One dead and at least 71 injured after severe turbulence hits Singapore Airlines flight. | # severe turbulence hits Singapore Airlines flight

Transport and Roads

One dead and at least 71 injured after severe turbulence hits Singapore Airlines flight.

One passenger died and 71 people were injured when their Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore encountered severe turbulence Tuesday, throwing passengers and crew around the cabin and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Bangkok.

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Nigeria will have no need to import petrol from next month - Dangote. | #no need to import petrol in nigeria

Economics and Trade

Nigeria will have no need to import petrol from next month - Dangote.

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man and Chairman of the Dangote Group, has assured that with the implementation of the Dangote Refinery's plans, Nigeria will no longer need to import gasoline starting next month.

BRICS Pays $4,000,000,000 in Local Currency, Sidelines US Dollar. | #brics Pays $4 #000 #000

Economics and Trade

BRICS Pays $4,000,000,000 in Local Currency, Sidelines US Dollar.

Russia purchased arms manufactured by its BRICS counterpart India by paying $4 billion in local currencies and not the US dollar. The Indian-made arms and equipment were procured by Russia citing ‘defense purposes’. The entire payment of $4 billion was cleared using the Rupee and the U

Free movement for East Africans, finally? | #east Africa free movement

People and Nations

Free movement for East Africans, finally?

COVER STORY | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda has finally signed the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) protocol that allows lawful free movement in and out of citizens of the countries of the East and Horn of Africa region.

Inside the life and career of Larry Page, Google's co-founder and first CEO | #life and career of Larry Page

Lifestyle

Inside the life and career of Larry Page, Google's co-founder and first CEO

Larry Page cofounded Google with his Stanford graduate school classmate Sergey Brin.

Google declares the end of the World Wide Web. | #end of the World Wide Web.

Science and Technology

Google declares the end of the World Wide Web.

No company is quite so inseparable from the World Wide Web as Google, which made searching the internet an eponymous verb. The web made Google rich, too, but this week Google relegated it to a submenu. In a design of its next-generation home page that the company showed at its annual I/O d

List of African Countries With Highest Quality of Roads. | #countries With Highest Quality of Roads

Transport and Roads

List of African Countries With Highest Quality of Roads.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessment of mean speed and road quality showed the African countries with the best road infrastructure.