Avellon Williams HAVANA, CUBA- The United States Coast Guard recently reported that 119 Cuban migrants were returned to Cuba in dozens of operations conducted over three days, as an increasing number of Cuban migrants attempted to enter the U.S. through its waters. “The migrants were swept up in the south Florida straits from the Bahamas […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia has distanced itself from a recent report issued by a rights group that revealed it is mistreating thousands of Tigrayans deported from Saudi Arabia. According to the Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Dina Mufti, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report was an irresponsible move to downgrade the government’s efforts. “The report is not only […]
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Faith Nyasuguta According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) ,severe lockdowns are no longer the best way to battle coronavirus waves. “The period where we are using severe lockdowns as a tool is over. We should actually be looking at how we use public health and social measures more carefully […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria has classified criminal gangs –bandits, blamed for mass abductions of schoolchildren- under “terrorist” groups , a move aimed at containing rising insecurity in the north. For over a year now, Nigeria’s northwest and north-central states have been ravaged by violence sparked by disputes over access to land and resources, among other factors. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Job Ndugai, Tanzania’s National Assembly Speaker has resigned , just three days after making a public apology to President Samia Suluhu following his remarks on the nation’s borrowing. In a statement directed to news outlets, Ndugai said he had written to his party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), on his “personal decision” to resign as […]
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Avellon Williams VATICAN – Pope Francis has ruffled the feathers of childless pet owners by suggesting those who replace their children with pets show “a certain selfishness”. In a public address at the Vatican on Wednesday, Pope Francis said that pets “sometimes take the place of children” in modern society. “Today … we see a form […]
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Faith Nyasuguta All 15 jails in Liberia have run out of food for prisoners this week. Following this, two correctional facilities, among them the main Monrovia Central Prison have temporarily closed their doors to newcomers, according to prison officials. The situation has been tied to a number of factors including delays in remission of funds […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A Niger mayor and his driver have been nabbed in a northern Niger desert with over 200kg of cocaine in their car, police have revealed. The duo, that has been kept anonymous, is reported to have been ferrying the drug to Libya after it had been smuggled into the nation from Mali. According […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South African investigators have handed over the first installment of a long-awaited report into graft during ex-president Jacob Zuma’s tenure. The report of the investigation done for four years was handed to Zuma’s successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has pledged to root out graft and financial sleaze. “This is what I would call a […]
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Avellon Williams HONG KONG — As part of the city’s effort to stem an outbreak of omicron, Hong Kong authorities banned flights from the U.S. and seven other countries for two weeks on Wednesday. The city also halted 2,500 passengers from boarding a cruise ship for coronavirus testing. From Sunday through January 21, passenger flights from Australia, Canada, France, […]
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