“The grenade was thrown by unidentified criminals… Two people were killed on the spot and eight more were evacuated to nearby hospitals,” said a local official who asked not to be named.
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Lt. Jules Ngongo said 17 militiamen were killed at Bese and the remainder at nearby Kabakaba, to the north of Bunia. Bese is some 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the provincial capital Bunia.
“We note with concern that the Western Cape and Eastern Cape combined comprises 84 percent of the total new cases,” Health Minister, Zwelini Mkhize said.
Ashu Prisley Ojong is one of the first senior elected official to be killed in the conflict between Cameroon’s army and English-speaking militias.
His lawyer Mahamoudou Ahamada said the former leader was being illegally detained as “the legal terms of preventive detention (eight months) have been exceeded, and no judge has charged him with anything.
Lagos, a city of some 20 million people, has been the country’s main hotspot and the daily increase in recorded cases has doubled in the past few days.
Heath officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have already warned that COVID-19 could spread exponentially through the country in the first two weeks of May.
The unrests in the last two weeks commenced with a riot in the maximum prison in Freetown, which claimed 12 lives. Then there were riots in at least two other districts, amidst conflicting reports about the number of deaths. President Bio blamed opposition APC for the unrest.
Anselme Amoussou, general secretary of one of the country’s largest labour organisation, said testing remained “insufficient”.
Former Communications Minister, Bereket Simon was found guilty on two counts, of corruption and mismanagement of the institution, court spokesman, Tazebachew Tassie said.