ACROSS Africa, French flags are burned, military bases shut down overnight, and defence agreements terminated. France, once a dominant power on the continent, faces an unprecedented decline in influence. Senegal and Chad’s recent decisions to sever military ties with Paris epitomise a wider rejection…
KEMI Badenoch, the Nigeria-raised leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, has found herself at the centre of a heated debate after Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, condemned her remarks about the country. Badenoch, who has often criticised Nigeria for corruption and security…
UNITED Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is set to visit South Africa, marking a significant moment in global diplomacy. South Africa, the first African nation to chair the influential G20 economic bloc, assumed its one-year presidency on December 1. The visit underscores…
WEST Africa, home to some of the world’s richest mineral reserves, is undergoing a seismic shift in its mining sector. The recent actions of military governments in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are upending traditional mining dynamics, unsettling Western companies,…
AN 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone has been rescued as the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean. After three harrowing days at sea, she was found clinging to tyre tubes near Italy’s Lampedusa island, a major migration…
An Israeli air strike targeting a residential building in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, on Monday evening wiped out two entire families from the Al-Kahlout household, comprising 25 individuals. This strike and others early on Tuesday killed at least 34 Palestinians and left many others…
A report released on Wednesday by the United Nations agency reported a 25 per cent increase in detected human trafficking victims globally in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, published…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the disbursement of 10 million dollars to Somalia to boost the country’s economic reforms. IMF in a statement said that the latest funding “brings Somalia’s total disbursement under the current programme, originally…
UGANDAN Police spokesperson on Wednesday said the country is strengthening security ahead of the festive season. Uganda Police Force spokesman Kituuma Rusoke said in a statement that the joint security personnel, both armed and unarmed, have been deployed to…
THE late Queen Elizabeth believed every Israeli was “either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist” and refused to allow Israeli officials into Buckingham Palace, former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin has said. “The relationship between us [Israel] and…
