The tomb of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez was torched in his hometown of Qardaha, AFP footage taken Wednesday showed, with rebel fighters in fatigues and young men watching it burn. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor told AFP the rebels had set fire to the mausoleum, located in the Latakia […]
A Sudanese military air strike on a market in North Darfur killed more than 100 people on Monday, a pro-democracy lawyers’ group said Tuesday, in a war marked by claims of atrocities on all sides. The Emergency Lawyers said Monday’s air strike also left hundreds injured in Kabkabiya, a town about 180 kilometres (112 miles) […]
South Korean authorities banned more top officials from leaving the country Tuesday, Yonhap reported, in the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s bungled attempt to impose martial law. A day after Yoon himself was hit with a travel ban, his party was forging a “resignation roadmap” that reportedly could see him step down in February […]
A United Kingdom upper tribunal has reversed a previous ruling that stopped the deportation of 43-year-old Nigerian Olutobi Ogunbawo. The decision comes after his wife, Maria Adesanya, claimed that in vitro fertilisation treatment was unavailable in Nigeria, a key argument in their defence. Ogunbawo, convicted in 2019 for immigration offences related to conspiring with a […]
President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States would engage with “all Syrian groups” over the political transition after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. “We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime toward independent, sovereign” Syria […]
Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus. The announcement comes as Russia, a key Assad ally, called for an emergency meeting of the UN security council on the fast-changing situation on the ground […]
Ghana’s former President John Dramani Mahama has won the country’s presidential election after his main opponent, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat. “The people of Ghana have spoken, the people have voted for change at this time and we respect it with all humility,” Bawumia said in a news conference on Sunday. Read Also: Just […]
The impeachment motion filed against Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korean president, by the country’s opposition parties has failed. The motion fell through on Saturday after close to 108 members of Yeol’s People Power Party (PPP) staged a walkout from the legislative chamber. The opposition parties needed just eight votes from the PPP to achieve the […]
Ghana counted ballots on Saturday after a tight election with the ruling party’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia trying to shake off anger over economic woes and rebuff a challenge by opposition party candidate ex-president John Mahama. Ghana’s struggling economy dominated the election, after the west Africa gold and cacao producer went through a debt default, […]
The Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (HCAA) has appointed Chinasa Unaegbunam, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as a member of its advisory board. In a statement on Friday, Tunde Moshood, spokesperson to Festus Keyamo, minister of aviation and aerospace development, said Unaegbunam’s appointment “is not only a personal achievement but also a significant […]
