LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Taliban fighters moved Sunday into Afghanistan’s capital city, the nation’s leader fled. President Ashraf Ghani flew from Kabul to an unknown destination. At least one news report said he traveled to Uzbekistan. Later Sunday, Ghani posted an explanation for his exit, saying if he stayed, more Afghans would die and “bloodshed”…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rescue workers in Afghanistan searched Wednesday for survivors of flash floods that killed more than 100 people and destroyed hundreds of houses near Kabul, officials said. Troops pulled dozens of victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, after torrential overnight rains fuelled fierce floods that swept…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four judges were killed in an alleged Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Logar, officials said on Thursday. Provincial Council Members, Hasibullah Stanekzai and Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, announced this in Kabul. The judges were on their way to Kabul, from the southern province of Paktiya, when their car was targeted by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. The migrants, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition but seven received first aid in hospital, the police said. “The truck contained men and boys. Identifying their nationality will require…