US: Three killed, one critically wounded in Las Vegas University shooting
Three people were killed and another critically injured in a shooting at a Las Vegas university on Wednesday, police said, with the suspect also dead. The incident at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a short distance from the gambling hub’s tourist-packed Las Vegas Strip, was the latest in the United States, where gun violence […]
Yaoundé: Gabon’s New Military Strongman meets Biya
Gabon’s military leader, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, visited Cameroon on Wednesday, asking central African states to lift economic sanctions on his country before the 2025 elections. When Nguema ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a bloodless coup on August 30, economic sanctions were imposed on the country by CEMAC, the six-nation Central Africa Economic […]
Diaspora journalists increasingly targeted by home countries
Authoritarian states are increasingly targeting journalists working in exile as part of government reprisal campaigns against dissidents living outside their countries, US-based rights group Freedom House said in a new report Wednesday. The uptick in so-called “transnational repression,” which can target all kinds of citizens living abroad, comes just a week after an Indian national […]
