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...
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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...
Nigeria and 186 Member States of the United Nations on Thursday voted by a large margin against the United States’ economic and trade embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1960. A total of 187 States voted for the resolution put forward each year against the embargo with only...
Over three weeks after the start of the Gaza war, Pope Francis has called on Israel and the Palestinians to find a solution at the negotiating table. “Every war is a defeat. Nothing is solved by war. Everything is gained with peace, with dialogue,” the head of the...
Survivors of colonial-era abuses on Wednesday criticised Britain’s King Charles over failure to issue a full apology or propose reparations on his second day visit to Kenya. At a state dinner on Tuesday Charles expressed his “deepest regret” for what he called abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence...
Israel’s plan to destroy the Palestinian movement Hamas is 10% complete, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Israeli official. “Perhaps we’ve covered about 10% of the distance required to achieve the goal of toppling Hamas,” the official was quoted as saying by the newspaper....
At least 12 people died and three others were critically ill after drinking home-made liquor in Indonesia’s West Java province over the weekend, police said Tuesday. The police on Monday arrested a married couple who allegedly produced and sold the liquor, known locally as oplosan, to residents in...
Israeli forces have killed dozens of Hamas militants during their advance in the north of the Gaza Strip, the country’s military said on Monday. This took place as ground operations expand in the Palestinian territory. “During clashes with terrorists in the Gaza Strip, IDF (Israel Defence Forces) troops...
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday for his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for his arrest in March. During his two-day trip to the Central Asian nation, an ex-Soviet Republic with strong ties to Moscow, Putin is set...
The Israeli military has continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response to coordinated attacks by the Islamist group Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Telegram on Thursday that a large-scale attack was currently underway against Hamas-affiliated targets in the Gaza Strip. Israel was stunned...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing an eyewitness. Earlier this week, the Haaretz newspaper reported that the official was expected to pay a visit amid the ongoing escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Upon his arrival, Blinken was greeted by...
Israeli airstrikes against Hamas militants have displaced 264,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN’s humanitarian relief agency said. They are sheltering in school buildings, with relatives or neighbours, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Hamas, the militant group that rules Gaza, launched...