Diasporas

The director of the American development assistance agency, Samantha Power, pledged more than a billion dollars on Monday to try to avoid famine in the Horn of Africa, calling on other countries, in particular China , to do more to combat the food crisis deepened by the Russian invasion of …

Ellen Thorburn, the Chargé d’Affaires at the US Embassy in Chad, urged the Transitional Military Council (CMT) to “keep up on its commitments” not to stand in the next elections. Mrs. Thorburn spoke on the occasion of the celebration of the accession of her country to independence. After her, it …

An 80-year-old woman died in the United States after being attacked by two alligators, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The victim, whose name has not been released by the authorities, fell around 8 p.m. on Friday in a pond near a golf course and near his home, said …

A 25-year-old African-American, killed by police in late June after fleeing a traffic violation in a northern US city, was hit by 46 bullets, according to the results of a autopsy published on Friday. His death, and the publication of a video of the police intervention, had provoked several days …

Former American president Donald Trump announced on his social network Truth Social, the death of his first wife, Ivana Trump at the age of 73. “I am very sad to inform everyone who loved her, and there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of a “special court” to try “the crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine”. It comes as Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in a town in central Ukraine. This request took place during a videoconference intervention during an organized by the …

The United States Medicines Agency on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults 18 and older, providing an additional option for getting vaccinated in the United States, in hopes of helping to convince the reluctant. The vaccine produced by this American company is already available in dozens of other countries. …

Sri Lanka, in the grip of a serious economic and political crisis, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the PM’s office announced. “As the president left the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,” …

A French court sentenced Laurent Bucyibaruta, the man who planned one of the bloodiest episodes of the Rwandan genocide, to 20 years in prison. Laurent Bucyibaruta is the highest-ranking Rwandan to have faced trial in France over the 1994 massacres, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. …

Perrigo laboratory announced on Monday that it asked authorities to approve the first contraceptive pill available without a prescription in the United States, few weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke the right to abortion in the country. The launch of the regulatory process shortly after the Supreme Court’s …