Author: Kerkula Blama

It has been revealed that the Florida doctor who was arrested over the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise campaigned to replace the slain leader with the backing of a key UN figure. Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian who has lived in the US since the late 70s, has been named as mastermind of Moise\’s assassination. He is suspected of being \’one of the leaders\’ behind the shooting and the attempted killing of the president wife Martine last week. Haitian police say he entered the country last month on a private jet \’with the intention of taking the Haitian Presidency\’…

Bill Gates blamed himself for \”messing up\” as he opened up about his messy divorce. The billionaire spoke last week at the exclusive Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, widely known as \”summer camp for billionaires\”, in Sun Valley, Idaho. One attendee at the camp said the Microsoft founder was \”emotional\” and on the verge of tears as he spoke about his divorce. During an \”off the record\” Q&A session that followed Gates’ talk on climate change, CNBC host Becky Quick asked the billionaire about his divorce from Melinda, his wife of 27 years, and the future of the Gates Foundation. \”He fessed…

The Jamaican government has revealed they want £7 Billion compensation from the United Kingdom for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony. The Caribbean island nation will file a petition that could seek billions of pounds in reparations, pending legal advice, Olivia Grange, Jamaica\’s minister of sports, youth and culture, said. \’We are hoping for reparatory justice in all forms that one would expect if they are to really ensure that we get justice from injustices to repair the damages that our ancestors experienced,\’ Grange told Reuters news agency in an interview at the weekend. \’Our African ancestors…

Six men have been arrested at Agogo in Ashanti Region of Ghana, for inserting a thick long stick into the anus of a 16-year-old boy suspected to be a thief. The suspects identified as 24-year-old Kwasi Marfo, 65-year-old Boakye Danquah, 53-year-old Osei Bonsu, 26-year-old Kofi Asiedu, 30-year-old Obeng Mensah and a 79-year-old man were caught on camera carrying out the act. The video was captured by those who claimed to have caught the boy stealing in their neighborhood. The 79-year-old man in the video who was the first person to be arrested by the police following a missing person complaint filed…

Videos have emerged showing the Taliban militant group killing Afghanistan special forces. The killings allegedly happened on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad by the Taliban in Faryab province, close to Afghanistan\’s border with Turkmenistan. Across Afghanistan, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced amid a surge in fighting that followed US President Joe Biden\’s announcement that all US troops will be withdrawn from the country by September 11. Since then, the Talibans claim to have taken control of nearly 200 districts across Afghanistan — mostly in the north and north-west. In many areas, they have met little…

At least 41 people have been killed in a hospital fire in the southeastern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, with at least 5 people critically injured. According to Dr. Ammar al-Zamili, the spokesperson for the local health department, the fire on Monday night, July 12, is believed to have started after oxygen tanks exploded in an ICU treating Covid-19 patients, al-Zamili said. \”The civil defense teams managed to control and put out the major fire that broke out at al-Hussein hospital in the city with the help of health workers and neighborhood volunteers,\” al-Zamili told CNN. Health officials could not say…

Londre Sylvester, a Chicago rapper who goes by the name “KTS Dre,” was killed by a barrage of bullets just moments after he walked out of jail. According to police, Sylvester was shot at least 64 times outside the Cook County Jail in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported. Sylvester had been fitted with an ankle monitor and was released after being jailed for violating the conditions of his release on a 2020 gun charge, the Tribune said. He posted $5,000 bail Friday, the newspaper said. He was walking with a 60-year-old woman to a waiting vehicle, when multiple suspects suddenly emerged…

Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has offered to refund all the allowances she has received since the president assumed office in 2017. She also said that she would not accept a salary that was recently approved by the country’s parliament. She added that she did not request to be paid and had only received that which existed and attached to her status, albeit informally. Her decision came following a public outcry over salaries. Last week, Ghanaians expressed outrage at the decision by MPs to approve salaries for the wives of the president and vice-president for the supportive role they play. They…

A lightning strike killed at least 11 people in India as they were taking selfies in a storm. The victims were on top of a watchtower in northern India when they were struck by lightning. Some people reportedly jumped to the ground in fright at the 12th Century Amer Fort in Jaipur. Rescuers search for survivors near the watch towers of the Amer Fort Shocking footage taken from a nearby building shows the huge bolt as it struck the tourist attraction, where crowds of people had gathered to take pictures. Senior police officer Anand Srivastava said most of the people…

Entertainment mogul and entrepreneur, Lyee K. Bility has taken timeout to stress out his frustration about how Liberian youths go agaisnt each other on a daily basis for no just cause. According to Lyee, the young people in Liberia need to be more concern about exerting efforts to rendering support for each other whether it is through our social actions, services or by volunteering. He believes that if efforts are exerted more in these areas, it’s most likely that Liberia as a country will begin to see increase in our human resource capacity, broaden prospects of major positive strides that’ll…