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Recently, the Los Angeles area has been ravaged by wildfires, tragically claiming at least ten lives and leaving nearly 10,000 structures in ruins. As five fires, fueled by unrelenting desert winds, continue raging into a third night, the situation remains dire. The Palisades Fire, located between Santa Monica and Malibu, along with the Eaton Fire near Pasadena, has become infamous for their destruction, marking them as some of the most catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles history. These infernos have already scorched over…

Breaking Barriers: Lt. Col. Mwagandi Paves the Way as KDF’s First Female Guard of Honour Leader NAIROBI, Kenya - A seismic shift happened in Kenya on Sunday when Lt. Colonel Faith Mwagandi stepped into the spotlight as the trailblazer—Van Gogh with a paintbrush of valor—becoming the pioneer woman to craft a Guard of Honour for the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) at a prominent national celebration. Commanding the troops during the 61st Mashujaa Day gala in Kwale, lodged on Kenya’s sunlit southern coast, the KDF recognized this…

On the third day of the trial of Guillaume Soro and 19 of his relatives for "conspiracy" and "attempt to undermine state authority", the court tried to understand why weapons were found in the lagoon in Assinie. During the hearing, Commander Jean-Baptiste Kassé Kouamé admitted that he had ordered his men on December 23, 2019 to destroy weapons stored at GPS's political movement quarters and throw them…

Ocean Viking, the boat from NGO SOS Méditerranée, completed its eleventh rescue mission in the central Mediterranean this week. He arrived on Tuesday at the Italian port of Augusta where the 116 people he rescued outside the Mediterranean could disembark. The crew carried out two interventions, one of which disrupted the role played by the Libyan security forces.…

How did overwhelming peaceable protests in opposition to police brutality flip right into a bloodbath in Lagos? Anger continues to be palpable in Africa's largest metropolis after the military allegedly opened fireplace on unarmed protesters within the metropolis middle. Amnesty Worldwide says no less than 12 folks had been killed. Why the carnage at Lekki Toll Plaza? What response from Nigeria's…

The Libyan government in Tripoli announced on Friday, October 16, the arrest of a Coast Guard official suspected of human trafficking, including migrants to Europe. Captain Abdelrahman Milad - known as "Al-Bidja" - was a senior official of the Coast Guard in Zawiya, about fifty kilometers west of Tripoli. His name is on a list…