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…
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…