UNICEF has announced the arrival of 1.2 million doses of vital polio vaccines in Gaza, amid urgent calls for humanitarian pauses to reach hundreds of thousands of at-risk children. More than 640,000 children are targeted to receive the polio type two (nOPV) vaccines, UNICEF said in a post on X on Monday. The World Health…
The mayor of the western German city of Solingen has appealed for calm, as political debates on deportations and weapons reform raged just three days after a deadly knife attack in the city. “Let’s calm down,’’ Tim Kurzbach said after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the premier of the state of North…
The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Mohammed Fall, has called for universities’ stakeholders to collaborate with governments to accelerate efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Fall made this call at the second national conference of the Lagos State University’s Centre for the Actualisation of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals…
Vietnam’s top legislature approved the appointment of three deputy prime ministers, two ministers, chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court and prosecutor general of the Supreme People’s Procuracy. Vietnam News Agency reported this on Monday. The three new deputy prime ministers are Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Nguyen Hoa Binh, Minister of Finance…
Prof. Okello Oculi, a political scientist, has urged leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to decide on what political morality they intend to follow. Oculi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Abuja. He said that African leaders should either choose between morality based on…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in the western city of Solingen on Monday morning, three days after the fatal knife attack there. Scholz was first greeted by Mayor Tim Kurzbach at Solingen’s city hall. Also present were Hendrik Wüst, state premier of North Rhine Westphalia where Solingen is located, Deputy Premier Mona Neubaur and…
The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have written to the UN Security Council to denounce what they said was Ukraine’s support for rebel groups in West Africa’s Sahel region, Mali’s foreign ministry said. Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine in early August over comments by a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency,…
German police have arrested a 54-year-old suspect believed to be the gunman behind a fatal shooting on a railway platform in the busy Frankfurt Central Station on Tuesday night. The victim, a 27-year-old man, was standing on the station’s Platform 9 at around 9 pm (1900 GMT) on Tuesday when a gunman approached him from…
Officials preparing for elections in Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine are to be issued body armour and helmets, the head of the regional electoral commission, Tatyana Malakhova said, according to Russian news agencies. Additional polling booths will also be set up for people displaced from parts of the region where Ukrainian forces have conducted a…
The European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, on Wednesday called Ukraine’s Kursk offensive a “severe blow” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Borrell also appeared to argue in favour of lifting territorial restrictions on the use of western arms supplies by Ukraine. Some donor countries have insisted that their weapons only be used in Ukrainian…
