The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has estimated that around 70 billion dollars will be required to reconstruct the Gaza Strip and make it safe following two years of devastating conflict. At just 41 kilometres long and between two and five kilometres wide, few areas of Gaza have been left untouched by the Israeli bombardment…
China has declared its support for the U.S.-led peace plan aimed at ending the ongoing Gaza war, urging both Israel and Palestine to immediately agree to a comprehensive ceasefire and release all detainees. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Guo Jiakan, made the call on Tuesday, stressing that Beijing supports all efforts to ease tensions in the region….
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel was “changing the face of the world” in its war with Iran, as he welcomed “all help” in destroying the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites. “I said that we’re changing the face of the Middle East, and now I say we’re changing the face of the world,”…
The streets of Tehran are seeing an unprecedented outflow of residents, as anxiety intensifies over the prospect of a full-blown war between Iran and Israel. With tensions soaring after a series of missile exchanges and increasingly bellicose rhetoric, Tehran’s exit routes have become paralysed with traffic. Petrol stations are overwhelmed, and queues snake for kilometres,…
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa arrived Kiev in a show of support on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. Upon her arrival on Monday, von der Leyen said she was in Kiev because “Ukraine is Europe. “In this fight for survival, it is not…
Former Nigerian Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), has said that Northerners first mooted the idea of secession. According to IBB, after the disappearance of Aguiyi-Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi, Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe sent Lt-Colonel Yakubu Gowon to the Ikeja cantonment to appeal to a group of headstrong northern officers led by Lt-Colonel Murtala Muhammed, along with Majors…
European leaders gathered on Monday for an emergency summit to discuss plans by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. There are fears that they might be frozen out of the negotiations. The goal is to agree on a common strategy for dealing with Trump, including what offers can be made to…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that a return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end. Guterres disclosed this in a statement relayed to journalists by UN Geneva spokesperson Rolando Gomez on Tuesday. “We must at all…
U.S. President Donald Trump has declared war on paper straws and is pushing for a return to plastic. Trump has signed an order in the White House stating that U.S. government departments and agencies should no longer procure and use paper straws in the future. His team is also to develop a national strategy to…
Israel threatened on Tuesday to return to war in Lebanon if its truce with Hezbollah collapses and said this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself, after the deadliest day since the ceasefire was agreed last week. In its strongest threat since the truce was agreed to end 14 months…
