The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the Republic of Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone have launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations. WHO said this in a statement as the world celebrates the 17th World...
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Scientists on Thursday warned that by the end of the century more than half of the world’s population were at risk of catching diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria and dengue. Experts said mosquito-borne outbreaks, driven by global warming, were set to spread to parts of northern...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has allocated 25 million dollars in 2024 to fight terrorism in Nigeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. ECOWAS Commissioner, Human Development and Social Affairs, Prof. Fatou Sarr, disclosed this during a news conference at the commission’s headquarters, on Friday...
The World Bank Group (WBG) and African Development Bank(AfDB) Group are partnering to provide no fewer than 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by 2030. This is contained in a statement issued by the World Bank Online Media Centre , a copy made available to the...
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics might not take place along the Seine River if the security situation in Europe worsens. French President Emmanuel Macron told broadcasters BFMTV in an interview on Monday. “We can do it and we will do it,” Macron stressed, but he...
When former President Macky Sall shook hands and handed the mantle of leadership to his successor President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal’s 5th, and youngest, on the 2nd of April 2024, he might have wondered what could have been, the “what ifs” and “if onlys.” After serving as Prime Minister and...
Turkish, Jordanian, and Iraqi officials said on Sunday that Iran gave wide notice days before its drone and missile attack on Israel, but U.S. officials said Tehran did not warn Washington and that it was aiming to cause significant damage. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles on...
Donald Trump would become the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial on criminal charges when jury selection begins on Monday in New York. The trial of the case that stemmed from payments made to an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election. Trump, who...
A Moroccan has been accused of knifing a pensioner to death in a UK street apparently in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict was turned down for asylum in Germany, his housemate told investigators. Ahmed Alid, 45, attacked sleeping Christian convert Javed Nouri at their shared accommodation in Wharton...
Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta’s order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to what one opposition politician called the “dictatorial” move. The West African country has been under military rule since a coup in...
Russia has sent an air defence system and 100 military trainers to Niger Republic in West Africa. Military personnel from the Russian Ministry of Defence are to install the system and train Niger’s soldiers in its use, the Nigerien state broadcaster RTN reported late on Thursday. This was...
Pope Francis has denounced abortions and the carrying of children by surrogate mothers as grave offences against human dignity. In a declaration of principles published by the Vatican on Monday, the head of the Catholic Church also described gender reassignment and “gender theory’’. Pope said gender theory is...
A German Magistrate has issued a detention order for a man suspected of stabbing a 4-year-old girl in a supermarket, police and the public prosecutor said on Friday. The 34-year old was ordered to be taken to a psychiatric hospital for attempted murder combined with dangerous bodily harm....
CHIBUIKE ALAGBOSO (Lead Writer) – If there were any doubts of what may happen when countries don’t take prioritise epidemic preparedness, the covid-19 pandemic is still a fresh reminder. Its economic cost is estimated to be as high as $114 trillion. However, it is not just about money. Other long-term...
Newly elected Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has formally appointed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko as the country’s new prime minister. Faye, 44, made the announcement early on Wednesday, appointing his close ally who enjoys support among young Senegalese. Faye had taken the oath of office just hours previously....
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday accepted a petition by the country’s Election Commission (EC) to disband the main opposition Move Forward Party over its efforts to amend the royal defamation law. The EC provided sufficient evidence to believe that the Move Forward Party had violated the law. The...
African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Mahamat has congratulated Bassirou Faye on his victory at Senegal’s presidential election. In a statement issued on Friday, Mahamat said he warmly congratulates Faye on the occasion of the official proclamation of his election in the first round as the next president...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it requires about 5.2 billion dollars to address infrastructure deficit and achieve its core objectives of driving the subregion’s economic growth. The ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization, Mr Sediko Douka, made this known while addressing a news...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his election as the President of the Republic of Senegal. President Tinubu in a statement by his spokesman, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, noted that President-elect Faye comes with great promise and a sterling...
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Tuesday granted the investigator’s petition and arrested in absentia Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on terrorism charges, the court told Sputnik. “The court has granted the investigator’s application for the introduction of a preventive measure in the...