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Nigeria’s Benue crisis: IDPs facing neglect, untold hardship

Ebuka Prince June 21, 2025

Nigeria A youth leader in Nigeria’s Northcentral Benue State, Magagi Alidu, in this interview with journalists, decries the massacre of Benue people and the state of the displaced people in the state. Alidu, who is the President of Ochetoha K’Idoma Youth Wing Worldwide, also spoke on the

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Zambian ex president buried in South Africa

Aaliyah Aamir June 20, 2025

Zambia What was expected to be a dignified farewell to Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has turned into a diplomatic and political standoff, ending with his burial being moved outside the country he once led. Lungu, who died earlier this month in a South African hospital from an undisclosed illness, will not be laid to […]

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Pro-Iran rally holds in Yemen

admin June 20, 2025

Iran Tens of thousands of people in Yemen took to the streets of the country’ capital, Sanaa, on Friday to show solidarity with Iran and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Protesters carried the Iranian and Palestinian flags and chanted against Israel, and the U.S.. The war between Israel and Iran erupted June 13, with Israeli […]

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Nigeria’s North Benue Crisis: Army Chief says Police have made some arrests

Ebuka Prince June 20, 2025

Nigeria Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, said police have arrested a number of people and that actions were being taken, following the killings that took place in northcentral Benue state. Musa disclosed this on Thursday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme. Recall that over 200 residents of Guma LGA […]

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Challenge for Dance4Refugees begins

Howard Mildilton June 20, 2025

Belgin “Wake up, wake up.” That’s the rallying cry at the heart of a powerful new choreography by Belgian dancer Jeny BSG, created for the Dance4Refugees campaign. Speaking to Euronews ahead of World Refugee Day, observed every year on June 20, Jeny described the project as a call to action in support of the world’s […]

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Chinese student who drugged and raped 10 women jailed for life

Chung Fang June 19, 2025

China A Chinese PhD student found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of multiple sexual assaults on women in the UK and China in March, where he used drugs to incapacitate his victims before raping them. The trial at […]

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Hotel Attack: Kenya court sentences two to jail

Saad Huzaifa June 19, 2025

Kenya A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabaab militants in a 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex. In January that year, gunmen shot their way into the Dusit hotel and office complex, killing 21 people in a siege that lasted 19 hours. All five […]

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Iranian human rights lawyer held in prison begs for release

Ethan Asher June 19, 2025

Iran The daughter of a human rights lawyer held in a prison located in an area targeted by Israeli missile strikes has begged for his release. Mehraveh Khandan’s father, Reza Khandan, has been in Evin prison since December, serving a sentence of four years and one month for charges of “assembly and collusion” and “propaganda […]

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GAZA: Surgeons decry amputations, badly burned bomb victims and lack of medicine

Ethan Asher June 19, 2025

Gaza Doctors are a very special category of people. Doctors who opt to work in war zones are an entirely different level of special. They take their skills and medical experience into the most dangerous of environments, knowing they risk their own lives in their mission to save others. Yet they do this regardless. The […]

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Nigeria’s energy coy involves customers in fight against electricity theft

Jude Owuamannam June 19, 2025

Nigeria The fight against electricity thieves took a new turn on Wednesday when Nigeria’s Jos DisCo appealed to customers to join the company in the fight against energy theft. This was discussed during a quarterly meeting tagged:“Customers Consultative Forum, organised by the northcentral Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED), to interact with its teeming