At least five buses carrying fighters and their families arrives in the rebel-held city of Idlib.
As evacuations from the besieged Daraya area continued for a second
day, the first buses carrying Syrian civilians and rebel fighters from
the Damascus...
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Bangladesh police 'kill main Dhaka cafe attack suspect'
Security forces claim to have killed three people, including prime suspect Bangladeshi-Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury.
Bangladesh police have stormed a house outside the capital, Dhaka,
shooting dead three people, including the main suspect...
Syria: Evacuation of Daraya begins in deal to end siege
Buses carrying residents and rebels leave Damascus suburb, as rebels prepare to cede control of area to Assad forces.
The first buses carrying local residents and rebel fighters left the
Damascus suburb of Daraya on Friday under a deal that will see...
security officer arraigned for forgery
A Security Officer, Bernard Obeto (35), appeared before the Kisutu
Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday facing six counts
of forgery, unauthorised possession of stamp and unlawful possession of
travel documents.
Obeto, who is...
Trump, advisers remain split on how far to move toward the middle
Ten days after he appointed new campaign leadership, Donald Trump and many of his closest aides and allies remain divided on whether to adopt more mainstream stances or stick with the hard-line conservative positions at the core of his candidacy, according...
Tanzania to be EA oil power center
Tanzania aims to become the first in oil and natural gas exploitation in
East Africa in ten years, Energy and Mineral Minister Prof Sospeter
Muhongo has said. Prof Muhongo said the goal would be achieved only
through a rise in the number of experts...
Chadema members arrested
2 leaders and 35 followers of Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo
(Chadema) in Simiyu and Arusha regions have been arrested and others
arraigned in courts of law for incitement.
The party leaders are Deputy Secretary
General (Isles) Salum Mwalimu...
475,000 children at risk in Lake Chad area (UN)
At least 49,000 in Nigeria's Borno state will die of malnutrition this year if they do not receive help, UNICEF warns.
Nearly half a million children around Lake Chad face "severe acute
malnutrition" due to drought and a seven-year violent campaign...
Deadly bomb attack hits police HQ in southeast Turkey
Eleven police officers killed and scores wounded in the town of Cizre close to the Syrian border, state media says.
At least 11 police officers have been killed and 70 wounded in a
truck bomb attack at a police headquarters in southeastern Turkey,...
TPDC boss ouster after CAG report
CONFLICTING reports are surfacing that the Tanzania Petroleum
Development Corporation (TPDC) Director General, Dr James Mataragio, has
been suspended by the parastatal’s Board of Directors effective
Wednesday.
Impeccable sources within the oil...
Louisiana flood victims desperate for volunteers, money
WASHINGTON — Sherry Buresh and a team of volunteers spent three days this week cleaning out a house in Denham Springs, La., that was flooded with seven feet of water. They ripped out cabinets, pulled up carpet and threw out family photos that couldn’t...
U.S. ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week
"They...
linked in dubious Mbowe Hotels Ltd deal
FORMER Prime Minister Edward Lowassa has been implicated in a
questionable joint venture agreement between the National Housing
Corporation (NHC) and Mbowe Hotels Limited (MHL) entered in 1997 where
the latter acquired 75 stake of the building housing...
Gun, bomb attack on American University in Kabul kills 12
KABUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul that sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic, police said early on Thursday, before the assault ended when two gunmen were...
oil pipeline preps
The Vice-President of Total East Africa, Mr Javier Rielo, assured
President John Magufuli that preparations for the construction of the
1,410-kilometre oil pipeline from Lake Albert in Uganda to Tanga Port in
Tanzania are in good progress, Democratic...
killings of four policemen at D’ Salaam bank
It has been a second major post-dusk robbery in less than five months.
It was also different from previous major bank heists in the country as
this time around the bandits had targeted the police and their weapons.
CRDB Microfinance Bank, Mbande Branch,...
