•Sierra Leone President, Julius Maada Bio Sierra Leone’s minister of energy resigned yesterday, according to the president’s office, against a backdrop of recent interruptions to the country’s electricity supply. The reasons for Alhadji Kanja Sesay’s resignation were not officially explained, and the energy ministry did not respond to a reques...
•Britain’s King Charles III British head of state King Charles III will make a limited return to public duties next week after doctors said they were “very encouraged” by the progress of his treatment for cancer. His first engagement with Queen Camilla would be to a cancer treatment centre on Tuesday. The couple will also […]...
•Olubunmi Abodunde and his late wife, Taiwo A United Kingdom-based Nigerian man, Olubunmi Abodunde, has beaten his wife, Taiwo, to death with their son’s skateboard. The couple, who had three children, arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2022 and always clashed over alleged affairs and arguments about bills, reports Daily Mail UK. According to [...
Saudi Arabia could have its first Miss Universe contestant this year, organisers said this week, after a fashion model and influencer claimed she had been selected. The Miss Universe Organisation “is currently undergoing a rigorous vetting process qualifying a potential candidate to be awarded the Saudi Arabia franchise”, Maria Jose Unda, the ...
•Burkina Faso junta Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio networks from broadcasting for a fortnight for airing a rights report accusing the army of attacks on civilians, authorities said. International NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday said soldiers in Burkina Faso’s jihadist-hit north had killed at least 223 vill...
•UK Prime Minister Sunak The UK yesterday joined the United States and Canada in announcing a fresh set of sanctions against Iran’s drone and missile industries after its recent attack on Israel. Tehran launched its first direct military assault on Israeli territory nearly two weeks after an April 1 air strike — widely blamed on […]...
•Heavy rains At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, the country’s prime minister said today. Tanzania and other countries in East Africa — a region highly vulnerable to climate change — have been pounded by heavier than usual rainfall during the current rainy […...
•Vietnamese soft drink boss Tran Qui Thanh (C) being led into a court in Ho Chi Minh City today Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon was jailed for eight years today in a $40 million fraud case — the latest high-profile business figure snared in the country’s sweeping crackdown on corruption. The communist nation’s wide-ranging campaign […]...
•Policemen push away the friends of the abductee Hersh Goldberg-Polin Palestinian militant group Hamas released today a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas atta...
•Smoke rising from the plane crash site outside Fairbanks, Alaska Two people were feared dead after a rare cargo plane crashed in the far north of the United States yesterday, troopers in Alaska said. The Douglas DC-4, one of just a handful left in the world, came down just after leaving Fairbanks International Airport in […]