LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 8,000 Cameroon refugees have fled to eastern and southern Nigeria in the past two weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday, as violence flared between security forces and separatist insurgents. The spike in refugees, coming in the run-up to last weekend’s general elections, brings the total number of Cameroonians…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Sudanese medical staff deployed at Juba International Airport to screen arrivals for deadly Coronavirus have reportedly fled the airport after a plane carrying Chinese diplomats landed. South Sudan government this week begun screening all travelers at airports to help avert the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Coronaviruses are a…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of demonstrators in cities across Iran faced tear gas and accused security forces of firing live ammunition as police aggressively countered intensifying protests prompted by the downing of a Ukrainian commercial jet. The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran posted video of crowds fleeing tear gas clouds in Tehran’s Freedom…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)_Pandemonium broke out Sunday Evening in Damaturu at about 6:10 pm the Yobe state capital as gunshots and heavy artillery rented the air. According to a flawless report from an eye witness said the insurgents are trying to penetrate Damaturu from a nearby village, Babaginda but the heavy firepower of the military…