emmanuel akyereko

About 273,000 people have been displaced in the ongoing rebel conflict in the mineral-rich Eastern DR Congo, according to the latest report from the East African country. Congolese civilians, fleeing bombs and bullets, have overwhelmed displacement camps like Nzulo on the outskirts of Goma. M23, the rebel group, have captured major towns in Eastern Congo and have maintained a strong grip on the Goma airport. According to the United Nations, […]

Rwanda President Paul Kagame has pointed accusing fingers at South Africa for working with a rebel group in DR Congo to further distablise the East African nation. Rebel group M23 have captured the Eastern Congo town of Goma and maintain control of its airport as regional tensions hikes with casualties rising on a daily basis. Tensions between DR Congo and Rwanda have been reignited following the capture of Goma by […]

By Emmanuel Akyereko A United States of America ICE crack down on illegal immigration resulted in the arrest of about 956 persons nationwide on Sunday, the highest since Donald Trump introduced the policy. The Trump administration has expanded the detention powers of several federal agencies since the introduction of the policy with many raids recorded in Miami, Chicago, and Newark. The 47th President of the United States of America has […]

A court in Nigeria has found a lady named Rhoda Adu, guilty of collecting transportation from her boyfriend and failing to visit him as she promised. A Magistrate Court in Ilesa, Osun State in Nigeria has ruled that Ms Rhoda Adu should pay his boyfriend Olapitan Sola a sum of ¥15,000. According to the court, Sola sent a lorry fare of around ¥299 to Rhoda to visit him which she […]

By Emmanuel Akyereko A murder case witness, identified as Ashwin Mouwers, was shot dead while waiting to testify in an ongoing murder trial. Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo, the local police spokesperson, has confirmed that Mouwers was shot dead while he was about to testify as a witness in a 2021 murder case that took place in Eldorado Park, Soweto. The national police service in South Africa have launched a search […]

By Emmanuel Akyereko Ninety-eight people have been confirmed dead and several others have sustained multiple degrees of injuries when a gasoline tanker truck blasted in north central Niger during the weekend. The tragic incident happens when locals rushed to the scene with generators to siphon fuel from the tanker, triggering the explosion which left a devastating situation in the city which is close to Abuja. At least three times in […]