Category: Africa and the rest of the world

People gather at a shelter in a sports center after fleeing from their village affected by Fuego volcano in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla south of Guatemala City, on May 4, 2023. – Guatemalan authorities evacuated more than 1,000 people and closed a road as Central America’s most active volcano erupted May 4, 2023, spewing thick clouds […]

A man wearing a sweater with the representation of a gun on it, stands in front of an undertaker shop in the village of Dubona near the town of Mladenovac, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of Serbia’s capital Belgrade, on May 5, 2023, in the aftermath of a drive-by shooting. – Police arrested a […]

No coronation roles for Harry, Andrew UK deploys 11,000 policemen Leaders of the indigenous peoples of the Commonwealth yesterday signed a letter urging King Charles III of the United Kingdom to apologise for the “horrific impacts” of colonisation. They also urged the king to launch a compensation mechanism for the indigenous peoples of the Commonwealth. […]

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal case asked the prosecution and defense Thursday to agree a specific trial date for February or March next year. The instruction means the historic trial over hush-money paid to a porn star will occur in the thick of the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential race […]

The authorities in Egypt have released a journalist with the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network nearly four years after he was detained, the media outlet said. Hisham Abdelaziz, a producer with the network’s Mubasher channel, was arrested in June 2019 after being stopped while travelling from his Qatar base to Cairo for a family visit. […]

People who fled war-torn Sudan wait at a railway station in the Egyptian city of Aswan on April 28, 2023. – More than 14,000 Sudanese refugees have crossed the border into Egypt since deadly fighting erupted in their country in mid-April, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on April 27. In total, over 16,000 foreigners have […]

Members of the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) position themselves on the Ugandan side of the border town in Bunagana, Democratic Republic of Congo, while awaiting deployment on March 30, 2023. – Democratic Republic of Congo rebels continue to occupy strategic positions in the east of the country l(Photo by Glody Murhabazi / AFP) An […]

Photo: Reuters More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday. “It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation,” Borrell told journalists. Borrell said 21 diplomats from the EU’s mission in Khartoum were taken out and […]

About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country. Landlocked and in the heart of West Africa’s Sahel, the country is one of the world’s most volatile and impoverished. Attacks […]