A long-haul Air Madagascar flight carrying about 200 people had to make an emergency landing after its right engine failed moments after taking off, the airline said on Monday. No one was hurt in the incident involving a Boeing 767-300 jet that was bound from the capital, Antananarivo, to Paris late on Saturday night.
Algeria’s security forces continue to detain and torture prisoners secretly, Amnesty International said on Monday in a report ahead of the Algerian president’s trip to London. It said Algeria’s intelligence agency, the Department of Information and Security, is using the war on terror as an excuse to perpetuate torture and ill-treatment.
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation slowed down by a marginal 8,9 percentage points to 1 184,6% in June, the government’s Central Statistical Office said on Monday. Inflation was pegged at 1 193,5% in May and remains the highest such rate in the world.
Investigators worked on Monday to determine what caused an Airbus plane to overrun the runway and crash in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, as Russia marked a day of mourning for about 130 people killed in the accident. Transport Minister Igor Levitin chaired a meeting of a commission set up to investigate the cause of the accident and told reporters here afterwards that so far 122 bodies had been recovered and six were still unaccounted for.
A plane carrying the chief of staff of the Russian navy and other officers caught fire after crash-landing at Simferopol airfield in Crimea, Ukraine, Interfax news agency said on Monday. It was the fourth serious aviation incident involving Russian passenger planes in 36 hours, one of which killed more than 130 people.
A Malaysian on Monday appealed for help after authorities ruled him dead more than four years ago, saying he was unable to work because of the mistake. According to records, Minggu Mang anak Madang died from head injuries in the town of Bintulu in the eastern state of Sarawak on January 18 2002, and was buried.
Heavy fighting resumed on Monday in Mogadishu as Islamic militia attacked to dislodge gunmen loyal to warlord Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid, who repositioned his fighters after fleeing deadly weekend clashes, witnesses said. Rival sides pounded each other with heavy rounds of artillery, mortars and rockets in the south of the Somali capital.
United States-led coalition troops and Afghan security forces destroyed an ”extremist safe haven” and killed more than 40 militants on Monday in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said. An Afghan soldier was also killed and three coalition troops wounded in the operation in troubled Uruzgan province, it said in a statement.
The Zimbabwean student accused of trying to hijack a domestic Johannesburg-bound aircraft last month has alleged he was not informed of his rights, the Bellville Magistrate’s court heard on Monday. However, the investigating officer, Superintendent Lungisile Manyana, denied this under cross-examination.
South Africa’s biggest retail banking group, Absa, will pay GijimaAst R960-million over five years for technology services, Absa said on Monday. Absa is a subsidiary of Britain’s Barclays. GijimaAst is 37% held by blacks and is a leading information and communication technology services firm.