Gunmen in Nigeria release schoolchildren abducted three months ago
www.cnn.com Scores of schoolchildren who were abducted at gunpoint at a school in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State have been freed and handed over to their families, a government spokesperson told CNN Friday.… Read More
Pfizer-BioNTech to start producing Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa in 2022
www.cnn.com Pfizer and BioNTech will start to manufacture their Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa, they announced jointly on Wednesday, in a move that could significantly increase the availability of doses across the continent next year.… Read More
Looting and killings in South Africa as ex-leader Zuma faces court hearing
www.cnn.com South Africa’s top court began hearing a challenge by former president Jacob Zuma against a 15-month prison term on Monday as police said six people had been killed and more than 200 arrested in related protests and looting since last week.… Read More
Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed wins election in landslide amid Tigray conflict and voting fraud concerns
www.cnn.com Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) overwhelmingly won general elections Saturday, meaning he will stay in power another term, according to CNN affiliate Nation Media Group.… Read More
Southern Africa hoped it was through the worst of Covid-19. Then the Delta variant arrived
www.cnn.com Patients are crammed into every corner of the hospital’s emergency room ward. They lie on beds and gurneys, or sit slumped in wheelchairs. Many suck on oxygen, but nobody talks. Some die while waiting for a bed.… Read More
Former South African President Jacob Zuma likens his treatment by courts to apartheid-era South Africa
www.cnn.com After succeeding in a last-ditch legal effort to delay his arrest for contempt of court, former South African President Jacob Zuma likened his treatment to Apartheid-era detention without trial.… Read More
The pageant queen and the bloodied flag, how a Nigerian model used a Russian catwalk to protest police brutality
www.cnn.com As Victoria Chiamaka Udeh strutted confidently down the runway during a beauty pageant in Russia, brandishing her country’s red-stained flag, she thought only of one thing — the young people who lost their lives during the #EndSars protests in Nigeria last year.… Read More
When children became targets of Russian mercenaries
When children became targets of Russian mercenaries… Read More
About Me
Hello ! I am Richard Y. Lim
Upon migration to Medina, the direction of the Qibla continued to be Jerusalem, although it was then physically impossible for one to also face the Ka’ba, as Medina is north of Makkah.
