Fri 26 April 2024: French authorities have been conducting evictions of migrants and refugees from areas in the capital Paris, apparently in preparation for the country’s hosting of the Olympic Games in three months. In recent weeks, police and gendarmes in Paris have been seen entering and clearing makeshift camps located throughout the city, such […]
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Former SA President Nelson Mandela’s grandson joined the Freedom Flotilla, which is set to sail to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Fri 26 April 2024: Organisers say the initiative aims to challenge Israel’s 17-year-old blockade and put an end to the ongoing ‘genocide’. A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: A slight majority of Americans (53 percent) have little or no confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs, including 25% who have no confidence in him at all, according to a Pew Research Center survey. This compared to 21% of Americans who said they have […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and “widespread death” from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report […]
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CCTV footage shows group of girls stealing croissants in East Sussex on 18 July, 2022 Fri 26 April 2024: There is currently an alarming rise in criminal activity in the United Kingdom, including record-breaking rates of shoplifting and property and a commercial robberies. The UK saw a record high of nearly 1,200 shoplifting incidents each […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: El Nino-related torrential rains in Tanzania have caused landslides and flooding that have claimed at least 155 lives, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday. During the current rainy season, Tanzania and other East African nations—which are particularly sensitive to climate change—have been battered by more rain than usual. Dozens of deaths […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Over 100 prisoners have escaped from a jail in Nigeria that is close to the capital city of Abuja after heavy rains overnight damaged some of the building. According to prisons spokesman Adamu Duza, the several-hour-long downpour on Wednesday night damaged the medium-security prison’s perimeter fence in the town of Suleja, […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: Mass graves found in two hospitals in the Gaza Strip containing 392 bodies, including those of women, children and the elderly, showed signs of torture and executions, officials in the enclave have said. On the sixth consecutive day of digging up bodies in southern Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defence officials on Thursday revealed horrifying […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: World Malaria Day is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. It was instituted by WHO Member States during the World Health Assembly of 2007. This year the theme for World Malaria Day is “Accelerating the fight against malaria for a […]
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Thu 25 April 2024: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated in a new study that 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, were “summarily executed” by Burkina Faso’s military forces in two villages in February. According to the investigation released on Thursday, the mass murders occurred in the northern villages of Nondin and Soro on […]
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