbreaking story. According to the American Humane Society, US citizens weren’t the only ones left behind by Joe Biden. The US military was also forced to abandon contracted working dogs according to the animal-welfare group. The AHS says these dogs are facing a certain “death sentence” by leaving…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-After a day at work, Zemari Ahmadi was just arriving at his home Sunday in Khwaja Burgha, a working-class neighborhood a few miles west of Kabul’s airport, when calamity struck. As he pulled into the driveway about 4:30 p.m., children — his own as well as those of his brothers and other…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old hunter, Kwabena Bronya, 45, has accidentally been shot dead by a gun in possession of his elder brother Kwadjo Nkrumah, 36, while on their way to poach in Pamuruso Forest in the Ashanti Region. The deceased and the suspect were siblings and both lived at Asibe-Nkwanta near Nynahin in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country without notifying aides and allies as he feared Taliban militants had gained entry to the presidential palace and planned to execute him, The Washington Post reported. The Post on Sunday reported on the chaos that engulfed the Afghan government in Kabul as militants swept…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two explosions killed dozens of people, including at least 13 U.S. troops, ripping through the crowds outside Afghanistan’s main airport on Thursday, just hours after Western governments had warned of an imminent Islamic State attack and told their people to stay away from the airport. The attack, by at least two suicide…