Ekeomah Atuonwu An Anglican archbishop has slammed the British government’s plan to send some asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda, claiming that “subcontracting out our responsibilities” to refugees will fail to pass God’s test. In his Easter Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby took an unusually direct political intervention, saying there are “severe […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu According to a record of a cabinet meeting obtained on Saturday, Kinshasa has condemned the shooting of one of its emigrants by a white US police officer over two weeks ago. Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old whose family apparently relocated to the United States in 2014 to escape the DRC’s civil war, was slain […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The United States has approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale to Nigeria, after lawmakers put the deal on hold due to concerns about possible human rights violations by the Nigerian government. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee both put a halt to the sale of 12 Bell […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Heavy rains and flooding wreaked havoc on South Africa’s eastern coast, killing hundreds of people and destroying homes and roads. Flooding struck the KwaZulu-Natal province, which includes the coastal city of Durban. Roads cracked and deep fissures formed. A massive stack of shipping containers fell into muddy waters. A bridge was washed away, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Israeli soldiers have killed five Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, including a 14-year-old boy, as part of ongoing raids by Israel’s armed forces in response to a series of deadly attacks inside Israel. According to the Palestinian health ministry, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid early Thursday, while three […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu WhatsApp is currently testing a new feature dubbed Communities, which allows users to organize groups into larger structures that could be used in workplaces or schools. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, the parent company, announced this in a Facebook post, saying that the new WhatsApp feature will allow for deeper […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Police in Michigan have released video of a black man being shot in the back of the head by a white cop during a struggle over the officer’s Taser following a traffic stop, prompting calls for justice as the family’s high-profile attorney claimed ‘unnecessary, excessive use of force was used.’ Police released footage […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The death of a pregnant woman in Senegal after she was denied a caesarean section in a hospital has sparked outrage in the West African country, where the president has promised an investigation. According to local press, Astou Sokhna died nine months pregnant on April 7 in a public hospital in the northern town of Louga, after […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The Malian army said on Tuesday that three Europeans suspected of “terrorism” were apprehended in central Mali during operations against jihadists. “On April 10, 2022, a Malian military detachment from Diabaly arrested five suspects, including three European nationals,” the general staff said in a statement. The suspects were arrested in Diabaly, about 300 kilometers (185 […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The use of physical cash has been declining for years, but this trend only accelerated during the pandemic when contactless transactions became the name of the game. Hundreds of people are going much further than simply foregoing chip and pin—by having a microchip implanted into their skin that can be used in place […]
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