LEBANON’s Hezbollah vowed on Monday to quickly choose a successor to killed leader Hassan Nasrallah, and continue the Islamist militia’s decades-long fight against Israel. Deputy head Naim Kassem, in a televised speech, said the group would choose a successor for…
AMERICAN rapper and music executive, Sean Combs, aka Diddy, has been reportedly removed from suicide watch. Trojan News recalls that Diddy was reportedly placed on suicide watch in prison after he was arrested on September 16, by Homeland Security on…
THE Israeli military said on Sunday that dozens of fighter jets have carried out airstrikes in Yemen in a large-scale operation aimed at Houthi militants. The air raids targeted energy facilities and an oil dock in the Ras Isa and…
AT least 14 paramedics have been killed in Israeli airstrikes over the past two days, Lebanese officials reported on Sunday. The Israeli military targeted areas near a hospital in the Bekaa Valley in the east, forcing its temporary closure, the…
ALGERIA and Niger discussed key steps to advance the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) project during a visit by Niger’s Petroleum Minister Sahabi Oumarou to Algiers on Sunday. Both nations reaffirmed their commitment to the project and Niger called for a…
ETHIOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has inaugurated the Chinese-built Lemi National Cement Factory, the country’s largest of its kind with a production capacity of 150,000 quintals (15,000 tonnes) per day. Inaugurating the mega cement factory on Saturday, Abiy said…
Mali military-led government has detained four senior Malian employees of Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, according to sources on Friday. The arrests, which reportedly occurred on Wednesday, come amidst growing pressure on international mining operations in the West African country since…
A NEWLY-PUBLISHED memoir by Robert Bourgi has shed light on the clandestine funding of French political campaigns by African leaders, revealing the murky connections that linked Paris to African capitals for decades. Bourgi, once a key figure in the…
DJIBOUTI’S Finance Minister, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, has assured the public that President Ismail Omar Guelleh is in good health, dismissing recent rumours suggesting otherwise. Over the weekend, unconfirmed reports claimed that President Guelleh had been flown to Paris for…
RUSSIA has destroyed no fewer than 125 Ukrainian drones over its territory. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry revealed this on Sunday, with regional governors reporting some damage but no casualties from the attack. In a post on its Telegram, the ministry…
