It is estimated that 6,000 new foster families are needed in England to meet the rising demand. Photograph: Catchlight Visual Services/Alamy The Guardian By Robert Booth Child protection experts have called for an urgent nationwide hunt for thousands of new foster carers after a net loss of 1,000 families in the past year and a

By Anadolu Agency The UK will conduct surveillance flights above Israel and Gaza to provide intelligence to Tel Aviv as part of hostage rescue efforts, according to the British Defense Ministry. Surveillance aircraft “will be unarmed, do not have a combat role, and will be tasked solely to locate hostages,” it said in a statement.

By Anadolu Agency At a meeting Friday with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stressed the need to take “all possible measures” to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza, according to his office. At the meeting on the sidelines of a COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the UK premier and the Israeli president

The United Nations Security Council officially lifted the long-standing arms embargo on Somalia, the Somali government described this decision as an important step forward. After many years of Somalia’s efforts to lift the sanctions, the Security Council has finally decided to lift the sanctions, after a vote that took place today. Read: Why is Somalia

By Reuters The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday to remove the final restrictions on weapons deliveries to Somalia’s government and its security forces, diplomats said, more than 30 years after an arms embargo was first imposed on the country. Read: Why is Somalia an unfortunate country? The council put the

An African Union session at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo/AFP By The Citizen The African Union (AU) on Thursday, during the 45th AU Advisory Board Against Corruption (AUABC) meeting held in Arusha, Tanzania, formally adopted the Common Africa Position on Asset Recovery (Capar). Capar is an instrument for recovery of stolen assets from

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline is a 1,443-kilometre heated pipeline that will run from the oilfields in Lake Albert in Northwestern Uganda to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port of Tanga. Photo/Courtesy By AFP A regional court on Wednesday threw out a legal challenge to a multi-billion dollar oil pipeline project in Tanzania and Uganda that

By Reuters The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious belief, such as an Islamic head scarf, in the latest decision on an issue that has divided Europe for years. The case came to the Court of Justice of the European

File Photo Somali Times/Abiy Ahmed LSE By Yohannes Woldemariam Abiy Ahmed is using Eritrea and ownership of the Red Sea to divert attention from the resistance to his rule by paramilitary forces and Ethiopia’s intractable ethnic challenges. With governance over the whole country increasingly tenuous, the prime minister is looking for a unifying narrative to

Kenya’s president William Ruto. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File) By The Associated Press The International Criminal Court prosecutor’s office announced Monday it is halting its long-running investigation into deadly violence that broke out in Kenya after the African nation’s 2007 presidential election. The decision was announced at a time when the prosecutor’s office is appealing for