Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso has threatened to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) if the bloc intervenes militarily in Niger. “We expect aggression. In any case, our head of state said: We are ready for aggression, (and) we support Niger. Burkina Faso is even ready to withdraw from ECOWAS because […]
Accra, Ghana – AFP West African military chiefs said on Friday they were ready for an armed intervention in Niger after a coup ousted President Mohamed Bazoum last month, but a diplomatic mission was possible over the weekend to keep talks open. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has agreed to activate a […]
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Four months into Sudan’s conflict, the situation is spiralling out of control, with mass displacement and millions on the verge of famine, humanitarian organisations have warned, urging immediate international action. Since Sudan’s conflict erupted on April 15, the country has been plunged into a dir...
CAIRO, Egypt – The civil war has devastated health and sanitation infrastructure in the war-torn country of Sudan, according to Save the Children, an international non-government organization. The organization has warned that Sudan is at risk of major disease outbreaks. Residents report that the capital, Khartoum, is littered with bodie...
DAMASCUS, Syria – Thousands of people displaced by the Syrian civil war live in squalid, unofficial camps in the Kurdish-controlled northeast of the country. These camps are not recognized by the international community and do not receive the same level of support as official camps. As a result, people in these camps often live in [&hell...
MOSCOW (AA): Russia has said that the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, “lies” when he says sanctions on Moscow do not affect global food security. Commenting in a statement on Borrell’s article on the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the deal from which Russia pulled out because of export restrictions on its food and fertil...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): War-torn Sudan is at risk of major disease outbreaks, with thousands of unburied corpses remaining out in the open and the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure destroyed, Save the Children warned Tuesday. Residents say Khartoum is littered with dead bodies from fighting between the forces of army chief Abdel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladesh spent an additional $8 billion on the import of fuel and food grains due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, an official said on Tuesday. The South Asian country spent $8.9 billion on the import of petroleum products in the financial year 2021-22, according to the central bank data. The country annually [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken derided Russia on Tuesday for its offer to supply six African nations with free grain, saying the proposal is “laughable.” “What Russia was proposing was to get grain to a half dozen countries, about 50,000 tons,” Blinken said in an interview with British broadcaster...
HIROSHIMA, Japan – The world marks the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Both cities were reduced to rubble in 1945, at the end of World War II. The bombs killed over 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 people […]
