Avellon Williams BRAZIL- Brazilian police and environmental protection agents were ambushed by illegal gold miners in the Amazon rainforest, and four miners were killed in the gunfire exchange. In a statement released on Monday, the Ministry of the Environment reported that an organised crime gang attacked its team the day before as they attempted to dismantle an illegal […]
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Avellon Williams GHANA- Dada Hafco, a Ghanaian highlife musician, believes that culture and creative industries hold greater fortunes for Ghana than sports. In an interview with Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z, Dada Hafco expressed concern about Ghana’s lackadaisical attitude towards the arts. He believes that football investment has not yielded the desired results. “Look at how much money we’ve […]
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Avellon Williams PORT-OF-PRINCE, HAITI- Haiti’s capital has reached levels of insecurity similar to war-torn countries, the United Nations said Monday in a report that highlighted a spike in murders and kidnappings. According to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ report, armed gangs expanded their territorial control into previously unaffected neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince. “With the high number of fatalities and increasing areas […]
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Avellon Williams SOUTH AFRICA- It appears that South Africans are becoming poorer, according to data from Capitec. One-third of South Africans rely on the lender for banking services, which says income levels did not keep up with inflation in the last financial year end-February. While the bank’s clients switched to more affordable products, they spent 16% more […]
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Avellon Williams YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON— A total of five people have died from cholera in Yaounde in the last month, according to the health ministry, which warned that the disease is on the rise. Since last month, five people have died from the disease, and more than 88 cases have been identified in the central region of the country, […]
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Avellon Williams NIGERIA- In the early hours of Monday, April 3, 2023, eight female students from Government Secondary School, Awon, Kachia Local Council, Kaduna State, who were kidnapped by terrorists on their way home from school, escaped from their captors. According to preliminary briefings, the students escaped from a thick forest around the Kaduna/Niger border, Kaduna State Commissioner for […]
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Avellon Williams WEST AFRICA- According to the United Nations food agency, 48 million people will go hungry across western and central Africa in the coming months due to efforts to contain inflation contributing to food shortages. A regional adviser at the World Food Programme, Ollo Sib, explained that coastal countries such as Togo and Benin have requested food assistance […]
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Avellon Williams MEXICO- The number of asylum claims by Haitians in Mexico is expected to rise to over 50,000 this year, further straining the country’s migrant services as many contemplate a future there rather than in the United States. A record 13,631 people applied for refugee status in the first quarter of this year, dwarfing claims from other countries and compared […]
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Avellon Williams SENEGAL- On Monday, the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification named Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maalits goodwill ambassador. Maal has been advocating for refugees and climate change for a long time. In 2003, he began working with a variety of U.N. family organizations in Africa to address different development challenges. Recently, his NANN-K Trust opened a solar-powered irrigation project […]
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Avellon Williams KENYA- Kenya’s manufactured goods are increasingly losing competitiveness in the global market due to high production costs, especially electricity. Electricity costs keep going up despite government promises to the contrary, increasing costs for manufacturers and consumers alike. Due to this, Parliament must come up with a roadmap on how to reduce consumer burdens this week when […]
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