30 people have been killed in fighting between government troops and the Codeco militia in the eastern province of Ituri , the army in the Democratic Republic of Congo says. The military said 11 civilians, two soldiers and a policeman were killed. Sixteen militiamen died in an army counter-offensive. Codeco, …
Read More »COVID-19: Brazil exceeds 90,000 reported cases in 24 hours
Brazil recorded this Wednesday 90,303 new cases of Covid-19 contamination in 24 hours, a record, as well as 2,648 new deaths, bringing the daily average over the last seven days to 2017, the highest since the start of the pandemic. With these two new records, this country of 212 million …
Read More »US plans to share doses of AstraZeneca vaccine with Mexico and Canada
The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, Reuters reports. According to officials, Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine and Canada will receive 1.5 million …
Read More »Spain becomes 4th European country to legalize euthanasia
Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering. Different countries have different euthanasia laws. This Thursday, the Spanish Parliament definitively approved the legalization of euthanasia. Read also: ‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer …
Read More »‘It takes one to know one’ Putin retorts after Biden says he thinks he is a killer
President Vladimir Putin retorted on Thursday that it takes one to know one after U.S. President Joe Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and already poor relations between Moscow and Washington sank to a new post-Cold War low. Putin was speaking on television after Biden, in …
Read More »Presidents of East African countries mourn the late John Magufuli
East Africa countries leaders were not indifferent when they learnt the death of their Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli from heart problem. After Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Yoweri Museveni and Bobi Wine, it is the turn of Paul Kagame, Lazarus Chakwera, and Evariste Ndayishimiye to pay a vibrant tribute to the …
Read More »Russian ambassador will leave Washington on Saturday
Ambassador Anatoly Antonov will visit Moscow for consultations on the future of the Russian-American relationship, after Joe Biden claimed that Vladimir Putin was “a killer”. “During meetings at the Russian Foreign Ministry and with other bodies, it will be a question of means of correcting the Russian-American relationship in crisis,” …
Read More »Yoweri Museveni pays homage to the “great pragmatic African son” John Magufuli
President Yoweri Museveni, a strong advocate of a unified East African states establishment has mourned the second death of a reigning president in the region within less than a year. “I have, with great sadness, learnt of the death of His Excellency John Pombe Magufuli. We join Tanzania in mourning …
Read More »South African President Cyril Ramaphosa mourns John Magufuli
Cyril Ramaphosa the South African President has expressed his “deep sadness” following the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli. On his Twitter account, President Ramaphosa said he had spoken to Tanzanian Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan “to express condolences in his personal capacity and on behalf of all South Africans”. Read …
Read More »Kenyan politicians mourns Tanzanian president John Magufuli
Many are the African and world politicians to expressed their condelences to the Tanzanian people after the death of their president john Magufuli. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has mourned the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli and said “he’s been by my side at my most difficult and painful …
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