KENYAN domestic worker Eulita Jerop is among many who are desperate to leave Lebanon as the threat of an escalating conflict looms large over the country. Employed as a domestic worker on the outskirts of Beirut for the past 14…
Putin RUSSIAN inmates on Friday took staff hostage at a prison colony in the southern Volgograd region during attacks that officials said left four workers hospitalised. The siege comes two months after Islamic State group-tied prisoners took guards hostage in…
FIVE people, including a child, were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, state-run media said. Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli drone struck a house in the town of Aita al-Jabal with two guided missiles,…
Xi Jinping of China will attend the 2024 summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Hua Chunying, Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of China, who said this in a statement on Wednesday, said the forum would be held in…
A Russian ferry loaded with fuel has been sunk by a Ukrainian attack, the Telegraph reports. According to the report, the vessel was carrying 30 fuel tanks in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar when the fire broke…
LUCARA Diamond Corp, a Canadian mining company, announced the discovery of a colossal 2,492 carat diamond at its Karowe mine in Botswana, marking one of the largest diamonds ever unearthed. The company did not specify the gem quality of the…
AFRICA is ideally positioned to become the next century’s economic growth engine, driven by a combination of favuorable demographics, abundant natural resources, and rapid technological adoption. With the youngest population globally, a burgeoning middle class, and significant natural resources, the continent is set…
THE Zimbabwean government announced on Tuesday that it has renewed its ban on alluvial and riverbed mining in an effort to curb ongoing environmental degradation. Although the ban was initially imposed in 2020, illegal mining activities have persisted, leading…
EXTENSIVE flooding in eastern Bangladesh has left 2 people dead and nearly three million people stranded, the government reported on Thursday. Heavy rains and water surges from upstream hilly areas caused local rivers to burst their banks, leading to widespread…
Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday said that they arrested seven people in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants in the U.S. state of Texas in 2022. Guatemala’s Ministry of the Interior said that the leader of the gang Los Orozco,…
