Sun 09 February 2025: Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. Sam Nujoma, the revolutionary leader who guided Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at 95. Hailed as Namibia’s “founding father”, Nujoma passed […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Horn of Africa rose to 20.75 million at the end of 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday in a report released in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The United Nations migration agency said that the figure increased from 20.42 million […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: Saudi Arabia on Sunday strongly condemned the recent statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had called for the displacement of Palestinians to the kingdom. In an official statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry reaffirmed its “categorical rejection” of such rhetoric, emphasizing that “the Palestinian people have a right to their […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: US President Donald Trump said he had held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, discussing efforts to end the Moscow-Kyiv war, according to The New York Post. Speaking to The Post on Friday, Trump declined to specify how many times the two leaders had spoken but insisted that […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: More than 50 people were killed near Mali’s northeastern city of Gao on Friday after armed assailants ambushed their convoy and its army escort, a local official and residents said. The attackers struck near the village of Kobe, around 30 km (19 miles) from Gao in a region where affiliates of […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: The US State Department approved a potential $7.41 billion foreign military sales to Israel, the Pentagon announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. The department okayed a sale of “munitions, guidance kits, fuzes, and munitions support, along with related equipment, for an estimated cost of $6.75 billion,” the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: Iran’s currency, the rial, plunged to a record low of 891,000 per US dollar on Saturday, following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s rejection of talks with Washington the day before. Compared to the same period last year, when the dollar stood at 510,000 rials, the national currency has devalued by 75%. The […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: According to a study conducted by Paris-Saclay University in France, large Saharan dust clouds that covered Europe in March 2022 contained an unexpected component: radioactive traces from nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. The researchers noted that the detected radioactivity levels were well below harmful thresholds for […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on Saturday successfully disconnected from a shared energy system with Russia and Belarus. The BRELL (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) system was created after the dissolution of the Soviet Union to ensure a stable electricity supply to its former parts. As sovereign states, […]
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Sat 08 February 2025: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting US financial assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over its land expropriation law, its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and closer ties with Iran, the White House announced on Friday. “The United States cannot support […]
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