Rwandan-backed rebels entered into Goma on Monday and troops from the East African neighbours exchanged fire over the border in the worst escalation of the long-running conflict for more than a decade. The rebel alliance spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia said it had captured the lakeside city of over one million people, which…
The European Union (EU) is ready to redeploy its border assistance mission at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, said on Monday. The civilian mission was launched in 2005 to assist with trade facilitation and the processing of biometric passports but was suspended in 2007 when Hamas…
Lebanese armed forces were deployed to several more villages in southern Lebanon on Monday, shortly after an announcement that a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was being extended until February 18. Lebanese forces partially re-entered the towns of Mais al Jabal and Houla, located along the southern demarcation line with neighbouring Israel. Lines of cars…
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris said on Monday in Brussels that it would benefit the U.S. if it did business with the European Union (EU) member countries. Harris said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ahead of the meeting of the foreign ministers of member countries of the EU. The…
Afghanistan has launched its first polio vaccination campaign of 2025, aimed at protecting around 6 million children under the age of five, the Health Ministry announced on Monday. The three-day campaign will target 16 of the country’s 34 provinces, ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said. The official urged community leaders and religious scholars to support the…
The Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit opened on Monday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with a clarion call by Dr Doto Biteko, Tanzania’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Energy, for more equitable and sustainable energy for the future. Biteko, who delivered the opening remark, said the summit was a catalyst to ongoing National Compact…
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the Yuan, strengthened seven pips to 7.1698 against the dollar on Monday. This is according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the Yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two per cent from the central parity rate…
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President/Chairman, Board of Directors, African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has called for urgent action on electrification for Africa to drive its development. He made the call while speaking on “Taking Africa’s Energy Agenda to the Next Level”, at the ongoing Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit on Monday in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania….
Both engines of a plane that crashed in South Korea in late December, killing 179 people, show traces of a bird strike, according to a preliminary investigation report released on Monday. South Korean investigators said feathers and blood stains belonging to the baikal teal species were found on the engines. The migratory duck is mainly…
European Union top diplomat Kaja Kallas on Monday said that she hopes EU foreign ministers will be able to agree on gradually suspending the bloc’s economic sanctions on Syria. The Ministers are to decide on a “roadmap” for a step-by-step approach, Kallas said as she arrived at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels….
