First French Ebola victim to be flown home from Liberia
PARIS: The first French Ebola patient was set to be flown home on Thursday, as the World Bank warned the spiralling epidemic is threatening economic catastrophe in west Africa. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said a female volunteer had contracted the killer virus while on... read more »
Libya’s Zawiya refinery, El Sharara oil field shut: Report
TRIPOLI: Libya’s 120,000 barrels-a-day Zawiya refinery has been shut down due to damaged storage, an oil ministry official said on Thursday. The El Sharara field feeding the refinery also remained closed said Ibrahim al-Awami, head of the inspection and measurement department at the oil... read more »
Nigeria’s $9.3M Scandal: Arms Meant For Armed Forces, Niger Delta Militants...
$1m is conservatively N163m. so, $9.3m is N1,514,502,583.61 at today’s exchange rate of $1 : N163. It means almost N2 billion cash found its way out of Nigeria in two private jets. And the jets took off from Abuja. Reports are suggesting one of the jets belong to Christian Association of Nigeria... read more »
Barack Obama and US Lawmakers Turn Up Heat on Islamic State
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama and US lawmakers ratcheted up the pressure on the Islamic State on Wednesday, with the president declaring there was no hiding place for jihadists and warning: “Our reach is long.” After Mr Obama spoke at MacDill Air Force Base, the House of Representatives... read more »
