Guinea’s transitional president, General Mamadi Doumbouya, has granted a presidential pardon to former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara, less than a year after his conviction for crimes against humanity. The decision, announced on Friday, comes just nine months after Camara was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the September 28, 2009,…
World football heavyweight Brazil have sacked their manager Dorival Junior after losing 4-1 to arch-rivals Argentina in a World Cup qualifier this week. They sit fourth in the South American group, having lost five of 14 games, although are still well placed to qualify for the 2026 finals. 62-year-old Dorival, who has managed a host…
American rapper, Young Scooter was sh0t and k!lled on his 39th birthday on Friday in a freak accident that occurred while fleeing a confrontation with police. The hip-hop artist, whose real name is Kenneth Edward Bailey, died at Grady Marcus Trauma Center in Atlanta after sustaining an injury to his leg while jumping a…
Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” is free. He was released Tuesday from Israeli custody, less than a day after Israeli military and police detained him and three other people following a brutal attack Monday by settlers in the occupied West Bank. Ballal was released…
The Anambra State Police Command has refuted reports of casualties in a fire that engulfed a two-storey building storing textile materials on Ifejika Street, near the Main Market in Onitsha. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, reaffirmed that no lives were lost in…
