A spokesperson for the United States Department of State, Matthew Miller, has said at least nine Americans have been killed in the attack launched by Hamas terrorists on Israel, according to CNN. Earlier, US Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer in a statement that four American citizens lost their lives in the assault on Sunday. […]

  A landslide caused by heavy rainfall has killed at least 23 people in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, firefighters said on Monday, as they searched for more victims. Landslides are frequent during the rainy season in Yaounde, where houses are sometimes built precariously on the city’s many hills. The latest incident occurred on Sunday evening in […]

  The United States has given Ukraine 1.1 million rounds of rifle ammunition to help in its war with Russia. In an X post on Wednesday evening, the US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the Middle East, said the rounds were confiscated from a ship bound for Yemen in December. According to the […]

  A document seen by the BBC has shown that Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations (UN) human rights council. Russia was expelled from the council in April 2022 after its soldiers invaded Ukraine. The UN adopted the resolution after hundreds of civilian bodies were found in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital […]

  The two rounds of voting initially set for February 4 and 18, 2024 in Mali would be postponed according to a government spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, on Monday. Maiga, in a statement, attributed the postponement to “technical reasons”, adding that “those reasons include issues linked to the adoption this year of a new constitution and […]

  A United Nations, UN, commission said, on Monday, it is gathering more and more evidence in Ukraine that the Russian army is torturing and attacking civilians. “There is continuous evidence that Russian armed forces are committing war crimes in Ukraine,” the commission reported to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. It […]

  The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence is offering soldiers to support armed police in London after dozens of police officers stood down from firearms duties, BBC reports. More than 100 officers have turned in permits allowing them to carry weapons, a source told the BBC, in support of a fellow officer who has been […]

  President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has appointed his son, David Kudakwashe Mnangagwa, as the deputy finance minister in a new cabinet following his re-election. The appointment which happened on Monday, however, has been greeted with backlash criticism on Monday, as this raised concerns about nepotism within the government. While the 34-year-old David Mnangagwa will […]

  A two-year transition before the free elections promised by Gabon’s new military rulers is a “reasonable objective” the new prime minister they appointed told AFP in an interview Sunday It’s good to set off with a reasonable objective by saying: we have the desire to see the process come to an end in 24 […]

  Spain on Sunday sent a plane with 56 rescuers and four search dogs to quake-hit Morocco after it received a formal request for help from Rabat, the defence ministry said. An A400 military plane took off from a base in the northeastern city of Zaragoza with the team bound for Marrakesh to “help in […]