Liberian President, George Weah, has pledged to deliver a violent free, credible, transparent and inclusive elections as the country prepares for its Presidential and general elections in October. President Weah made the commitment of Wednesday in Monrovia during the commemoration of the 176th Independence of the country with the theme...
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A coastguard on Wednesday reported that fire blazed on a ship off the Dutch coast with nearly 3,000 vehicles on board, killing one person and injuring several others. The fire began on Tuesday night on the 199-metre Panama-registered Fremantle Highway, which was en route from Germany to Egypt, forcing...
President Bola Tinubu has described as unacceptable the attempted coup in Niger republic on Monday morning by yet to be identified military men. In a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, Tinubu said that the leadership of ECOWAS would not tolerate any situation that incapacitates the democratically-elected government. ‘’Information filtering...
Niger presidential guards are holdinBazoum Mohamed Bazoum inside the presidential palace in the capital, which has been blocked off by military vehicles since Wednesday morning, security sources said. The movements have the semblance of four military takeovers that have hit neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso since 2020. Ministries next...
The death toll due to wildfires in Algeria has reached 34 people amid a heat wave roiling North African countries. The Interior Ministry said 24 civilians and 10 soldiers were killed due to the fires. Some 8,000 members of the civil defence were deployed to help people and put...
An earthquake of 5.5-magnitude shook the southern Turkish province of Adana on Tuesday morning, according to the Kandilli earthquake monitoring centre in Istanbul. The centre said the quake occurred at 8:44 am (0544 GMT). Its epicentre was in the district of Kozan, about 64 kilometres from the city of...
In Sudan, about 435 children have been killed and 2,025 injured since violence broke out three months ago, according to a statement issued by the UN children’s agency UNICEF on Monday. “The impact that this conflict has had on children in Sudan over the last 100 days is...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been released from hospital on Monday after heart surgery. This happened hours ahead of a key parliamentary vote on his planned judicial reforms. The 73-year-old leader has left the Sheba Clinic near Tel Aviv, a government spokesperson said. He was fitted with a...
Another ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea has been hit in a drone attack according to the regional governor. Eleven drones were shot down over Crimea, Moscow-appointed governor Sergei Aksyonov said on Telegram on Monday. However, he said there was an “impact at the ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy district’’...
Large numbers of protesters have taken to the streets of Iran following another desecration of the Koran in Sweden. Worshippers took part in the state-organised nationwide protests after Friday prayers, state media reported. On Thursday evening, the Swedish ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tehran, a sharp...
A World War II bomb found in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel District has been defused. Police announced on Twitter early on Tuesday that the area, a shopping district popular with tourists, was safe again. Two partial detonations were necessary for the defusing. “The second partial blast was successful. The bomb has...
UN on Monday paid tribute to the victims of Malaysia Arlines flight MH17 nine years after the tragic plane crash occurred in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces on July 17,...
United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on Monday expressed regrets over Russia’s decision to suspend participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Blinken, in statement, said the Russian government’s continued weaponization of food harms millions of vulnerable people around the world. Since August 2022, the Black Sea Grain...
The death toll from heavy rain in recent days in South Korea rose to 40, while nine others remained missing, relevant authorities said on Monday. A total of 40 people had been found dead in southeastern North Gyeongsang province and central Chungcheong province, according to the central disaster and...
Gunmen killed 10 people and injured another two at a busy junction in the city of Bamenda in Cameroon’s troubled northwest, the regional governor said on Monday. A witness said the attackers arrived in vehicles late on Sunday, ordered people onto the floor with accusations of failing to back...
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa has left 23.4 million people acutely food insecure and 5.1 million children acutely malnourished. It said 36.6 million people have been affected by the drought across the region, calling for “immediate and medium-to-long-term actions” to...
A war between military factions in Sudan is putting at risk the production of staple crops this year, farmers in several states say, threatening to drive the African nation deeper into hunger and poverty. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen people including farmers, experts, and aid workers who...
Russian authorities have described an incident on the Kerch Bridge in the annexed peninsula of Crimea as an act of terrorism. The incident, described earlier by the local administration as an “emergency’’ caused traffic to be halted on the heavily-used bridge. The Ukrainian secret service SBU commented on the...
Russian state television showed a clip on Sunday of Russian President Vladimir Putin mocking European politicians, whom he described as being totally dependent on the United States. “If they are told tomorrow: ‘We have decided to hang you all!’ they will ask only one question, with their eyes down...
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, says warring factions in Sudan should stop targeting aid workers and civilians. “Humanitarians cannot work under the barrel of a gun,” Griffith said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the warring factions must respect international law as the...