Fri 21 March 2025: Somalia’s president has fired his defence minister reportedly under pressure from the United States, due to the dismissed official having close ties with Turkiye, sources have revealed. On Sunday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed his defence minister Abuldkadir Mohamed Nur, in a reshuffle which saw him reassigned as the country’s […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Sudan’s army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), state TV reported today according to Reuters. The RSF quickly took the palace and most of the capital at the outbreak of war in April 2023, but the Sudanese Armed Forces have […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Police in India’s northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers who have been protesting for over a year for better crop prices. Authorities also used bulldozers to dismantle their makeshift camps. Protest leaders Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were among those detained by the Punjab police in the early hours of Thursday. […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: At least 10,000 people were displaced in February in Mozambique’s violence-hit northern province of Cabo Delgado, a UN agency said Wednesday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report that 93% of those movements of people were found to be due to “attacks or […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Billionaire Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday, “They basically want to kill me, I guess they are bad people,” amid growing controversy over his team’s US government reform work, which Musk said is meant to cut costs but his critics say is reckless destruction with no idea of how government works. The […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt by one in five people worldwide, a new report revealed on Wednesday. The report published by Climate Central, an independent science organization, found that at least 1.8 billion people—22% of the global population—faced temperatures significantly influenced by climate change every day from […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor as part of what they say are investigations into alleged corruption and terror links. Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was arrested on Wednesday morning, with the state-run Anadolu Agency saying prosecutors issued detention warrants for the mayor and roughly 100 […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: The Gaza Strip has officially entered the first phase of famine amid Israeli curbs on the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave, local authorities said on Wednesday. “Gaza has officially entered the first stage of famine, with nearly two million people completely losing their food security,” Ismail Thawabteh, who heads […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore safely splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday after they spent more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Also on board were NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who returned […]
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Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, meet with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha, Qatar Wed 19 March 2025: The three countries call for ‘immediate and unconditional ceasefire’ in eastern DRC. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan […]
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