October 2021

Lebanon has no centrally-generated electricity after the country’s two biggest power stations shut down due to a fuel shortage, plunging six million people into darkness.

Production stopped at Zahrani power station today hours after the Deir Ammar plant shuttered yesterday when diesel supplies were reportedly exhausted.

A government official confirmed the country’s power network ‘completely stopped working at noon today’ and warned production was unlikely to restart ‘until next Monday, or for several days’. The official said the state electricity company would try to use the army’s fuel oil reserve to operate the power plants temporarily, but that would not …

Telecommunication giant, MTN Nigeria has reacted to the service outage experienced by some subscribers on Saturday afternoon.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that MTN subscribers in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and some other parts of the country, at about 2:30pm experienced network outage as they could not connect to the network.

Some of the users who stormed the social media to lament the situation, said there was no notification prior to the outage.

Reacting, MTN which has over 77.35 million subscribers in the country, said it is working towards restoring normalcy in the affected areas.

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The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Saturday announced that its Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) will commence strike on Monday.

The union gave ‘deplorable state of the nation’s highways and other issues as the reason for the strike

Mr Tayo Aboyeji, South-West Zonal Chairman of NUPENG, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said the union has lost many lives and property due to bad roads.

According to him, all tanker drivers from the union would withdraw their services nationwide.

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The Taliban on Saturday warned the United States not to ‘destabilise’ the regime during their first face-to-face talks since the US withdrawal.

This is coming even as a deadly sectarian bombing has now’ raised further questions about their grip on power.

As mourners in northern Afghanistan buried their dead from an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 62, a Taliban delegation warned US officials in Doha that any weakening of their government could cause ‘problems for the people’.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that scores more worshippers were wounded in Friday’s blast in Kunduz, which was …

Ethiopian troops and their allies on Saturday launched air and ground strikes against Tigray rebels in the northern region of Amhara, humanitarian and rebel sources have revealed.

A spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been locked in a brutal conflict with pro-government forces in northern Ethiopia for 11 months, told reporters there was a ‘massive move’ presently ongoing against the rebels.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that barely five days ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a new term after a landslide election win, vowing to defend ‘Ethiopia’s honour’ despite mounting international …

A suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz has left no fewer than 55 people dead in what has been described as the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country in August.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that many of the victims from the minority community were wounded in Friday’s blast, an attack which has now been claimed by the Islamic State group.

The attack appears designed to further destabilise Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover.

The regional branch of the rabidly sectarian IS has repeatedly targeted Shiites …

No fewer than 100 people are believed to be either dead or missing following the sinking of a makeshift vessel on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo disclosed on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday. a spokesman for the governor of the northwestern province of Mongala, Nestor Magbado, stated that fifty-one bodies had been recovered by late Friday from the sinking during the night of Monday to Tuesday, and another 69 are believed to be still missing.

He disclosed that luckily, there were 39 survivors.

With no manifest of the passengers on board, the number …