Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Africans, especially Nigerians, to eschew division and pursue peace at all time. He said this at a peace summit organised by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the summit is aimed...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years. The Horn of Africa includes Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya. According to UN health agency, more than 37 million people...
he Biden administration has imposed fresh economic sanctions on pro-Kremlin oligarchs and on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s purported girlfriend. “As innocent people suffer from Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Putin’s allies have enriched themselves and funded opulent lifestyles,” said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday. “The Treasury Department will...
A United States drone strike killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri at a hideout in Kabul, President Joe Biden said Monday, declaring that “justice had been delivered” to the families of the 9/11 attacks. Zawahiri’s assassination is the biggest blow to Al-Qaeda since US special forces killed Osama bin Laden...
The trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma for corruption was adjourned again until Oct. 17 in a Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday. The case was adjourned pending the outcome of Zuma’s leave to appeal. Zuma faces corruption, fraud, money laundering, and racketeering charges. Presiding Judge Piet Koen...
A watch believed to have been owned by Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler has sold at auction for nearly £1million, generating harsh criticism from Jewish leaders. The gold watch belonging to Hitler was looted from his mountain hideout by a French soldier in the closing moments of the second world...
At least 16 people were killed in two-midweek attacks in northeastern Mali by suspected jihadists on encampments of nomadic tribesmen, local sources told AFP on Sunday. “The killings took place in the evening between Wednesday and Thursday with the same modus operandi: assailants on motorbikes who came into the...
Chinmay Foundation, a leading international people’s enhancement organization for peace & harmony, which was established in Babalpur village of Jajpur district of Odisha state, has continued to carry out its uninterrupted awareness & relief distribution programs to combat the effect of COVID-19 epidemic around the world. During the foundation’s...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious in the face of Russia’s invasion, as he honoured a new holiday marking the country’s statehood. It was a troubled morning with missile terror, but Ukraine would not give up, Zelensky announced in Kiev. He congratulated...
U.S. President Joe Biden is leaving his COVID-19 isolation after testing negative twice, the White House said. Biden tested positive on Thursday and was said to have experienced “very mild symptoms’’. He went into isolation and was given a five-day course of Paxlovid, a Coronavirus treatment medication. White House...
Miners in Angola have unearthed a rare pure pink diamond that is believed to be the largest found in 300 years, the Australian site operator announced on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The 170 carat pink diamond dubbed The Lulo Rose, was discovered at Lulo mine in the country’s diamond-rich...
Preliminary data early on Wednesday indicated that the volume of gas delivered from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was sinking, as Russian gas provider Gazprom had earlier said. While 27 million kilowatt-hours of gas arrived at the German terminal in Lubmin between 6 a.m. (0400...
State-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), on Wednesday said that the death toll in the suspected toxic liquor consumption in the western Indian state of Gujarat rose to 33. It said that more than 45 people who had consumed toxic liquor are undergoing treatment in Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad hospitals...
At least 471 people were killed, injured or missing as a result of fierce clashes this month between rival gangs in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations said Monday. “Serious incidents of sexual violence against women and girls as well as boys being recruited by gangs have also been...
Pope Francis on Monday apologised for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalised generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and indigenous...
The police say 29 people died after consuming toxic liquor in India’s western state of Gujarat. The victims were mostly villagers from the Botad district, officials at the police control room said. Preliminary laboratory tests indicated that chemicals including methanol were present in the liquor mix, regional police official...
Tunisians are to head to polls on Monday to vote in a referendum on a controversial draft constitution that grants the president wide powers amid a months-long political crisis in the country, the birthplace of the 2010-11 Arab Spring revolts. The opposition has called for a boycott of the...
More than two in five UK airport workers are considering leaving the industry, new research suggests. A survey of 1,700 workers by jobs site CV-Library found reasons for wanting to quit included wanting better pay and less stress. Only five per cent of respondents blamed the current situation at...
Pope Francis on Sunday arrived in Canada to apologise to residential school survivors on their lands for the Catholic Church’s operation of residential schools throughout the country. The Pope will make three stops in the course of his five-day tour of Edmonton, Alberta, the province that hosts the most...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the West African Society of Pharmacology (WASP) to spearhead research for the production of vaccines to contain epidemics that are endemic in the sub-region. Jonathan gave the advice in Abuja on Saturday at a programme of the West African Society of...