INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Video: It’s already 2019 in New Zealand, Australia

Daily Dispatch December 31, 2018

New Zealanders have flocked to bars, restaurants, music festivals and waterfront vantage points to catch stunning fireworks displays as they celebrate the New Year 2019. But as the booze begins to flow freely around the country and behaviour rapidly descends into revelry, Kiwi emergency

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: Exercise Extreme Caution. The security warning […]

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