Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid wait to cross from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern Gaza Strip along Salah Al Din road in the central Gaza Strip, November 25, 2023. Mohammed Saber, EPA-EFE. The United Nations welcomed on Tuesday the increase in aid deliveries into Gaza afforded by a temporary truce but warned it was not […]

More than 20 people have died and over 12,000 others have been forced out of their homes in Ethiopia’s Somali region due to flash flooding triggered by torrential rains, the regional government said Saturday. Bridges and roads have been destroyed by the downpour, making it difficult to reach affected households, the Somali Regional State Communication […]

Guinea’s military junta chief, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara speaks in Conakry on September 30, 2009. – Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was taken out of prison on Saturday morning by a heavily armed commando in an operation that led to heavy exchanges of fire in central Conakry (Photo by Seyllou Diallo / AFP) Former […]

The Managing Director of IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, disclosed on Wednesday, to a Saudi investor forum that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war is adversely affecting the Middle East regionally economies. “You look at the neighbouring countries -Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan – where the channels of impact are already visible,” Georgieva said at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in […]

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses French ambassadors during the conference of ambassadors at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on August 28, 2023. (Photo by Teresa SUAREZ / POOL / AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron said on a solidarity visit to Israel Tuesday that saving hostages held by Hamas in Gaza must be the “first objective” […]

Handout picture dated 2021 and released on October 24, 2023 by the “Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS, German Maritime Search and Rescue Service) shows sea rescue cruiser ship Bernhard Gruben of the DGzRS station in Hooksiel, northern Germany, that is used among others after a collision between two cargo ships in the North Sea, […]

A plume of smoke rises in the sky of Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9, 2023. – Israel relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into October 9 as fighting with Hamas continued around the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from the war against the Palestinian militants surged above 1,100. (Photo […]

Pope Francis pleaded Sunday for an end to the Hamas-Israeli conflict amid fears it could widen, and called for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into to the Gaza Strip. “War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of human fraternity. Brothers, stop! Stop!” Francis said after his traditional Angelus prayer in Rome’s Saint […]

Antonio Guterres (Photo by Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded Saturday for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas, demanding global “action to end this godawful nightmare”. Addressing a peace summit in Cairo as the war raged into its third […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses a high-level event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism via a video link, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Aug. 20, 2021. Guterres on Friday pledged the world body’s support for victims of terrorism. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua) […]