Oil blaze threaens Libyan environmental disaster
A huge blaze engulfing Libya’s biggest fuel storage facility in the capital, Tripoli, is spreading out of control. Libya’s National Oil Company appealing for international assistance to try to contain the blaze. Libya’s government’s blaming clashes between rival militias for starting the fire that’s spread to a second tank at the oil depot. Authorities say […]
Ebola stops football in Liberia
Desperate to control the spread of the worst EBOLA outbreak in history, Liberia has suspended all soccer matches and practices. The country’s football association accepts there’s a risk of infection in their contact sport. The West African EBOLA outbreak now claimed 672 lives – 249 of these in Liberia. A Liberian man carried the deadly […]