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Ten members of a single family were killed overnight in a village in the capital of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province due to heavy rainfall and flooding, local officials said on Sunday. Rescue teams are searching for the remaining victims after four bodies were recovered, the head of the information and culture department Zabihullah Amiri said in a statement. There are no reports of survivors from the family. Flooding has deepened Afghanistan’s already dire humanitarian crisis, adding to the death toll caused by multiple natural disasters in recent years. The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement that floods in the…

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The Nigerian automotive industry is gearing up for a significant transformation with focus on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Electric Vehicles (EVs). The Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Joseph Osanipin, said in Abuja that Nigeria’s abundant natural resources were key to this transformation. “On EVs, Nigeria has a very good advantage if we pursue EVs as well as CNG parts. “The advantage in CNG is because we have natural gas in abundance, it naturally makes it cheaper for us to go that route. “Again, we have the technical know-how and the component parts,” he said.…

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