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Extremists attack hotel in Nairobi; al-Shabab claims role

Daily Dispatch January 15, 2019

Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex. A police officer said he saw bodies, “but there was no time to count the dead.” Al-Shabab — the Somalia-based

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Zimbabwean protest fuel price hike

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2019

Protesters in Zimbabwe on Monday barricaded the main roads into major cities to protest a fuel price hike announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. According to video footage from the Centre for Innovation & Technology, police fired teargas to disperse youths protesting outside the high court in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo. In the southern city […]

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I5 killed as cargo plane crash

Daily Dispatch January 14, 2019

A Boeing 707 cargo plane traveling from Kyrgyzstan crashed on Monday while trying to land west of Tehran, the Iranian capital, state media reported, and an emergency official said that only one of the 16 on board was known to have survived. Fire immediately engulfed the aircraft after it skidded off a runway and crashed […]

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Obama protege Julian Castro joins 2020 Presidential race against Trump

Daily Dispatch January 13, 2019

Julian Castro, the telegenic former mayor of San Antonio, Texas and Obama-era cabinet member, launched his bid to become the nation’s first Hispanic president Saturday, emphasizing a message of hope and diversity at a time when Americans are locked in angry debate over immigration and border security. “I am a candidate for president of the […]

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Breaking: Two police, Two civilians killed in DR Congo vote result protest

Daily Dispatch January 10, 2019

Two police and two civilians were killed in the western DR Congo city of Kikwit Thursday when police intervened to end protests over the outcome of presidential elections, security forces said. “In the operation to restore public order today in Kikwit, two policemen and two civilian were killed. We also recorded 10 wounded,” city police […]

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Kidnappers demand $10m in cryptocurrency for wife of businessman

Daily Dispatch January 9, 2019

Kidnappers who took Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, wife of a wealthy Norwegian businessman, are demanding $10m ransom in cryptocurrency. Anne-Elisabeth, 68, the wife of real estate investor Tom Hagen, went missing on Oct. 31, but news of her disappearance had not previously been disclosed and police said they could not confirm whether she was still alive. “There […]