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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Red Cross workers have been kept away from the Mpila barracks site in the east of Brazzaville as experts carry out more checks for unexploded munitions in the deadliest accident of its kind in a decade, officials said. Army officers and experts from...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi, current chair of the African Union, left Cotonou on Wednesday for Congo with a medical team following the blasts at a munitions dump in Brazzavile which claimed nearly 200 lives. "The president is going to Congo to...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
Fears of more unexploded munitions at a Congo arms depot where a series of blasts killed nearly 200 people have delayed the search for more wounded, officials said on Wednesday. Work to make the munitions dump safe were delayed so experts could carry...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his profound sadness at the loss of life and destruction caused by the accidental explosion of an ammunition depot in the capital city of the Republic of Congo. Yesterday's explosion in Brazzaville...
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Expression of Condolences to Those Affected by Sunday's Explosions in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC March 5, 2012 ________________________________________ I was deeply saddened...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Congolese Lea Mbia (C), 36, and her pregnant daughter Roliana Masomba (2nd L), 19, who was wounded in the March 4 blasts at an arms depot, which killed more than 180 people and left 1,300 injured in Brazzaville sit in a tent set up near the city's...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
07 The fires that raged on for two days after a deadly explosion in a munitions' depot in the Republic of Congo have been brought under control, authorities say. The explosions on Sunday were so violent they flattened buildings, killing at least 180...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
March 5, 2012 Police and residents stand near the debris of the Lycee de la Revolution school near the military barracks in the Mpila district of Brazzaville on March 5, 2012. (Guy-Gervais Kitina/AFP/Getty Images) After a munitions depot exploded in...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Congolese television on Monday sought to reunite dozens of children separated from their parents in the panic that followed a series of devastating blasts at a munitions depot in the capital. Sunday's explosions killed at least 150 people, Interior...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
People try to retrieve on March 5, 2012 belonging from their homes devastated on March 4 by huge explosions at a munitions depot that left more than 150 dead and 1,000 injured in the Mpila area Brazzaville. The government said an electrical short-...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Emergency crews in the Republic of Congo are trying to prevent more fires and blasts at an arms depot, where officials say explosions on Sunday killed an estimated 200 people. Witnesses reported a series of smaller blasts and fires early Monday at...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The series of five explosions at the barracks was caused by an electrical short circuit, according to Bienvenue Okemi, spokesperson for the government. Authorities at the municipal mortuary at confirmed to Radio Okapi at about 3 pm local time on...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
A series of explosions at a weapons depot in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, killed scores of people on Sunday, according to Congolese Web sites and news agency dispatches. The Web site Les Depeches de Brazzaville spoke of 150 dead,...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Homes and buildings collapsed in the Congolese capital after an arms depot exploded Sunday, killing at least 146 people and entombing countless others in crushed structures, including inside two churches that buckled while parishioners were...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Short-circuit' caused Congo's deadly arms depot blasts The blasts could be seen from across the Congo River, in Kinshasa Huge explosions at an arms depot that killed at least 146 people in Congo's capital Brazzaville were caused by a short-circuit...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-03-05 11:16 AM More than 200 people were killed and some 1,500 people were injured after a munitions depot exploded Sunday in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville,...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 1 year ago
Republic of the Congo's riverside capital of Brazzaville killed at least 206 people and injured hundreds more as fires swept through homes, churches and businesses. Brazzaville residents reported thunderous explosions early yesterday, causing many to...
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China News
| 1 year ago
Six Chinese were killed and one was missing after Sunday's ammunition depot explosions in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, according to the Chinese embassy here on Sunday night. The victims belonged to the Beijing Construction...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Those in Brazzaville described the scene as 'apocalyptic' as twisted sheets of metal littered the streets while churches, hospitals and homes were left in ruins. Didier Boutsindi, a government official of the central African country, said untold...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Huge explosions rocked a munitions depot in the Republic of Congo's capital Brazzaville Sunday, killing at least 100 people and leaving hundreds of others injured, the government said. A European diplomat said earlier that at least 150 bodies had...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
At least five explosions were heard after fire broke out in a riverside munitions dump early on Sunday morning. The force of the blasts was felt across the Congo River in Kinshasa, capital of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 1,...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Stunned residents of Congo's capital surveyed damage caused by deadly blasts at a weapons depot on Sunday that levelled homes, destroyed military barracks and blew out windows in a neighbouring city. "I experienced the apocalypse," said Jeanette...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
A provocative new book argues that the late 19th-century 'scramble for Africa' may created the ideal conditions for the spread of HIV Could an infected chimpanzee killed by a hunter in 1900 have been first link in the chain leading to the spread of...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Officials in the Republic of the Congo said a fire at a military ammunition depot triggered a series of huge explosions that killed more than 100 people Sunday. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers searched the wreckage of the base in the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Reuters in Brazzaville The explosions damaged large numbers of homes in the densely populated Brazzaville neighbourhood of Mpila. Photograph: Guy-Gervais Kitina/AFP/Getty Images At least 200 people have been killed in an arms dump explosion in Congo-...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The explosions that you have heard don't mean there is a war or a coup d'etat...At this very moment our experts are there trying to extinguish this fire so this situation does not recur, said Defence Minister Charles Zacharie Boawo, in a...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles In Kinshasa, the BBC's Thomas Hubert said residents of east Brazzaville fled when the blasts began. Citing Defense Minister Charles Zacharie Bowao, state radio reported the explosions had been caused by a fire in the arms depot at the...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
The Russian city of Ulyanovsk is recovering from a series of explosions at an arms depot that killed two servicemen and injured dozens of people. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their home to escape the blaze. Eight people have been killed...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
At least 150 people were killed in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolose capital of Brazzaville earlier on Sunday, a European diplomat said. "We count at least 150 dead in the military hospitals and around 1,500 injured, some...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Reuters in Brazzaville and Kinshasa A still from a video taken from across the Congo river in Kinshasa shows fire raging at the arms depot in Brazzaville. Photograph: AP At least 200 people have been killed and many more injured in a series of...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
At least 150 people were killed in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolose capital of Brazzaville earlier on Sunday, a European diplomat said. "We count at least 150 dead in the military hospitals and around 1,500 injured, some...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
A series of powerful blasts shook Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, early Sunday, sparking panic in the city and also in neighboring Kinshasa across the Congo River. Diplomats and government officials say the explosions took place at...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
The explosions shook houses in Brazzaville and echoed across the Congo River to the capital of the neighbouring DRC. Defence minister Charles Zacharie Boawo appeared on national television on Sunday to urge calm in Brazzaville and in the neighbouring...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
A series of explosions in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo Republic, killed at least four people and injured nearly 60 others, a senior Congolese official said, giving the first toll from Sunday's blasts...There are four dead and nearly 60 injured,...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
A view of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, as seen from Kinshasa, capital of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo Oct. 19, 2005. Republic of Congo The Associated Press Published Sunday, Mar. 04, 2012 6:21AM EST Last updated...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
01 At least three strong explosions have struck Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, sending up a plume of smoke that could been miles away across the Congo River in neighbouring Kinshasa. The blasts, which began around 8am on Sunday,...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Republic of Congo An official and witnesses say strong explosions have rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo. Witnesses say the explosions started Sunday morning and came from the north of the West African city of Brazzaville . Witnesses say...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Witnesses said the blasts were felt several miles away in the neighbouring city of Kinshasa, across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising from Kinshasa, which lies over the river from Brazzaville.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Republic of Congo (AP) — An official and witnesses say strong explosions have rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo.
Witnesses say the explosions started Sunday morning and came from the north of the West African city of...
