LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Lagos taxi driver Adegbola Isaac went to the gas station twice last weekend. Each time, the price in the Nigerian city had climbed further and hit 1,350 naira ($0.99) per liter, a nearly 35% increase since the Iran war started. That’s wiped out most of his daily profit.
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks fell again as oil prices keep climbing because of uncertainty about when the war with Iran could end. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Monday and deepened its losses to pull 9.1% below its record set early this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.7%. Caution was prevalent throughout markets.
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) – The Republic of Congo’s constitutional court on Saturday confirmed President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso’s victory in the recent election, granting the 82-year-old leader a fifth term with 94.90% of the vote.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – At least 30 people were dead and dozens more missing on Monday after a gang renewed its attack on a town in central Haiti, according to human rights activists. Gran Grif attacked Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite early Sunday, burning homes and leaving bodies strewn on the streets.
GENEVA (AP) – A boat packed with migrants capsized off the coast of Djibouti on the way to Yemen this week, the U.N. migration agency said Friday. At least nine people died and another 45 are missing after the shipwreck.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Israel’s parliament on Monday passed its annual budget, ensuring that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government can complete its term until the fall. Israel needed to pass a budget before April 1 in order to avoid triggering early elections. Netanyahu still reserves the right to call early elections before then if he wants.
DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) – The sound of a crying child is a sign of hope in a crowded displacement camp in southern Somalia – the most malnourished children are too weak to even cry. For the mothers in the Ladan camp in the town of Dollow, survival is the only thing on their minds – not the Iran war or how UNICEF gets the supplies to keep the place running.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) – Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 20 people in southern Tanzania in recent days, authorities said, as the death toll from across the wider East African region continues to rise.
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