Contained Abuja Secretariat Fire Highlights Safety Gaps in Nigeria’s Public Buildings.

Rita Eze14 March 2026

A fire outbreak occurred on Monday, March 9, 2026, at the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) within the Federal Secretariat Complex, Phase II, Abuja. The blaze affected a section of the building on the fourth floor of Block C, which houses the National Board for Technology Incubation. Emergency...

Death toll from Kenyan floods rises to 62, police say

Reuters14 March 2026

March 14 (Reuters) – A total of 62 people including eight children have died since heavy rains and flooding hit Kenya’s capital Nairobi and other areas late last week, police said on Saturday. The capital was the worst hit with 33 deaths, the force said in a statement on X that updated the official tally...

UAE’s Fujairah stops some oil loading operations after drone attack

Reuters14 March 2026

DUBAI, March 14 (Reuters) – Some oil-loading operations have been suspended in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate, a major bunkering hub and crude export terminal, after a drone attack and fire on Saturday, industry and trade sources said. The suspension comes hours after the U.S. attacked military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island oil export...

Venezuela’s students reclaim the streets after years of oppression

Reuters14 March 2026

March 14 (Reuters) – In mid-February, hundreds of students from Venezuela’s most prestigious university did the once unthinkable: their protest left the campus of the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas and spilled out into a nearby street. Before the U.S. military operation that captured Nicolas Maduro on January 3, student activism was a risky...

Iran signals defiance as Trump threatens to hit Kharg Island oil network

Reuters14 March 2026

WASHINGTON/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, March 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to strike the oil infrastructure of Iran’s Kharg Island hub unless Tehran stopped attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a warning that could further roil markets coping with a historic supply disruption. Trump paired his Friday ultimatum with a social media post saying the...

Iran war puts many in US on high alert, but synagogue attack shows limits

Reuters14 March 2026

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials are on heightened alert as the Iran war enters its third week, but the limits of their vigilance were on display as seeming lone-wolf attacks unfolded more than 500 miles apart in Virginia and Michigan on Thursday alone. In Michigan, where a Lebanon-born gunman rammed a...

Ivory Coast welcomes ‘talking drum’, first artifact sent back from France

Reuters13 March 2026

ABIDJAN, March 13 (Reuters) – Traditional chiefs wearing crowns and gold chains gathered at Ivory Coast’s main airport on Friday to welcome the return of a “talking drum” looted more than a century ago, the first artifact returned to the West African country by former colonial power France. The drum – known as “Djidji Ayokwè”,...

Rainstorm Destroys Over 40 Houses in Kogi

Habibu Idris Gimba13 March 2026

Several residents of the Egbeda-Egga community in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, one of the North Central states, have been rendered homeless after a rainstorm reportedly destroyed more than 40 residential buildings. Reports from the community on Thursday indicated that the unexpected rainfall on Wednesday was accompanied by a violent storm that destroyed...

Cuba opens talks with U.S. as oil blockade takes a toll

Reuters13 March 2026

HAVANA, March 13 (Reuters) – Cuba has opened talks with the U.S. government, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Friday, as an oil blockade imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump pushes the Communist-run nation deeper into economic crisis. “These talks have been aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences we have between the...

Brazil’s jailed ex-president Bolsonaro hospitalized in ICU with pneumonia

Reuters13 March 2026

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in an intensive care unit on Friday after being diagnosed with bronchopneumonia, according to a medical note from the DF Star hospital. Bolsonaro, 70, was taken from prison to the hospital in Brasilia early on Friday with a high fever, chills and a drop...

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