Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Thursday to join her counterpart, Fatima Jannie-Bio, to mark this year’s UN Day Against Rape and Girl-Child Exploitation. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that she was received on arrival by Mrs Jannie-Bio, with the duo...
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At least 25 people died in a fire on Thursday in the building of a coal mining company in the northwest Chinese province of Shanxi, Chinese news agency, Xinhua reports. More than 60 people were evacuated during the rescue efforts, which were still underway. The exact cause of...
U.S. President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator’’ after their just concluded meeting in South of San Francisco on Wednesday. Biden made the pronouncement just days after making comments that he would like to improve communication channels with a direct line. “He’s a dictator...
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Rwanda asylum policy is unlawful, in a major blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s promise to “stop the boats”. Five justices at the UK’s highest court unanimously rejected the government’s appeal over its policy of removing asylum seekers to the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in San Francisco, U.S., to attend a Summit with President Joe Biden. The Summit is also the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting that started on November 14 and will end on November 17. In a statement on Wednesday, Chinese...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his call to stop the killing of women and children in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu again appealed for support for his country’s fight against the Islamist group Hamas. “It is not Israel that is...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday led a minute of silence at UN Headquarters in New York in honour of 101 staff killed so far during in Gaza conflict. According to UN, the number is the largest killed during a conflict in the 78-year history of the organisation....
Former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, would be the country’s new foreign minister, the office of prime minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday. Cameron is also to be appointed to the British House of Lords, parliament’s upper chamber. His return to government is a big surprise. Cameron was...
lags at United Nations (UN) offices around the world are flying at half-mast in memory of the 101 UN staff members killed so far in the Gaza war. Staff held a minute’s silence to mourn and honour colleagues from UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday fired Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who drew anger for accusing police of being too lenient with pro-Palestinian protesters. According to a source in the prime minister’s office, Sunak had “asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted.” The Conservative...
Ahead of the November 14, 2023 Run-off Election between the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and the main opposition Unity Party (UP), UP political leader Amb. Joseph Nyuma Boakai has declared that Liberians are going to be in more trouble if they retain President George Weah in the...
National Disaster Management Agency on Wednesday said the worst flooding to hit Somalia in decades has killed 29 people and forced more than 300,000 to flee their homes. Authorities have scrambled to rescue thousands of stranded people from the floodwater, which came on the heels of the region’s...
Israeli military said on Wednesday it has killed one of the leading weapons developers from the Islamist Hamas group in an airstrike on Gaza. Muhsin Abu Sina was reportedly an expert in the development of rockets for the extremist group. In spite the aerial bombardment of Gaza and...
King Charles III on Tuesday traveled in a horse-drawn carriage to open a new session of the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament. The parliament session is expected to be the final one ahead of the general election, which must be held by January 2025. In a typically British tradition...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Monday joined the UN family in mourning 89 staff from its agency that assisted Palestine refugees (UNRWA), who were killed in Gaza. Guterres told journalists at UN Headquarters in New York that the Gaza crisis was more than humanitarian crisis: “The nightmare in...
Israel’s army has said that it is giving civilians in northern Gaza another window to flee to the southern region of the coastal strip. The army would open a four-hour window on a specific road to the south, a spokesman wrote on Monday on platform X, formerly Twitter,...
Israel’s military said on Monday Israeli fighter jets struck 450 Hamas targets in Gaza and troops seized a militant compound in the past 24 hours in attacks that killed dozens of people. A Reuters journalist in the Gaza Strip described the overnight bombardment from the air, ground,...
Israel pressed its war to crush Hamas on Sunday nearly a month after the worst attack in the country’s history, as the Palestinian group said strikes on a central Gaza refugee camp killed dozens. Fighting continues to rage in densely populated Gaza, despite calls for a...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip as horrific, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire. The ambulances evacuating critically injured and sick patients to Al Shifa Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip were...
Israel’s Army says its troops have killed “dozens of terrorists” as its ground operation in the Gaza Strip continued overnight. “Over the past day, there were numerous attempted attacks on IDF troops from tunnel shafts and military compounds in the northern Gaza Strip,” the IDF said on Saturday...