War

Ukraine War: Briton Dies While Volunteering As Medic

September 1, 2022 4:46 am

Reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has it that a British man who is volunteering as a medic the ongoing war in Ukraine has been reportedly killed on duty.

Craig Mackintosh, who hails from Thetford, Norfolk, was killed while in the line of duty – this happened on the 24th of August – Lorna Mackintosh confirmed.

Meanwhile, in an effort to transport her brother’s body home, Ms. Mackintosh raised over £5,000 on a GoFundMe page appealing to people to ‘Please help us bring this war hero home.’

According to the Foreign Office, the family is being …

Crisis Looms As South Sudan Extends Transitional Govt By 2 Yrs

August 5, 2022 2:40 am

A further crisis could be looming after South Sudan’s leaders on Thursday announced that the country’s post-war transitional government would remain in power two years beyond an agreed deadline, in a move foreign partners warned lacked legitimacy.

Accorording to Martin Elia Lomuro, the minister of cabinet affairs the decision was arrived at ‘to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement’, following a 2018 deal to end a five-year civil war that left nearly 400,000 people dead.

‘Thus a new roadmap has been agreed,’ the minister submitted, speaking in the presence of President Salva Kiir and Vice …

Ukraine War: Russia Accuses US Of ‘Direct Involvement’

August 3, 2022 6:20 am

The government of the United States has been accused by Russia of direct involvement in the Ukraine war, as the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow’s invasion continued its passage to Lebanon without problems.

Moscow declared on Tuesday that it was reacting to remarks made by Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of military intelligence for Ukraine, regarding the manner in which Kyiv used long-range HIMARS rocket launch systems provided by the US based on what he referred to as excellent satellite imagery and real-time information.

While claiming that US officials were withholding specific target information, Skibitsky …

Ukrainian Cargo Plane Conveying Weapons Crashes In Greece

July 18, 2022 2:55 am

All eight crew members of a Ukrainian-operated cargo plane carrying military goods were killed on Sunday when crashed in Greece en route from Serbia to Bangladesh, the Serbian defence minister has confirmed.

Witnesses who saw the crash said that they saw the privately operated Antonov plane on fire and heard explosions.

Videos shared on social media which were sighted by Africa Daily News, New York showed the aircraft as it was engulfed by a giant fireball as it hit the ground late on Saturday in Paleochori village near the Greek city of Kavala.

‘Sadly, according to the information we …

Russia Begins Use Of Advanced Hypersonic Missiles In Ukraine

March 19, 2022 9:00 am

Russian authorities have revealed that she used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine yesterday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west.

This was made known by the defence ministry on Saturday.

Russia has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflict in pro-Western Ukraine.

“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk …

‘Surrender Now’, Putin Warns Ukrainian Fighters

March 7, 2022 5:42 am

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin has demanded the surrender of Ukrainian forces, as he vowed to press ahead with his ceaseless offensive as the war entered its tenth day.

According to him, the Ukrainian resistance force should immediately discontinue the fighting to enable the evacuation of 200,000 people from the besieged city of Mariupol.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the evacuation was impossible for the second day as Russian shelling continued on Sunday.

Most people trapped in the port city are sleeping underground to escape more than six days of near-constant shelling by encircling Russian forces that …