Day: September 17, 2022

CAIRO, At least seven people were killed and seven others injured yesterday, after a minibus collided with a heavy truck, in northern Egypt’s Behaira province, said a source from Egyptian ambulance authority. The minibus hit the truck from behind when the minibus driver changed his course from left to right in the same lane to take a U-turn. There were 14 people on the minibus when the accident occurred, said the source, who required anonymity. Ambulances were sent to the scene of the accident on the Cairo-Alexandria road and the injured people were transferred to a nearby hospital, he said.

UNITED NATIONS, The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia. Some 150 world leaders will descend on New York for a week of diplomacy, with all required to come in person to speak save one — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, granted an exception as he leads the fight against Russian invaders. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking ahead of the summit that formally begins Tuesday, said that the world’s divisions “are the widest they have

MATADI (DRCongo), At least seven people were killed and 16 others badly burned when a tanker truck exploded in a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial chief said.  The blast occurred overnight Thursday in the village of Mbuba, about 120 kilometres west of the capital Kinshasa, Kongo Central provincial governor Guy Bandu tweeted.  Mbuba lies on the busy RN1 highway linking Kinshasa to the ports of Matadi and Boma.  More than 50 people were killed in a fuel-tanker blast in the same village in October 2018.  “It is high time to take bold and drastic measures to