INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Terrorism: U.S. cautions travelers to Israel

Daily Dispatch December 30, 2018

The US State Department called on travelers to “exercise increased caution in Israel due to terrorism.” In an email to citizens registered to its Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, or STEP, the State Department noted that the security level of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza is at Level 2:

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Former defence minister arrested for alleged graft

Daily Dispatch December 29, 2018

Sierra Leone’s former defence minister has been arrested for alleged corruption in a deal to procure military supplies, an anti-corruption commission said on Saturday, the latest former government figure to be nabbed in a sprawling graft probe. Alfred Paolo Conteh was detained along with Sannah Marrah, the defence ministry’s former director general, at the Criminal […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Egyptian forces kill 40 suspected militants after tourist bus bomb

Daily Dispatch December 29, 2018

Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate raids in north Sinai and Giza, a day after a bomb attack on a tourist bus near the Giza pyramids that killed four people, according to Theguardian.co.uk reports. It was unclear whether the raids were directly connected to Friday’s attack. Egypt’s interior ministry said […]

HEALTH INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Red Alert! 24 Ebola patients abscond from treatment centre in Congo

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2018

There is palpable health threat as 24 Ebola patients slipped out of a treatment center this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The disappearance of these patients is raising fears that the virus may spread as health officials raced to trace anyone they may have encountered. According to the country’s health ministry, the patients […]

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Breaking: 19 killed, 219 wounded in Sudan protests

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2018

Clashes between Sudanese anti-riot police and protesters in demonstrations against a rise in bread prices have killed 19 people, including two security force personnel, the government said Thursday. “Nineteen people lost their lives in the incidents including two from security forces,” government spokesman Boshara Juma said on state television, adding that 219 people were

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Saudi King orders cabinet shakeup after Khashoggi killing

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2018

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including naming a new foreign minister, following international fallout from the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi nearly three months ago. Adel al-Jubeir, the soft-spoken foreign minister since 2015, was replaced by Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was formerly a finance minister. Al-Jubeir