The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) disclosed on Monday that at least 1.5 million livestock have died across drought-affected parts of Ethiopia. “Many regions in Ethiopia are currently experiencing one of the most severe La Nina-induced droughts in recent decades. “More than eight million people are acutely food insecure,...
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South African police minister Bheki Cele said on Monday that the police discovered more than 130 empty cartridges of AK47 at the scene of Sunday’s random shooting in Johannesburg, where 15 people were killed and eight people injured. This means the assailants meant “business of killing,” he told community...
The President Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his official residence. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the home as they continued their demand for his resignation. The President was hurriedly transported to the Army headquarters hours before the invasion. Sri Lankan military personnel joined the demonstrators who broke police barricades...
Elon Musk pulled the plug on his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on Friday, accusing the company of “misleading” statements about the number of fake accounts, a regulatory filing showed. Musk terminating the deal that he inked in April to buy the social media giant sets the stage...
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres and U.S. President,Joe Biden, have paid tributes to a former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on Friday. Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving leader, was shot from behind while speaking at a campaign event in the western city of Nara. The...
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, who ruled Angola with an iron fist for 38 years, died Friday at a hospital in Barcelona after suffering cardiac arrest, the government said. With “great pain and consternation” the Luanda government posted on Facebook confirmation of the Dos Santos’ death at 11:10 am (1010...
Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe died in hospital on Friday, local media reported, hours after being shot at a political campaign event in an attack condemned as “absolutely unforgivable”. Citing a senior member of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party, national broadcaster NHK said “former prime minister Abe died at...
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while delivering a speech ahead of a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind. The former prime minister collapsed and showed no sign of life...
Accra – Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of...
Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on on a caretaker basis until his successor was chosen. Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50...
Boris Johnson has planned a July wedding party with his wife, Carrie, at his prime ministerial retreat, multiple sources have said. Johnson, who resigned on Thursday, and his wife have sent save-the-date invitations to guests to the party at Chequers, the prime minister’s grace-and-favour home in Buckinghamshire, at the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to stand down as Conservative Party leader after losing the support of his ministers and MPs, the BBC is reporting. A Conservative leadership contest will take place this summer and a new prime minister will be in place in time for the party conference...
Zimbabwe’s central bank on Tuesday said it would start selling gold coins as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which had considerably weakened the local currency. The central bank governor John Mangudya said in a statement that the coins would be available for sale from July 25....
Hundreds of German police have carried out multiple raids early on Tuesday as part of an international operation targeting people-smuggling gangs. Police in the city of Osnabrück in north-western Germany said the raids focused on the area around the city, as well as Bremen and Stuttgart. Police in Britain,...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have adopted the recommendations of its mediator for Mali and Nigeria’s former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, concerning the lifting of economic sanctions on the country. in a document obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, Jonathan’s...
New suspected mass graves have been uncovered in Tarhuna, Libya, a UN Human Rights Council probe reported on Monday. The report highlighted continuing extreme rights abuses in the country that have affected children and adults alike. Speaking in Geneva, Mr Mohamed Auajjar, chairman of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on...
………As West Africa leaders commends Nigeria’s contributions By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – As President Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau assumes chairmanship of the West African regional body, ECOWAS, alongside a newly composed Commission, there are high expectations regarding the output of the body and the leaders must work harder to...
The latest outbreak of the Ebola disease in Congo has officially been declared over, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday. The organisation said that the outbreak affected the north-western Équateur province, with the first case recorded there on April 23. It said that in total, there...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed former Beninese President, Thomas Yayi Boni as its new mediator for the transition in Guinea. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission, made the announcement at a news conference on Sunday. The news conference was to conclude the...
Egyptian officials say that two women have now been killed in shark attacks while swimming in the Red Sea. The environment ministry says the attacks occurred within 600m (1,970 ft) of each other. The authorities had earlier announced that an Austrian woman in her 60s had died of her...