(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN sounded a dire warning on Friday, saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could trigger a wave of refugees in neighbouring countries and that thousands had already made the journey. The UN Refugee Agency in Geneva said that if the war continues to escalate, then it expects up to four million people […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW) a United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crisis has called for the protection of children and adolescents, schools and school personnel in the ongoing crisis between Ukraine and Russia. ECW supports quality education outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and other crisis-affected girls and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “chose this war” and his country would bear the consequences. The sanctions target Russian banks, oligarchs and high-tech sectors, Biden said. The United States and its allies will block assets […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Seventeen high-rises in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been damaged by shelling, according to the city administration. All the buildings affected were in the east of the city, closer to the front line of fighting with pro-Russian separatists, authorities said. Electricity supplies were partially disrupted, the city said late Thursday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reno Omokri, a former presidential spokesman, has blamed the United States President, Joe Biden for the cause of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Omokri stated that President Putin of Russia took advantage of Biden’s weakness in Afghanistan to invade Ukraine. According to him, Putin smelled Biden’s weakness. Taking to his Twitter account, Omokri […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Embassy in Ukraine has urged citizens in the country to remain calm and be responsible for their own personal security. It advised those who want to relocate to a safe place to ensure that they validate all their resident documents for ease of return to Ukraine when they desire. This […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, announced the shutdown of its embassy in Kiev over concerns of insecurity amid hostilities in Ukraine. “The embassy in Kiev is temporarily closed for security reasons. There are reports of explosions and rocket attacks in northern, eastern and southern Ukraine. “The airspace is closed,” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine and landed troops on its coast on Thursday, officials and media said, after President Vladimir Putin authorised what he called a special military operation in the east. Shortly after Putin spoke in a televised address on Russian state TV, explosions could be heard […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Secretary-General António Guterres, on Wednesday, strongly condemned the arrest of four members of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), who were arrested in the capital, Bangui. UN Spokesperson, Mr Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement, said the secretary-general called for their release. Local gendarmerie arrested the personnel on Monday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden, on Tuesday announced first tranche of sanctions on Russia, following its decision to recognise the independence of certain areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Biden, in a speech from the White House, said the Russian leader had committed “a flagrant violation of international law.” According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain will immediately impose hard economic sanctions on Russia after President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this on Tuesday. “We will immediately institute a package of economic sanctions,’’ Johnson told reporters. “This is, I should stress, just the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN envoy, Helen La Lime, says Haiti remains in “acute political and institutional crisis’’ despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crises in the country. Lime, head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), told the Security Council on Friday that the crisis Haiti had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed. Mohammed was speaking at an international event hosted by the Haitian government in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. The event is aimed at supporting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organsiation (WHO) says progress in the overall survival rate for children with cancer is uneven across Europe, with a significant proportion of the thousands diagnosed with cancer each year still dying. The new WHO report sets out for the first time the scale of childhood cancer inequalities in the European […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organizations at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The President’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to Shehu, the Summit […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Japan is evacuating almost all of its embassy staff from Ukraine and also calling on its nationals in the country to leave immediately, according to Japan’s Foreign Ministry. The Japanese Embassy in Kiev will only offer limited services after the evacuation of the diplomatic staff, the ministry said. On Friday, the Japanese […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkish President Recep Erdogan announced on Monday that heavy penalties will be imposed on those who do not comply with the government’s new economic measures to curb the skyrocketing prices. Erdogan said this to reporters in Istanbul before departing for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “With the inspection teams we have established, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany on Saturday advised German citizens without an “imperative” reason to stay in Ukraine to leave, saying a “military conflict cannot be excluded” after Washington warned a Russian invasion could begin “any day”. “Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have again shot up in the last few days due to the massive movements […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN human rights experts on Friday decried the ‘appalling’ culture of impunity around killing of journalists, especially in Bangladesh, demanding justice for two journalists who were killed in the country 10 years ago. “Authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Brazilian police have arrested a man they believe hacked into Neymar’s bank accounts and repeatedly stole small sums of money totaling more than 40,000 dollars, officials in Sao Paulo said. Police said the alleged hacker worked at an unnamed bank where the Paris St-Germain (PSG) and Brazil player and his business manager […]
