UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday warned that thousands of severely malnourished boys and girls in Somalia were at risk of dying, urging donors to step up support amid historic drought. UNICEF’s spokesperson, James Elder told, journalists in Geneva that without greater action and investment, “we are facing the...
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A helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath in India’s Himalayan region crashed on Tuesday, killing all six on board, a police official said. Two pilots and four pilgrims died in the crash in the northern state of Uttarakhand, its police chief, Ashok Kumar, told Reuters by telephone, adding that a...
A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv early on Tuesday. A Reuters witness said, the latest strike on a city hours after the United States warned that it would hold Russia accountable for war crimes. The missile, which caused one of three explosions...
Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding across West and Central Africa has affected five million people in 19 countries across the region, claiming hundreds of lives, upending livelihoods, displacing tens of thousands from their homes and decimating over a million hectares of cropland – in a region already in the...
Workers including teachers in 15 Ghanaian public universities on Monday declared a strike over their allowance disputes with the government. Four labor unions of public universities said in a statement that the decision followed the variation of their conditions of service by the government. According to them, their leadership...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the new Russian missile and drone attacks as terror against the civilian population. The country was attacked during the night and throughout the morning, the head of state announced on Monday. The president said an inhabited building was hit in the capital. “The...
U.S. billionaire and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates on Monday said he was ready to have a meeting with the Taliban if it would help eradicate poliomyelitis in Afghanistan. “Honestly, I don’t know if there’s some sensitivity around that. I would do pretty much anything to help the polio campaign,...
The war in Ukraine and rising inflation has pushed an addition four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty. The United Nations Children’s agency UNICEF said in a report released on Monday. The figure, representing a 19 per cent increase since 2021, showed that children were...
Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and eight civilian auxiliaries in an attack Saturday in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, security sources told AFP. The soldiers, who were patrolling with the auxiliaries, were caught in an ambush in the district of Bouroum, said one source. Another source, confirming the attack,...
Russia said two gunmen from an ex-Soviet state on Saturday attacked a military training ground killing 11 people who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine and wounding 15 others. Russia’s defence ministry said the attack in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, happened during a firearms training session. Russia...
Britain’s new finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that some taxes would go up and tough spending decisions were needed. His remark signals further reversals from Prime Minister Liz Truss as she battles to keep her job just over a month into her term. In an attempt to...
President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Justice Edward Amoako Asante has been re-elected by his peers for an initial two years following an election by the Court’s five-member college of judges. The President of the ECOWAS Court was re-elected on Oct. 13 alongside the Vice President of the...
UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked, the BBC and Sky News reported on Friday quoting unnamed sources, as Prime Minister Liz Truss tries to save her beleaguered premiership. The BBC said Kwarteng, who only on Thursday said he was “not going anywhere” despite market turmoil at the...
At least 11 people were killed and 53 injured when a bus hit an explosive device in central Mali on Thursday, according to a hospital source. The explosion occurred on the road between Bandiagara and Goundaka in the Mopti area in the early afternoon, a security source said. The...
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to give up his war in Ukraine, saying the world did not want to see an escalation of the violence. “We do not want a world war,” Macron tweeted on Thursday. “We are helping Ukraine to resist on...
President Muhammmadu Buhari has appealed to member states of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) to remit their outstanding Annual Assessed Contributions to the Secretariat to meet the Commission’s objectives. The President made the appeal at a virtual meeting of the Heads of State and Government of member states...
U.S. President, Joe Biden has said the UN resolution against Russia’s annexations in Ukraine, passed with a historic majority, was a message to Moscow that it can’t erase sovereign state from the map. President Biden made the remarks in a statement issued by the White House on Thursday. He...
Turkey aims to help stop the “bloodshed” in the war between Russia and Ukraine inspite the high hurdles, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at a regional summit in Kazakhstan. “Our goal is to help stop the bloodshed as soon as possible by maintaining the momentum gained in spite...
Health ministers from 11 African countries are meeting in Uganda on Wednesday over the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in the East African country. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Uganda, the ministers are discussing cross-border collaboration for preparedness and response to the...
United Nations agencies on Wednesday said severe drought followed by floods has led to rocketing food prices and left a record of 2.1 million people acutely hungry in Chad. The United Nations children’s fund said as a result of the climate disaster, 10 per cent of all children under...