Posted by: twingecko56 on: May 13, 2010
Afriqiyah Airways suffered a major setback on Wednesday as one of their Airbus A330-200 aircraft crashed in Libya. The 253 seater airplane succeeded in saving only one passenger; a ten year old Dutch boy. Now, with the black boxes recovered, begins the process of determining just what caused this disaster. Libyan authorities have already ruled [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: March 24, 2010
Hussein Hashi Farah was in Kenyan custody on allegations of involvement in a terror attempt on Australia; the operative word being “was”. The prisoner was released from his incarceration in what at first appears to be a simple–but costly–mistake. Eric Kiraithehe, a spokesman for the Kenyan police force had this to say: “I think there [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: March 3, 2010
The Nameitsi region of Uganda is currently recovering from a devastating mud slide that occurred Monday evening. Over a mile of earth became dislodged and fell on the town in the torrential rains that rainy season brings. Nameitsi is miles away from any roads, meaning that no modern digging equipment can be brought to the [...]
Posted by: sambo9 on: December 1, 2009
Striking again, the Somali Pirates seized an Oil Tanker on Monday. According to naval authorities the ship was loaded with about $20 million worth in gallons of oil that was headed from Saudi Arabia to the United States. European naval reports said that there were nine pirates that did the hijacking and there was a [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: October 13, 2009
Next year there is a huge event happening in South Africa. I think it’s the biggest event in the World. This tournament its set by the FIFA Play, a group of people who make all the organization. It is there decision to decided where the World Cup will take place and they decide the groups in [...]
Posted by: aosborne01 on: October 10, 2009
About 250 nautical miles off Somalia’s coast, Somalian pirates in two small skiffs mistakenly opened fire on a 360,000 ton French war ship. The French ship gave chase and captured five suspected pirates. After one skiff fled, and the French ship pursued the second one in an hour-long chase. After catching [...]
Posted by: gonzaloasis on: October 7, 2009
Idelphonse Nizeyimana The person responsible for most of the genocide that occured in Rwanda in 1994 and that caused the death of 800,000 people was finally arrested last Monday in Uganda. He had been one of the most wanted people for this massacre, as the head of the secret services of the Habyarimana regime, but nobody had been able to find him in 15 years. He [...]
Posted by: devu91 on: September 17, 2009
When you think of names from the past of people who fought for the rights and the freedom of millions of people, few in my generation mention Steve Biko. Not many people my age know who he is or what he did in his life. Lots of people know about Nelson Mandela and his fight for freedom, [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: September 11, 2009
Hundreds of elephants in Kenya have died this year from drought and poaching. Zoologists say that it is the worst drought Kenya has had in 12 years. Elephants are dying because they are not getting enough food and water for their immune system to be healthy which consequently lead to their susceptibility to all kinds [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: May 6, 2009
Out on the ocean, the French military has placed a ship to catch the pirates in the area. From a distance the ship looked to be an easy target to the pirates as they sped up to try and capture the ship. However upon getting close to the boat at a rather fast speed they [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: January 21, 2009
Die Crew einer Maschine der South African Airways ist wegen Drogenschmuggel Verdacht vorübergehend festgenommen worden. Die Zollbeamten am Flughafen in Heathrow hatten bei der Besatzung runn 50 Kilo Cannabis und 4 Kilo Kokain gefunden. London- Die Polizei in London fasste die zehn weiblichen Mitarbeiter und fünf Männger inklusive des Kapitäns und Co- Piloten, nachndem das Flugzeug [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: December 3, 2008
I read the article “Nigerian troops patrol ‘tense’ city”, you can click here, to see the article. Always when I read about things like that, I feel really bad for the people who live in those areas, because a lot of people get killed, even though they are innocent, and do not have anything to do [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: December 3, 2008
No, not these kind of pirates. Last Sunday, the luxury cruise ship M/S Nautica was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. There were six bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing riffle shots all around the ship. Luckily, the captain of M/S Nautica gunned the engine and sped away, eventually loosing the [...]
Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 25, 2008
Since pirates hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crew members on Tuesday off the coast of Somalia, major Norwegian shipping groups asked ships to sail around the tip of Africa instead of using the Suez Canal route to avoid pirates. They are saying that they will no longer watch their crew being hijacked and held [...]
