Tag Archives: BBC News

By Kalkidan Yibeltal & Natasha Booty BBC News, Addis Ababa and London More than 200 people have starved to death since July in Edaga Arbi town, in Ethiopia’s drought-hit and war-scarred Tigray region, local authorities say. Another 16 have died in nearby Adwa town. Officials in Tigray warn the region is on the brink of famine on a scale last ...

By Chris Ewokor & Natasha Booty BBC News, Abuja and London Nigeria’s first lady has joined the chorus of voices condemning the killing of a student abducted along with her five sisters, calling it a “devastating loss”. Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar, 21, was “super-bright, smart and kind”, her cousin Asiya Adamu told the BBC on Monday. Nabeeha also loved to write poetry ...

Source: https://bbc.com/africalive Ugandan authorities are holding Kenya’s former Assistant Minister for Internal Security Stephen Tarus on allegations of smuggling gold into the country using forged documents. Mr Tarus was arrested last week and arraigned before a Ugandan anti-corruption court on Wednesday for falsification of export documents, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) said.  The illegal trade documentation led to substantial financial ...

By Moses Kollie Garzeawu BBC News, Monrovia Liberia’s former chief justice and justice minister Gloria Maya Musu-Scott has been sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of her niece. It marks the fall from grace of one of Liberia’s most famous judges and politicians, who prided herself as a champion of women rights.  Musu-Scott, 70, is now in ...

By Nadine Yousif BBC News At least three people have died and over half a million homes are without power after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada. Strong winds flipped cars and knocked over homes in Florida, where several tornadoes were reported.  More than 1,300 flights in or out of the ...

By Marita Moloney & Patrick Jackson BBC News Masked gunmen have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened terrified staff. Employees were forced on to the floor during the broadcast by the public television channel TC in the city of Guayaquil before the live feed cut out. Police say they later freed all the staff and made ...

By Jonathan Amos The company behind America’s latest mission to soft-land on the Moon is battling to save the project. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic says its Peregrine spacecraft has a faulty propulsion system that’s lost “critical” amounts of fuel. The issue has already made it difficult for the craft to point its solar panels at the Sun to generate electricity and may ...

By Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner BBC News, Africa Eye Evidence of widespread abuse and torture by the founder of one of the world’s biggest Christian evangelical churches has been uncovered by the BBC. Dozens of ex-Synagogue Church of all Nations members – five British – allege atrocities, including rape and forced abortions, by Nigeria’s late TB Joshua. The allegations ...

By Chloe Kim  BBC News, New York A student shot six people, one of them fatally, at a high school in the US state of Iowa before taking his own life on the first day back from holiday break, police said.  A “pretty rudimentary” improvised explosive device was found by investigators at Perry High School, police said, and rendered safe.  ...

By Graeme Baker BBC News First came the shock, as the Airbus A350 carrying 379 people collided with a second plane while landing in Tokyo. Then came heat and smoke as the jet sped along the runway in flames.  Then survival instinct kicked in, as people scrambled to flee a cabin filling with fumes, knowing that lives depended on the ...