Avellon Williams LIBYA – The Italian coast guard confirmed Sunday that a boat carrying over 40 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast as a cargo ship tried to save them. “During the rescue operations by the motor vessel… the boat capsized during the transfer of the migrants: 17 people were rescued and recovered by the vessel […]
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Avellon Williams ZIMBABWE- Precious Sibalo, a 35-year-old Zimbabwean who served as a flight waitress for 12 years, has now been licensed as a commercial pilot. However, her ambitions to become a pilot were thwarted once she was given to her grandmother in Magwegwe, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where she also attended school. On a school trip to the airport, she saw pilots and […]
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Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- An illness causing vomiting and diarrhoea has affected more than 300 passengers and crew members on the Ruby Princess. According to CruiseMapper, Princess Cruises carried about 4000 people on its voyage from February 26 to Sunday (Monday NZT) in the western Caribbean. In a statement, Princess Cruises said the cause is likely […]
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Avellon Williams SOUTH AFRICA- “I’d never touched a computer — but I knew how valuable these skills were, and here was an opportunity being handed to me.” A poor township kid from South Africa, Tim Hogins grew up in a poor household. On weekends, he watched kids pile into buses headed to Sun City knowing he would not […]
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Avellon Williams RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA – Rivers State APC governorship candidate, Tonye Cole, has said that anyone who interferes with the due electoral process on March 11 will have to choose between life and death. In a stakeholder meeting on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Cole urged the Igbo community of Rivers state to shun all fear and vote for […]
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Avellon Williams MISSISSIPPI, USA- “Maybe Charles’s age will stop us from having children but I have an open mind, it may not work.” Having two kids with her 85-year-old husband is her goal, according to a 24-year-old Mississippi woman. Miracle Pogue told Kennedy News that her husband’s age wasn’t a determining factor when they started dating. […]
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Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- If current patterns continue, the World Obesity Federation predicts that 51% of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035. In its recent Atlas report, the federation estimates that the economic costs will amount to US$4.3 trillion by 2035, which amounts to 3% of global GDP, similar to the […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- According to the NGO Reseau National de Defense des Droits Humains (RNDDH), 60 people have died and 50 are missing in Port-au-Prince after armed gangs clashed in just eight days. As shots were heard in the Haitian capital this Monday, the RNDDH figures were merely a provisional estimate of the deaths that occurred between […]
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Avellon Williams UGANDA- “If I could see a responsible man, I could marry him and have more children.” A woman named Mariam gave birth to 44 children by a man in Uganda, making her the most prolific woman in the country. It wasn’t long before her husband left her, and she was left to take care […]
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Avellon Williams SIERRA LEONE- Carpentry isn’t just for men. Nyillah E. Cawray is a young Sierra Leonean undergraduate who aims to challenge the stereotypical narrative about females in the male-dominated profession of carpentry. She has extensive knowledge of woodworking and styles, aside from her educational career. Nyillah Cawray was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city. The Annie Walsh Memorial School was […]
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