December 2021

Rescuers in Indonesia raced to find survivors in villages blanketed by molten ash Sunday after the eruption of Mount Semeru which left no fewer than 13 people killed and dozens injured.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the eruption of the biggest mountain on the island of Java caught locals by surprise on Saturday, sending thousands fleeing and forcing hundreds of families into makeshift shelters.

No fewer than 11 villages of Lumajang district in East Java were coated in volcanic ash, submerging houses and vehicles, smothering livestock, and leaving at least 900 evacuees seeking shelter in mosques, schools, and …

Divers recovered seven more bodies Sunday from a bus that was swept off a bridge by a flooding river in Kenya, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to over 30.

The bus was taking a church choir and other travellers to a wedding in Kitui County on Saturday when it keeled over and sank beneath fast-flowing waters as the driver tried to navigate a submerged bridge.

Twelve passengers managed to scramble to safety but most aboard the stricken bus were unable to escape before it was swallowed by the muddy tide.

Kitui governor Charity Ngilu said 31 bodies …

Over 100,000 persons have signed two petitions on the Change.org platform, demanding the immediate prosecution of all the culprits responsible for the gruesome murder of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, who was a boarding student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos.

The first petition started by a family member of the deceased, Timi Oromoni, titled, ‘Justice For Sylvester Oromoni Jnr’ has attracted over 65,000 signatures as of 1pm on Sunday evening.

The petition which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York partly read, ‘On Tuesday 30/11/2021 we lost our brother 12 years old Sylvester Oromoni Jnr…He was taken …

The United Kingdom has disclosed that Nigeria has been added to its red list category as it looks to tighten travel restrictions in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron.

‘From 0400 on Monday 6 December, Nigeria will be added to the red list for entering England,’ the UK government’s travel advisory on Nigeria said.

This means Nigerians who do not have UK citizenship or residence permit can no longer travel to the country until the advisory is revised.

The rule applies to even fully vaccinated persons.

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Authorities in Panama have seized a record haul of drug money — more than $10 million in cash — in a crackdown on gangs linked to neighboring Colombia’s embattled Gulf Clan.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that it took investigators more than 12 hours to add up the money using a dozen machines, several of which failed under the strain, the prosecutor’s office said.

The money was found in three different hiding places in a house in Nueva Providencia in the Caribbean province of Colon.

‘This is, without a doubt, the largest seizure of drug trafficking money made in …