Washington/Mogadishu: – Following Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States has decided to reduce its military deployment even in Somalia. Officials informed that US President Trump has already issued instructions to the defence department in this respect. Currently, there are nearly 700 US soldiers in Somalia and it is said that most will be recalled or […]
Kinshasa: The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that the campaign to control the Ebola epidemic, that began last year in the African Nation, DR Congo, has received a severe setback as the epidemic is spreading more rapidly, in Congo. While there are indications of the situation, about the outbreak, going out of hand, the WHO […]
Kinshasa: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has claimed more than 245 lives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) informed it is the second largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in history. Previously in 2014, the Ebola outbreak had claimed more than 11,000 lives. Peter Salama, a senior WHO official while giving […]
United Nations: A United Nations (UN) report published shocking information of a horrific death toll in the wake of the conflicts taking place in several nations along with Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and South Sudan. Last year, more than 10,000 children lost their lives in the conflicts world over. Apart from this, thousands of children […]
Johannesburg – The ‘BRICS’ organisation of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa may expand in the coming times. About 22 countries have applied for membership in BRICS. At the same time, a senior South African official shared that more than 20 countries have shown keenness to be part of the BRICS. It was already […]
Rome – 22 countries around the world will face the dreaded crisis of food shortage and hunger in the next six months, the top UN agencies have warned. These countries include Haiti in the Caribbean region, along with African and Asian countries. These countries have been referred to as ‘high alert hotspots’ suffering the agony […]
Beijing: China is decisively moving to gain control of Lithium resources around the world which is an important element in the manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. A few days ago, China announced investing more than $2 billion in Argentina, a Latin American country known to be part of the Lithium Triangle. It has been […]
Kampala: The extent of the Ebola epidemic seems to be increasing in the east African country of Uganda. Despite the lockdown imposed in the two districts where the Ebola epidemic started two weeks ago, Ebola cases are being reported from other parts of the country. As per the information given by the Uganda government on […]
Johannesburg/London: Before the Coronavirus crisis, eighty million people in sub-Saharan African countries did not have enough food. But the global inflation caused by the Coronavirus outbreak and the fuel shortage and food crisis caused by the Ukraine conflict have taken a significant toll on sub-Saharan African countries. More than 120 million people here are facing […]
Nairobi: The east African countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic (DR) Congo have decided to come together to build an independent military organisation. The UN Peacekeepers have failed to end the terrorism raging for the last few decades in DR Congo. Therefore, the east African countries concurred that there is […]