Month July 2024

Senegal’s President Faye To Renegotiate Mining Contracts

SENEGAL’S recently elected president, Bassirou Dioumaye Faye, has vowed to renegotiate mining, gas, and oil contracts signed with foreign companies to ensure environmental compliance and local benefits. At a high-level summit in Paris last week, his mining minister detailed how…

Witchcraft Claims Mask Deadly Land Grabs In Kenya’s Kilifi Coast

  AN investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered a disturbing trend of elderly individuals being accused of witchcraft and murdered along Kenya’s Kilifi coast. These accusations often hide a darker motive—land grabs by relatives and community members. Seventy-four-year-old Tambala Jefwa bears…

Don’t be Deceived: Life is a Bed of Roses

Frequently, many assert that life is not a bed of roses, yet in truth, it truly is. The commonly held notion equating roses with ease overlooks the presence of thorns in every rose, mirroring life’s complexities. Life, like a rose,…

Titanic and Avatar Producer, Jon Landau dies At 63

Jon Landau – the Oscar-winning producer of some of the world’s highest-grossing movies of all time, including Titanic and Avatar – has died, aged 63. Landau, who was the long-time producing partner of filmmaker James Cameron, reportedly died on Friday…

Poland, Ukraine Sign Security Accord Ahead Of NATO Summit

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signed a bilateral security agreement in Warsaw on Monday, a day before the start of a NATO summit in Washington. “Those who defend Ukraine today are also defending themselves,” said…

Iraq Retrieves 181 Smuggled Antiquities

Iraq’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities had announced on Monday that the successful repatriation of 181 smuggled artefacts from the U.S. and other countries. The recovered items included a bronze figurine and eight metal boxes containing ancient skeletons, the…

10 Things To Know About The Samoa Agreement

THE controversial Samoa Agreement has become a topic of discussion for many Nigerians as they wonder what it entails since the news that Nigeria has signed. On November 15, 2023, the European Union and member states came together to sign…

Macron Rejects PM Attal’s Resignation, Asks him to stay

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron is refusing to accept Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s resignation following the surprising outcome of the snap parliamentary elections in France, the Élysée Palace annnounced on Monday. Macron has asked Attal to remain prime minister for the…