Ekeomah Atuonwu Authorities have confirmed that an earthquake rocked eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 255 people. The magnitude 6 quake that shook Paktika province remained unknown, but it comes as the international world has mostly fled Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the country last year, during the chaotic exit of the United States forces […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sent soldiers to Guinea-Bissau on Monday to assist with the country’s stabilization following an attempted coup earlier this year. The 15-nation group announced the deployment of the force in February, just days after President Umaru Sissoco Embalo escaped what he claimed a drug trafficking murder attempt. The 631 […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Africa was a “hostage” in the war with Russia, which had contributed to rising food prices on the continent. African countries are acutely affected by the growing crisis, which has sent prices of grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertilisers soaring. Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegalese President Macky Sall, who presently leads the African Union, urged Brussels on Sunday to allow African countries to pay for imported Russian wheat and fertilizers despite EU restrictions excluding Russian banks from international payment networks. “We want to pay, but it is getting increasingly difficult. As a result, we urge the Europeans for the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The World Trade Organization has struck deals on a partial patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines, and made agreements in several other fields of global contention, after a tense six-day ministerial meeting that has renewed some faith in the battered multilateral trading system. The decision follows intense negotiations at the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Barely two weeks after gunmen attacked a catholic church in south west Nigeria, another attack has just been reported at St. Moses Catholic Church in Robuh, Unguwan Aku, Kajuru Areaof Kaduna State, in Northern Nigeria while winding down their first mass. Reports reaching us say three worshipers were killed and many others were abducted. It was also gathered the terrorists came in […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Taliban religious police have put up posters across Kandahar, Afghanistan, accusing Muslim women of “trying to look like animals” by not wearing an Islamic hijab that fully covers their bodies. According to reports, the Taliban have imposed strict sanctions on Afghan women since taking power in August, and have reversed the modest gains made […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu After spending over 100 hours trapped in a well with a snake, an Indian boy was discovered alive. According to local news reports, Rahul Sahu, 10, became trapped in a 60-foot well in Chhattisgarh state in central India five days ago, with only a frog and a snake for company. He didn’t explain how […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Thirty-five teenage girls were rescued from a hotel in southeastern Nigeria where they were being forced into prostitution by a trafficking ring. According to local police, children born to these girls are sold. The girls, aged 14 to 17, were rescued from the Gally Gally hotel in Anambra state, where they had been “used as […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Nigerian soldiers have discovered one of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram operatives in the conflict-torn northeast eight years ago, according to the military. The April 2014 attack on a girls’ boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, and the subsequent mass kidnapping sparked international outrage and a global #BringBackOurGirlscampaign. On Wednesday, […]
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