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Man sets self ablaze on White House lawn

Daily Dispatch May 29, 2019

A man has set himself on fire on the White House lawn, leading to adjoining streets being condoned off by the police. According to the US Secret Service, in a tweet, “At approximately 12:20 p.m. a man lit himself on fire on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave., Secret Service personnel

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4 dead as plane crashes in Dubai

Daily Dispatch May 17, 2019

A small plane crashed south of Dubai airport killing three Britons and one South African, Reuters reported the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, said in a statement on Friday, according to Middleeastmonitor.com reports. The four-seat plane, a DA42 registered in the United Kingdom, was on a mission to calibrate terrestrial navigation systems at the airport, the […]

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Insecurity — Liberia threatened with mass demonstration

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2019

By Punarimam Fehintola Liberia is still at the verge of a serious unrest if care is not taken as top political parties are set to begin a mass demonstration that may lead to insecurity that may set the country to confusion. This was contained in a country report presentation by a Liberian parliamentarian honorable Edwin […]

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Gunmen kill six in Burkina Faso Catholic church

Daily Dispatch May 12, 2019

Gunmen killed a priest and five parishioners during mass Sunday in an attack on a Catholic church in Dablo, northern Burkina Faso, security sources and a local official said. “Towards 9:00 am, during mass, armed individuals burst into the Catholic church,” the mayor of Dablo, Ousmane Zongo, told AFP. “They started firing as the congregation […]

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Germany considers ‘Mosque Tax’ to replace foreign funding

Daily Dispatch May 12, 2019

Support is growing in Germany for a “mosque tax” to make Islamic institutions less dependent on potentially anti-democratic or “radical” foreign funding sources, a media report said Sunday. The federal government sees it as “a possible path”, according to an answer to a parliamentary query, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported. Several of Germany’s 16 […]

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Guinea set to pass gender parity law this May

Daily Dispatch May 10, 2019

  By Punarimam Fehintola Across the African continent there has been a lot of glamour for women inclusiveness in government and decision making especially around the ECOWAS subregion. In this regard the government of Guinea Bissau has decided to put this issue behind it by pushing hard to ensure the gender parity bill that is […]