DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – The Russia-Ukraine war has deepened the food, energy and economic crises in Africa and worldwide, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday. Speaking at a joint press conference with Senegal’s President Macky Sall at the Senegalese Presidential Palace, Guterres said that all unnecessary export restrictions s...
TEHRAN, Iran – Police cracked down on protests by teachers across Iran on Labour Day on Sunday. Teachers organized demonstrations in several cities on Labor Day to reiterate their demands for higher pay and better working conditions. Clashes broke out after police used force against protesters in the provinces of Fars, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, M...
ANKARA – Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority has said that its monthly revenues hit an all-time high in April. In a statement, the Suez Canal Authority said the international waterway made $629 million in revenues in April, an increase of 13.6% from $553.6 million last year. The strategic waterway raised the transit fees for ships since […]...
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned of an “impending environmental disaster” as a result of oil leaks due to lack of storage capacity for crude oil. “We have lost a lot of storage capacity and therefore we will not be able to store all the quantity (of crude oil),” the NOC […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday described US President Joe Biden’s suggestion to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine as “outrageous” and a “violation of all legal norms.” Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov said by expropriating private property, the US autho...
NAIROBI, Kenya- The Russian invasion of Ukraine has worsened the food security crisis in African countries, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a recently released report. The report noted that most African countries rely hugely on Ukraine and Russia for vegetable oils, fertilizers, wheat and wheat imports, which make up most staples. “The war ...
KHOST, AFGHANISTAN: In Khost province of Afghanistan, people have to use snow in summer to keep food fresh as there is no electricity. When it snows in the winter season, the local people in the mountainous areas of the city store the snow in special warehouses and then bring it by trucks to city during […]
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia is “on the verge of an economic disaster,” the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) said in a statement marking the Labor Day. “Tunisia is on the brink of an economic disaster for which it has not found solutions other than more debt and burdening the people with taxes, high prices and […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye and Saudi Arabia are striving to increase all kinds of political, military and economic relations to start a new era, the Turkish president said early Friday. “We paid a visit to Saudi Arabia upon the invitation of Khadimu’l Haremeyn (the Servant of Mecca and Medina)”, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referring to [...
MICHEWENI, Tanzania – Despite reaping good profits, spice and herbs farmers on Tanzania’s Pemba Island have experienced food insecurity after they had made a decision to stop growing conventional food crops in favor of high-valued spices. Amid rising costs of living triggered by spiraling food prices, hundreds of spice farmers on the tin...
