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The African Union have called on the warring parties in the nearly two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia to “recommit” to peace talks, as violence intensifies in the Tigray region. The city of Shire in northwest Tigray has been bombarded for several days in a joint offensive by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops, with civilian casualties reported […]

Egypt and India have agreed on boosting their trade and cooperation in various fields as they celebrate this year the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. The remarks were made on Saturday at a press conference between Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who is making his first visit to […]

Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin has received the “Total & Complete Endorsement” of former President Donald Trump in the race for governor of New York. Trump, in a post on his social media website Truth Social, wrote that Zeldin is “a great and brilliant lawyer” and holds strong positions on the military, veterans, crime and the […]

The chief of Defence staff of the Gambia Armed Forces at the defence headquarters in Banjul has received two Armoured Personnel Carrier vehicles (APCs) to the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Turkey The APC vehicles worth over a million dollars are the latest versions of the Armoured Personnel Carrier combat vehicles designed to […]

A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak. Bars, nightclubs, places of worship and entertainment venues will be closed in Mubende and neighbouring Kassanda, and a curfew will come into force. The move is a U-turn for Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who previously said there […]

Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador to the country as it fumed over President Biden’s remarks that it is one of the “most dangerous nations in the world.” Biden made the dig while discussing the threat of nuclear war from Russia during a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Reception speech Thursday. “What I think is maybe […]

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has been scheduled to deliver on Sunday, virtually, the annual royal speech of the works of 3rd year of 8th session of Shoura Council with regard to internal and external policies of Saudi Arabia, the Shoura Council President Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Al-Sheikh said. Dr. Al-Sheikh stated to […]

President Museveni has been awarded with the prestigious Person of the Year Award from London- Based Energy Year Publication for his “exceptional leadership in unlocking the country’s oil potential.” In an event that took place at State House, Entebbe yesterday, Friday, the award was presented by the Global Government Relations Director, Brindusa Negrea who had […]

Two rival Tunisian opposition groups staged one of the biggest days of protest so far against President Kais Saied on Saturday, denouncing his moves to consolidate political power as public anger grows over fuel and food shortages. Thousands of supporters from the Islamist Ennahda party and the Free Constitutional Party held parallel rallies in adjacent […]

Two men fatally shot 11 people at a Russian military training facility near Ukraine on Saturday, Russia’s defense ministry said. The attackers were killed by return fire, the Russian military said. They were identified only as citizens of an ex-Soviet nation. In addition to the 11 fatalities, 15 more were wounded in the slaughter at […]

Lawyers and human rights defenders have voiced their disappointment after Sudan was re-elected by the UN General Assembly on Monday to serve on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the period 2023-2025. Announcing the results, Assembly President Csaba Kõrösi said that Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Georgia, Sudan, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania, […]

The new legislation increases restrictions in a controversial 2011 law on the misuse of a computer. Museveni signed the bill on Thursday, according to a presidential spokesman’s statement. Passed by the legislature in September, the bill was brought by a lawmaker who said those who hide behind computers to hurt others should be punished, arguing […]

After admissions rules were loosened during the pandemic, many schools saw a jump in the number of Black and Latino students admitted. At Millennium Brooklyn, the difference was significant: 43% of students admitted last year were Black and Latino, compared to just 20% the year before. In New York City, where public schools are among […]

New York state Attorney General Letitia James has sent a letter to all levels of law enforcement Friday about the state’s abortion laws — some of the most robust in protecting access to abortion in the nation. James sent the letter to district attorneys, county sheriffs, local police departments and other police across the state […]

Burkina Faso names coup leader Traore as transitional president Burkina Faso’s military officials, political parties and civil society leaders officially have designated army captain Ibrahim Traore as the country’s transitional president, two weeks after he seized power in Burkina Faso’s second coup this year. About 300 delegates are meeting over two days in the capital, […]

Some government officials have questioned the latest global data on out-of-school children by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Officials of the federal and Lagos education ministries expressed the doubt at an event on Wednesday. UNESCO in September announced that Nigeria now has about 20 million out-of-school children. It noted that there […]

The Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) launched by the World Bank (WB) has said that Zimbabwe needs to sustain productivity growth rates of between eight to nine percent annually for the next seven years if the upper- middle income economy (UMIC) status enshrined under Vision 2030 is to be achieved. “Achieving such unprecedented rates for Zimbabwe […]

About 500 people have been killed and 1.4 million displaced from their homes in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade after the start of the rainy season, according to the government. Poor infrastructure and heavy rain have caused the foods to affect vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country. The floods have sparked fears that […]

Indian health officials have ordered a maker of cough syrups to halt production after they were linked to the deaths of children in The Gambia. Maiden Pharmaceuticals broke rules “across its manufacturing and testing activities,” Indian regulators found. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global alert over four of Maiden’s cough syrups linked to […]

A package of legislation the City Council has passed will set the city on track to become the first in the country to establish universal child care. “Child care is both unaffordable and inaccessible for the vast majority of New Yorkers,” Councilmember Julie Menin, who sponsored the bills, said. “As a mother of four this […]