The helicopter pilot was worried. Any more than 20 minutes in this shattered frontline village and Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants could start lobbing mortars at their position.Roughly 1,000 Somali National Army (SNA) forces are holding Awdheegle, a strategic town roughly 35 miles (60 kilometres) outside the capital Mogadishu, with the help of an African Union contingent after it was retaken less than seven weeks ago from the Al-Qaeda-linked militants.But their hold is shaky and the helicopter one of the few in the SNA fleet and showing its age is a tempting target for the insurgents just a few miles away.
From the scrappy metal shacks packed tightly on the banks of the thin Jukskei river, the sparkly skyline of Johannesburg's richest neighbourhood less than two miles away is another world.Bags of refuse for sale to recycling companies line a muddy path to a vegetable garden tended by residents of the informal settlement at the foot of the high-rises of Sandton, South Africa's economic hub.A light powered by a makeshift electrical connection shone at the doorway of the rusted shack where Bryan lives with his wife and nine-year-old son.
हङकङ- हङकङको ताइ पोस्थित वाङ फुक कोर्टमा भएको भीषण आगलागीबाट मृत्यु संख्या १२८ पुगेको छ। शुक्रबार दिउँसोसम्म घटनासम्बन्धी अनुसन्धानका क्रममा दुईजना परामर्शदाता निर्देशक पक्राउ परेका छन् । यस प्रकरणमा पक्राउ परेकाको संख्या पनि पाँच पुगेको छ। स्वतन्त्र भ्रष्टाचार निरीक्षण आयोग (आईसीएसी) ले शुक्रबार विल पावर आर्किटेक्ट्स कम्पनीका दुई निर्देशकलाई पक्राउ गरेको हो। यो कम्पनी वाङ […]