“Two people were killed while several others were injured yesterday when a device believed to be dynamite exploded from a 16 seater bus along a major road in Rumoukoro area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.” Source: Explosion kills 2 in Port Harcourt
May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »
“Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four.” Source: Official: 1 dead from grenade attack outside nightclub in Mombasa, Kenya – The Washington Post
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »
“A bodyguard for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that he was paid $3,000 to assassinate a government security official in one of hundreds of death squad killings that authorities link to one of the nation’s highest-ranking Sunni leaders.” (Source: Bodyguard says he was paid $3K to gun down security official who was ‘annoyance’ to [...]
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »
“For some residents, Edo State, at the weekend, became a theatre of war. Some gunmen struck at a police station. There were conflicting accounts on the gunmen’s encounter with the police. While one account had it that the policemen, unable to withstand the gunmen’s firepower, took to their heels, the police said they repelled the [...]
May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »
“Guinea security forces used guns, teargas and truncheons on Thursday to scatter protesters angered by the government’s handling of upcoming parliamentary elections, witnesses said.” (Source: Guinea security forces clash with protesters – chicagotribune.com.)
May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Dangerous Places | Read More »