(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The IMF’s executive board approved a $1.1 billion payout for Ukraine on Friday, which it says will be used to provide budget support to the war-torn country. The loan disbursal is the latest tranche of funding the International Monetary Fund has released to Ukraine as part of an ongoing 4-year, $15.5 billion […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky jointly responsible for Russia’s attack against Ukraine. “He should never have let that war start,” Trump told the YouTuber Patrick Bet-David in a podcast that lasted almost an hour and a half. Russia launched an unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pope Francis received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a private meeting at the Vatican on Friday in talks that focused mainly on the return of prisoners. Zelensky asked the pope for support for children and adults imprisoned by Russia, the president said in a post on Telegram. He then met with Cardinal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 370 million girls and women have been raped or sexually assaulted worldwide before the age of 18, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Thursday. The figures came as UNICEF published its first global estimate on sexualised violence against children ahead of the International Day of the Girl on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hurricane Milton exploded in strength Monday to become a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm bound for Florida, threatening the US state with a second ferocious hurricane in as many weeks. The back-to-back hurricanes have whipped up a US election storm, with Vice President Kamala Harris slamming her White House rival Donald Trump […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alejandro Arcos, mayor of the city of Chilpancingo in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, was assassinated just six days after taking office, local authorities said. “His loss has left all of Guerrero society in mourning and fills us with indignation,” Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on social media X. Arcos […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children, the UN migration office, IOM has said. New data from the International Organisation for Migration, on Wednesday indicates a 22 per cent spike in the number of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel said Sunday it killed another senior Hezbollah official in an air strike on the Lebanese capital after dealing the Iran-backed group a seismic blow by assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel announced the killing of Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah’s central council in a strike Saturday, adding that its air […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 20 people died after Hurricane Helene slammed into the south-eastern United States as a dangerous Category 4 storm, before weakening to a tropical depression by Friday afternoon. The deaths were reported in US media across the states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The governor of Georgia said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he expected his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend a BRICS summit in Russia next month, after Turkey requested to join the group of emerging economies. Putin said he was due to meet Erdogan on October 23, a day after the start of the summit […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World leaders on Tuesday sounded the alarm over fears of a wider war after Lebanon suffered its deadliest day in two decades in Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds. After nearly a year of cross-border fire since the Gaza war erupted, Israeli bombardment on Monday killed 558 people in Lebanon, including 50 […]
Pope Francis returned to Rome on Friday after a 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific, defying health concerns to connect with believers from the jungle of Papua New Guinea to the skyscrapers of Singapore. The papal plane carrying the 87-year-old pontiff touched down in Rome shortly before 7:00 pm local time (17:00 GMT) — bringing to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany and Kenya are set to sign a migration agreement on Friday during a visit by Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto to Berlin. The deal is intended to promote the recruitment of skilled labour from Kenya and facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans without the right to stay in Germany back to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Algeria’s incumbent President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has been re-elected with almost 95 per cent of the vote, the country’s electoral authority ANIE said Sunday. “Out of 5,630,000 voters recorded, 5,320,000 voted for the independent candidate Abdelmadjid Tebboune, accounting for 94.65 per cent of the vote,” ANIE head Mohamed Charfi told reporters in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – About 200 migrants tried to leave French shores for the United Kingdom on Wednesday, the day after 12 people died trying to make the journey. Angele Vettorello, a Calais charity worker and Co-ordinator at Utopia 56 made the disclosure. She said: “The crossing, it is not going to stop. “This morning, we […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Beijing, China, for a five-day official state visit. A statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, said he arrived in China at about 9.00 a.m. local time on Sunday and was received by key officials of the Chinese government. Tinubu was also welcomed by governors Babajide Sanwoolu, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, has opened up on the consequences of re-electing Donald Trump back to the oval office in the upcoming election. Harris, while speaking Late Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), reminded the audience of the “chaos and calamity” her Republican rival oversaw during his stay in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death from an Israeli airstrike on an area in southern Lebanon has risen to 10, among them two children, the Lebanese Health Ministry and state-media said on Saturday. Those killed were mostly Syrian nationals, the ministry said. The National News Agency said the raid hit a brick mill at the outskirts […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s annual inflation rate rose in July for the first time this year and is now back above the Bank of England’s target, official data showed on Wednesday. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) climbed 2.2 per cent in the 12 months to July compared with a 2.0 per cent annual gain in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Joe Biden, in his first TV interview since dropping out of the White House race, warned that Republican candidate Donald Trump was “a genuine danger to American security.” “Mark my words, if he wins… this election, watch what happens,” Biden told CBS News in a pre-taped interview broadcast on Sunday. “He’s […]
