World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General (D-G), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, plans to visit the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday. The visit will be in the wake of this week’s earthquakes, according to his cabinet chief in Geneva. Aleppo, in the northwest of the country, is controlled by the government...
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Cameroon Health Ministry on Friday said the country has restricted movement along its border with Equatorial Guinea following “several unexplained deaths” from hemorrhagic fever. In a statement, the ministry said the restrictions were imposed in “view of the high risk of importation of this disease and in order to...
The United States on Thursday announced an initial $85 million aid package to help Turkey and Syria recover from the devastating earthquake, while also granting a temporary relief of some Damascus-related sanctions. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck early Monday near the Turkish-Syrian border, and by Friday morning the death toll...
Users in Turkey were again able to access Twitter after reported restrictions within the country following devastating earthquakes earlier in the week. Twitter was accessible without remote access services, or VPNs, on Thursday morning. The organisation Netblocks, which monitors internet restrictions, had reported the block earlier on Wednesday citing...
German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Wednesday assured Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Europe’s ongoing support in the war against Russia. Germany would continue to provide military aid to Ukraine “as long as it needs,” Scholz told Zelensky at a meeting alongside French President, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on Wednesday...
Several manufacturers, companies, and top figures have been targeted by Britain in the latest round of sanctions to hit Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Britain, meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and addressing parliament. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that...
A woman was pulled out alive after being trapped in the rubble of a building that collapsed 52 hours earlier due to a devastating earthquake in southeast Turkey. Pictures from broadcaster NTV on Wednesday showed emergency services in the province of Kahramanmaraş, near the border with Syria, carrying the...
The U.S. would act to protect itself should China threaten its sovereignty, U.S. President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Biden said he was committed to working with China where it could advance U.S. interests and benefit the world. “But make no mistake...
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths on Tuesday said nearly eight million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict almost a year ago. According to Griffiths, almost eight million people fled from Ukraine to neighbouring countries, while another 5.3 million are internally displaced. The Head of...
The confirmed death toll in Turkey following a devastating earthquake in the Syrian-Turkish border region has risen to 3,381. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said more than 20,000 people were injured. AFAD added that over 5,700 buildings were reported to have collapsed. Weather conditions were very bad...
Ihlas News Agency has reported that an explosion hit a gas pipeline in Türkiye’s southern province of Hatay after two strong earthquakes jolted the country early Monday. Türkiye’s state-owned energy company, BOTAS, announced that it had suspended natural gas flow to southern Gaziantep, Hatay and Kahramanmaras provinces. Vice President...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the attack against a helicopter of the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). The helicopter came under fire on Sunday while travelling from Beni to Goma, North Kivu province, resulting in one South African peacekeeper...
Burkina Faso’s transition government has announced that the remains of President Thomas Sankara and his 12 companions assassinated on 15 October 1987 will be reburied later this month, at the Thomas Sankara Memorial in the capital, Ouagadougou. This decision is the result of consultations within the Armed Forces, the...
UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said that aid agencies faced growing demands and shrinking funds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UN agency made the disclosure in a statement as crowds in DRC thronged to hear Pope Francis’s message of hope and solidarity on his...
Russia is preparing a massive new missile attack on targets in Ukraine, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s southern military command said on Thursday. The spokesperson pointed to movements by the Russian Black Sea fleet. Most of the fleet had returned to their bases, and this suggests a new missile strike,...
Pope Francis has denounced the “poison of greed” driving conflicts in Africa, saying the rich world needs to realise that people are more precious than the minerals in the earth beneath them. Many tens of thousands of people cheered as he travelled from the airport into the capital Kinshasa...
By OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja – The leadership of the Ambazonia Interim Government, an independentist group in Southern Cameroon has called on the United States Government to take the led in the negotiation process that will lead to a peace talk with La Republique du Cameroon (LRC). NATIONAL ACCORD reports...
Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has appointed the vice-minister of education, Manuela Roka Botey, as prime minister, the first time a woman has held the role in the West African country. Botey’s new position was announced on state television late on Tuesday. Obiang, 80, was re-elected for a...
Pope Francis on Tuesday departed the Vatican on for his first international trip this year a six-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan. The pontiff’s plane took off in the morning from Rome. His first destination is the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, where he...
China’s Foreign Ministry sought to blame the United States for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming Washington created the conditions that led to the war. Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Monday. The spokesperson also condemned the weapons deliveries for inflaming the conflict as it...