Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed Friday to “bury the enemy” in his first message from the battlefront, state media said, after he announced plans to lead a counter-offensive against Tigrayan rebels. As the rebels report major territorial gains, claiming this week to have seized a town just 220...
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Libya’s government has condemned an attack on a court ahead of an appeal by the son of slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi against the rejection of his presidential election candidacy. The December 24 polls come as Libya seeks to turn a page on a decade of violence that has rocked...
Former Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Judge Marcelo Bretas said the 79-year-old played a leading role in a scheme to buy votes for Rio de Janeiro to...
At least 43 people were killed and 46 villages were burned and looted in Sudan’s West Darfur State, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan said on Thursday. “On Nov. 17, conflict broke out between Arab nomads and farmers from the Misseriya Jebel tribe...
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister, a judicial source told AFP. The men were found guilty of committing 54 “terrorist operations” across Egypt, including the murder of a senior police...
The Governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, on Thursday announced the death of nine miners after a serious accident in a Russian coal mine in Siberia. Tsivilev said that 49 people were still underground and that there was no communication with them. The TASS news agency reported that...
French Interior Ministry on Thursday confirmed the death of 27 migrants who died after their boat capsized in the English Channel. A spokesperson for the ministry said that the death toll of the tragedy, which was revised down from 31, was still preliminary. On Wednesday, French Interior Minister Gerald...
Sweden’s Prime Minister-elect Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday handed in her resignation hours after being appointed by parliament after her budget failed to pass and the junior Green Party quit the coalition government. While her stint was unexpectedly brief, Andersson made history by becoming the first woman elected to the...
A Junior High School boy, who fatally stabbed a fellow student in central Japan, said he had troubles with the victim and held grudges against him, local media reported Thursday. The alleged attacker, whose name had been withheld as he is a minor, told investigators that he bought a...
An Indian man mistakenly declared dead after a road accident has been found still breathing in a hospital morgue freezer. Srikesh Kumar suffered critical injuries after a speeding motorbike hit him last week and was declared dead on arrival at a hospital in Moradabad, east of the capital New...
No fewer than 2.6 million people (that is nearly 22 percent of the population), in 66 out of 74 districts across Somalia are affected by worsening drought, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Wednesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said nearly 113,000 people...
A total of 703 projects, with total investment of 582.18 billion yuan (91.1 billion U.S. dollars), was inked at the fourth World Manufacturing Convention held in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province. According to the organising committee, the four-day event, was themed “innovation-driven, digitally empowered: global manufacturing industry aligned for...
Sweden‘s parliament has confirmed Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson as the country’s first female prime minister. The 54-year-old, who took over as leader of the governing Social Democrat party earlier this month, was elected as outgoing leader Stefan Lofven’s successor during a confirmation vote in parliament on Wednesday. A...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to direct the war effort from the front lines, state-affiliated media reported. PM Ahmed had on Tuesday vowed to lead his country’s army ‘from the battlefront’ after Tigray rebels threatened to march on Addis Ababa. Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen will...
The son and namesake of the Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos said Tuesday he took a cocaine test after President Rodrigo Duterte accused an unnamed presidential candidate of using the illegal drug. Marcos Jr, who is among the frontrunners seeking to succeed Duterte in 2022, said in a statement...
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has charged the ECOWAS Court of Justice to save 5.5 million possible displaced persons in West Africa. Regional Director of UNHCR West & Central Africa, Ms. Millicent Mutuli, said the Court, through its advocacy, held the key to curbing the rising...
No fewer than 46 people, most of them tourists from North Macedonia, died as a bus crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said. Children were among the victims, and seven survivors needing treatment for burns were rushed to hospital in the capital Sofia,...
Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan, whose iron-fisted rule of the country following a 1979 military coup sparked massive democracy protests, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, his former press aide said. Chun had multiple myeloma, a blood cancer which was in remission, and his health had...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Monday that maintaining the economic gains from the past two years was among the reasons he had decided to return to his post, under a deal with the military nearly a month after he was removed in a coup. In an interview...
The Vice President of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Ms. Finda Koroma has said the only successful way to fight terrorism within the region is to attack its root causes. Ms. Koroma said this at the inauguration of the Early Warning Study on the Spillover of Violent...