Madagascar police killed 19 people and injured 21 when they opened fire on Monday on a crowd trying to storm a police station to seek revenge against suspected criminals, police said on Tuesday. The shooting took place in the town of Ikongo, about 330 km (205 miles) southeast of...
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Angola’s main opposition party has submitted a legal complaint challenging the electoral commission’s finding that the governing party won last week’s election, a letter seen by Reuters shows. In a separate statement on Tuesday, the opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), said it...
The United Nations has issued a flash appeal for 160 million dollars to help Pakistan tackle devastating floods that had killed more than 1,100 people since mid-June. Officials said on Tuesday that the pledge drive was launched in Geneva and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, simultaneously. “United Nations is issuing...
The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Angola’s ruling party, was declared winner of the 2022 general elections held last week. The party won with 51.17 per cent of the total votes cast, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced. The nation’s largest opposition party, the National Union...
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau and Miss Lyop Malo, winner of the Best for business plan in West Africa” at the Liventis Foundation Business Competition, during her visit to the governor. A young agri-preneur, Miss Lyop Malo, has emerged winner of the “Best for business plan in West Africa”...
The United Nations (UN) officials said its set to launch a flash appeal on Tuesday to help Pakistan tackle devastating floods that have killed more than 1,100 people so far. The global body said it was seeking 161 million dollars to provide critical food and cash assistance to victims....
Turkey on Monday detained eight Islamic State (IS) suspects in police raids in the Black Sea province of Samsun, local media reported. Samsun police detained one Syrian and seven Iraqi nationals in the district of Ilkadim and seized digital materials belonging to them. The Turkish government designated the IS...
Charred cars and buildings pockmarked by bullets scarred Libya’s capital on Sunday, the day after intense fighting killed 32 people yet appeared to leave the Tripoli government more firmly entrenched. Battles raged across the city throughout Saturday as forces aligned with the parliament-backed administration of Fathi Bashagha failed to...
Libya’s worst fighting for two years suddenly hit the capital, Tripoli, on Saturday. This explains what led to the violence, why it matters, and how things may play out. Libya’s fault lines surfaced as local groups took different positions in the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. An...
About 28 people died and 48 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said at least 11 children and three women were among those who lost their lives in different rain-related...
The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,033, according to figures released Sunday by the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). It said 119 people had died in the previous 24 hours as heavy rains continued to lash parts of the country. The annual...
The Chinese language will soon be integrated into the country’s educational curriculum, a senior Ghanaian official said here Friday. Divine Yao Ayidzoe, the chief director for the Ministry of Education, made the remarks at a public lecture organized by the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast (UCC)...
Russia’s Defence Ministry has confirmed that its forces were behind Wednesday’s missile strike on a railway station in central Ukraine that Kiev said left at least 25 people dead, including civilians. However, Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov claimed that more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers on their way to...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree to increase the headcount of the country’s army, as Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine enters its seventh month. Russia’s army will have over two million people, including 1.15 million servicemen, starting January next year, according to the decree published on...
Another group of U.S. lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday, local media reports. The report said this was the third of such visits this month and defying pressure from Beijing for these trips not to take place. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory against the strong...
The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum has announced the arrival of John Godfrey to take up the role of first U.S. Ambassador to Sudan in almost 25 years. The embassy said in a statement that in 1993, the U.S. listed Sudan as a country sponsoring terrorism, accusing Khartoum of supporting...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres says the “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old with no end in sight, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace. Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday that the “sad and tragic milestone” coincided with Ukraine’s 31st anniversary of independence. He, however, congratulated...
At least 22 people were killed and dozens wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station on Wednesday, Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as his nation marked the anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union. Zelenskiy had warned of Russian attacks on Independence Day, which...
Mr Francis SIMPORE, Executive Director, ECOWAS Center for Renewable and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), says the agency is set to ensure sustainable energy across ECOWAS Member States by 2030. SIMPORE made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, during a joint news conference with the Ministry of Power, ahead of the...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced nearly $3 billion in new military aid for Ukraine to coincide with the country’s Independence Day celebrations. “I know this Independence Day is bittersweet for many Ukrainians as thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have been displaced from their homes, and...