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Breaking: US intercepts suspect packages sent to Clinton, Obama

Daily Dispatch October 24, 2018

The US Secret Service on Wednesday said it had intercepted suspect packages, identified as potential explosive devices, sent to the homes of former President Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. The Secret Service said it recovered a single package addressed to Clinton in

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Investment summit: World CEOs abandon Saudi over Khashoggi

Daily Dispatch October 23, 2018

Saudi Arabia is in “crisis” in the face of international outrage over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Tuesday at an investment summit boycotted by a host of global CEOs and policymakers. The three-day Future Investment Initiative (FII) was meant to project the historically insular petro-state as a lucrative business […]

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85-year-old Biya wins Cameroon’s presidential election again

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2018

Eighty-five-year-old Paul Biya has been declared winner of the October 7 presidential election by the Cameroon’s Constitutional Council. Biya won the poll with 71.28% of the votes cast beating eight other candidates to extend his 36-year rule of the Central African country to 2025. Opposition leader, Prof Maurice Kamto who had earlier declared himself winner […]

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Xenophobia: 9 Nigerian-owned shops burnt in South Africa

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2018

As Xenophobia on Sunday reared its ugly head again in South Africa, Nigerians have lost more than nine shops to arsonists in Hillbrow, central Johannesburg. The Publicity Secretary of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr Habib Miller, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Pretoria on Monday that South Africans allegedly […]

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3 dead,18 trapped in Chinese coal mining accident

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2018

The death toll in a coal mine accident in eastern China has climbed to three after one of the miners who was rescued died after receiving medical treatment. Eighteen remain trapped underground, according to a state broadcaster. The accident happened in Shandong province late Saturday night after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining […]

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UN, Britain demand punishment of those behind Khashoggi’s death

Daily Dispatch October 20, 2018

The UN chief, Britain’s foreign ministry and media groups on Saturday called for the punishment of those who ordered and carried out Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in Istanbul. Here are a few reactions: UN “The Secretary-General stresses the need for a prompt, thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Mr Khashoggi’s death and […]