The World Health Organization (WHO), on Wednesday, announced that eight persons have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania’s Northwestern region of Kagera. In a statement on Tuesday, the WHO warned that the risk of further spread of the deadly disease in the country and the region was high. WHO…
The UN Libya mission expressed its alarm over footage circulating on social media featuring “brutal torture and ill-treatment” of detainees at the Gernada detention facility in eastern Libya. Reuters was not able to independently verify the neither location nor date of the footage, however, architectural details seen on the videos, including the type of tiles…
President William Ruto said Kenya has started discussions with the United Arab Emirates to secure financing to complete a regional railway after China cut infrastructure funding to the project. The railway connecting the Kenyan port of Mombasa with landlocked neighbours, as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, ended in the Rift Valley in 2019,…
The Israeli government is hoping for a rapid conclusion to indirect negotiations with Hamas on the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip and the freeing of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, a government spokesman said. “We are really hoping that we will soon be able to announce good news,” he said, adding: “We are…
No fewer than 239,000 people attempted to enter the EU irregularly in 2024, down 38per cent from 2023, the EU border protection agency Frontex said. This was the lowest figure since 2021, when migration movements were restricted by the Coronavirus pandemic, the agency said on Tuesday in Warsaw. The Frontex annual report cites one main…
Prof Jonah Onuoha, Director, Centre for American Studies at University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) says, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s second tenure will impact significantly on advancing global peace. Onuoha said this in an interview with newsmen in Nsukka on Tuesday when he discussed Trump’s forthcoming inauguration on Jan. 20 as the 47th President of the…
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has urged Nigeria and other African nations to fully harness the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) through strategic investments. She made this call at the 10th Convocation Ceremony of the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) Class of 2024 in Abuja on Tuesday….
Continental stakeholders under the aegis of African parliamentarians, civil society organisations (CSOs), health experts, and development partners have pledged to end Tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 through collaboration. They made the pledge at the 5th Africa TB Summit on Tuesday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the summit was hosted by the…
Ukraine has damaged several industrial sites with a massive drone attack across various Russian regions. Roman Busargin, the governor of the Saratov region, said on messaging service Telegram on Tuesday that two facilities had been hit, one in Saratov and one in the city of Engels. He added that there were no casualties. Media reports…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday accused the United States of attempting to disrupt the TurkStream gas pipeline to Europe with the aid of attacks by Ukrainian drones. Lavrov said this in Moscow on Tuesday. The U.S. was pushing its “Ukrainian clients’’ to put TurkStream out of action following what he saw it as…
