Uber has stopped its operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect – citing "a thorough review of our business" as its reason for shutting down in the former.
Sky News – World Nigeria - Africa's most populous country - is proving a tough market for ride-hailing services.
Sky News – World 
BBC News – World Nigeria - Africa's most populous country - is proving a tough market for ride-hailing services.
NYTimes – World Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic chokepoint for Red Sea shipping and oil exports. Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack. The Houthis also reportedly took over Yemen's port of Mokha, about 50 miles from the strait, consolidating control along the key maritime route.
Sky News – Front Page Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested Jacques Ratliff in connection with the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house in August. Authorities have ruled her death a homicide.
Sky News – World The deadly fire had begun in the ferry’s cargo hold, then tore through the ship within seconds The bodies of passengers killed in a ferry fire off the Philippines arrived at a port near the resort town of Coron, Palawan, on Saturday morning, as the country’s coast guard warned the death toll of 35 would grow. Tents were being set up to receive 30 bodies brought from the M/V June Aster, which ran aground near the tou…
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