The Russian domestic intelligence service, the FSB, has reportedly arrested a German citizen in Kaliningrad on Wednesday for allegedly planning acts of sabotage. Upon entering the Russian Baltic Sea exclave from Poland, 50 grams of liquid explosives were allegedly seized in his car, which he had driven from his home in Hamburg. According to the…
The NNPC Foundation Limited has reiterated its commitment to promote global awareness and advocacy for better policies to mitigate sanitation crisis. Mrs Emmanuella Arukwe, Managing Director NNPC Foundation Ltd., made this known on Tuesday while commemorating the 2024 World Toilet Day (WTD) at the Junior Secondary School, Peyi, Bwari Area Council, Abuja. Arukwe underscored the…
Somaliland electoral commission on Tuesday said it has setup a leadership change as the breakaway Somali region pushes for global recognition. The commission also announced that opposition leader Abdirahman Cirro defeated incumbent president Muse Abdi in the just concluded election. Somaliland has had de facto self-rule since declaring independence from Somalia in 1991, but has…
The Chadian government has reportedly deported more than 600 irregular migrants from Nigeria who were primarily involved in begging and other illegal activities within the country. Sources indicate that those affected originated from Borno, Kano, Sokoto, and Kaduna States in northern Nigeria. Many of these individuals fled in large numbers during the height of the…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday called for the safe recovery of miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft amid a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners. The police have blocked miners’ supplies of food and water to force them out and arrest them for illegally entering the abandoned mine in…
Türkiye Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya announced on Monday that authorities have detained 1,644 irregular migrants and 51 human trafficking organisers in nationwide operations. Yerlikaya said on his social media platform X, that among the detained organisers, 11 were foreign nationals, adding that deportation procedures for the detained migrants have already been initiated. The minister did…
Hezbollah has confirmed the death of its Spokesman, Mohammed Afif, in an Israeli attack in Beirut. He was a “pillar” of Hezbollah’s media and political work, the pro-Iranian group said on Telegram. Afif was one of the few remaining publicly known faces of Hezbollah after the killing of the group’s leadership and had recently led…
Thousands of people in Slovakia took to the streets on Sunday to protest against the government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico, with the largest demonstration taking place in Bratislava. Opposition media reported that between 17,000 and 18,000 people participated in the rally in the capital. The protests, organised by two liberal and one conservative…
Austrian local police said on Monday that a German hiker died after falling from an alpine trail in the Austrian Alps. The incident took place near Bludenz, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, on Sunday night, according to police. The 54-year-old man, hiking with his wife and their dog, lost his footing at a dangerous…
At least six people have been killed and a “great many” more injured in a Russian attack on the city of Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine, the acting mayor said on Sunday evening. Artem Kobzar shared a video on Telegram in which he stood in front of a multi-storey residential building destroyed by the missile attack….
