The United States Army identified on Saturday the names of five soldiers who died while supporting a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai region of Egypt this week. The soldiers died when a UH-60 helicopter crashed on Thursday. They are: Capt. Seth Vernon Vandekamp, 31, from Katy, Texas. Chief Warrant Officer…
President Felix Tshisekedi visited families of some of the victims of last week’s plane crash in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, after authorities confirmed Tuesday that they found the wreckage of the missing Antonov AN-72 in Sankuru province. Abraham Luakabuanga, a spokesman for the presidency, said the plane was found…
The confusion over the crash of a military aircraft chartered to the presidency in Democratic Republic of Congo continued on Sunday, with some reports that the plane – carrying at least eight people – was found in an eastern province different from the one reported on Friday. Congolese radio station…
In Democratic Republic of Congo, the search will continue Saturday for the passengers and crew of a military aircraft that disappeared on Thursday as it returned to Kinshasa from the eastern city of Goma. The flight – carrying close advisors of President Felix Tshisekedi and his team – took off…
Roy Bennett, a controversial opposition politician in Zimbabwe praised by human rights and democracy activists at home and abroad, has died in a helicopter crash while in the United States. The 60-year-old Bennett and his wife, Heather, were among five people who died when the helicopter went down Wednesday evening…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has asked member nations to cooperate with Tanzanian Mohamed Othman as he continues a comprehensive investigation into the death of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld – a case that is now more than a half-century old. Othman, the former chief justice of Tanzania, leads an inquiry…