Kenya Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters
Kenya police fires teargas at small groups of protesters gathered on what was billed as a fresh day of action against embattled President Ruto. Riot police patrolled the streets of the central business district, roadblocks were set up on major arteries and many shops were shut down, but barely dozens of demonstrators turned out, AFP journalists said. The East African nation,...
UK Prime Minister Won’t Press India’s Modi To Take Harsher Stance On Ukraine
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson played down the prospects of getting India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take a harsher stance on Ukraine, during the first leg of a two-day visit to the country intended to accelerate a post-Brexit trade de...
Nigeria, South Africa to establish joint council on industry, trade and investment
Patricia Ngwenya - South Africa The federal government of Nigeria and the Republic of South Africa have agreed to establish a joint economic advisory council on industry, trade and investment. This was the highpoint of trade talks between Presidents of the two countries yesterday Thursday 3rd October, at the Union buildings, Pretoria, South Africa. President Muhammadu Buhari is on a three...
UNHCR: Ukraine Could Become “Europe’s Largest Refugee Crisis This Century”
The situation in Ukraine could become “Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century” with more than 600,000 refugees believed to have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries so far, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday. "UNHCR is mobilizing resources to respond as quickly and effectively as possible,” the statement added. Earlier on Tuesday, UNHCR issued an appeal for $1.7 billion USD in...
US Ambassador Visits Israel To Settle Disputes In Lebanon
On Thursday, top US officials were scheduled to meet with their Israeli counterparts to discuss a possible agreement to end the war in Lebanon. The US visit came as the Palestinian militant group Hamas rejected separate truce proposals for the fighting in Gaza, where Israeli strikes continued overnight. Less than a week before the US presidential election, Washington’s envoys, Amos Hochstein...
BREAKING! Ex-Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Is Dead
Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who led the West African country from 2013 until he was ousted in a coup in 2020, died at the age of 76 in the capital Bamako on Sunday, his family said. “President IBK died this morning at 0900 GMT in his home” in Bamako, a family member told AFP using the ex-leader’s initials,...
Japan To Widen Export Sanctions Against Russia
Japan will introduce sanctions against two Russian and one Belarusian bank and will expand the ban on goods export to Russia due to the situation around Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry of Japan said on Tuesday. Assets of the Russian Agricultural Bank, ...
Zelensky Urges New Sanctions Against Russia In Address To Australian Parliament
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for further sanctions on Russia during a virtual address to the Australian parliament on Thursday. “The distance between our country is big,” said Zelensky, “but there is no such thing as distance to Russians' brutality to our Ukrainian land.” Zelensky warned of great implications to global security if Russia isn’t stopped and also spoke about what...
US Election: Democrat’s Leftist Mamdani Emerge As New York’s First Muslim Mayor
Democrats notched major victories across the United States on Tuesday, in a series of closely watched local elections seen as the first major electoral verdict on President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term in the White House. In New York City, leftist Zohran Mamdani was projected to win the mayoral race, according to US networks NBC, CBS and CNN. The Democratic socialist and...
Dementia, Seventh Leading Cause Of Death Globally Says WHO
The World Health Organisation has disclosed that dementia is the seventh leading cause of death globally. The organization also added that dementia research accounts for less than 1.5 percent of total health research output. Dementia is a syndrome in which there is deterioration in cognitive function beyond what might be expected from the usual consequences of biological aging. According to WHO, there are...
