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Saudi Airstrike In Yemen Kills Family, Including Children

Daily Dispatch August 6, 2017

At least twelve civilians have been killed in two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s northern province of Saada, a heartland of the Houthi rebels. Rebel-controlled SABA news agency reported that planes bombed a house in the town of al-Safra, killing nine residents including four

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Governor, sibling killed by militants

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2017

Mr. Mohamed Dahir Elmi, the governor of Galgadud in the central Somalia region, and his sibling have been killed in Yakshid, a northern suburb of the capital. They were reported to have been killed by Al Shabaab militants on Friday night in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Africa Review reports that Al Shabaab militants shot dead […]

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US submit notice of withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord to UN

Daily Dispatch August 5, 2017

The United States has submitted to the United Nations a formal notice  of withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement. The notification was made Friday, with the UN  Secretary-General António Guterres  appealing  to the U.S. to reconsider its action, in the interest of humanity. President Donald Trump had announced on June 1, 2017 that the U.S. would leave […]

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UN: Child soldiers in Congo drink victims’ blood

Daily Dispatch August 4, 2017

Child soldiers in Congo were drinking the blood of their victims in a magic ritual meant to make them invincible, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights warned on Friday. The Kamuina Nsapu militia, which regularly stages attacks in the central Kasai region, largely used boys and girls as fighters, many of them between the […]

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Al Qaeda frees South Africa’s McGowan 6 years after

Daily Dispatch August 3, 2017

Stephen McGowan, the South African who was kidnapped by al Qaeda from the Mali tourist town of Timbuktu in 2011, has been released and is back home, foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday. McGowan, who had been touring Mali on motorbikes with a German, a Swede and a Dutch national, was undergoing medical tests […]

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Russia retaliates, takes over U.S house

Daily Dispatch August 2, 2017

Russian authorities on Wednesday took over a summer-house compound in Moscow leased by the U.S. embassy, five days after the Kremlin ordered Washington to slash its diplomatic presence in Russia. In retaliation for new U.S. sanctions, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the United States to cut around 60 per cent of its diplomatic staff in […]