Tensions escalate in North Africa, with Egypt seeking the intervention of UNSC against Ethiopia on river water sharing issue Tensions have escalated in the Eastern Nile region, with Egypt taking a complaint to the UN Security Council (UNSC) against Ethiopia’s plan to fill a $5billion hydro dam. The move has riled a cross-section of people

This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Mohammed Alshamrani. The Saudi student opened fire inside a classroom at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday before one of the deputies killed him. The FBI has found a link between the gunman in a deadly attack at a military base last December and an al-Qaida operative.

Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif has warned the United Nations that there will be “consequences” if the US acted against the Iranian oil tankers in the Caribbean. In a letter sent to the UN chief, Antonio Guterres, Zarif said American “piracy” has threatened the “disruption of Iran’s fuel transmission to Venezuela”, adding that the

Du Wei speaks during a news briefing in Kiev, Ukraine August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo JERUSALEM (Reuters) – China’s ambassador to Israel was found dead in his home in a Tel Aviv suburb on Sunday, an Israeli police spokesman said. He did not comment on the cause of death of ambassador Du Wei, who

Army spokesman says Russian-made air defense system, Chinese-made armed drones were destroyed, The Libyan army shot down Sunday another air defense system and a drone of renegade commander Khalifa Haftar southwest of the capital. Libyan military spokesman Col. Mohamed Qanunu said in a statement that airstrikes were carried out against Haftar militias at the Al-Watiya

Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul was arrested by Saudi forces in 2018 [Wikipedia] Marking two years of the detention of prominent female human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia, on Friday, Amnesty International called on King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to release them. In a report published on its website, Amnesty International announced that the female human rights

Photo: Credit UN PARIS (Reuters) – Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, who is accused of funding militias that massacred about 800,000 people, was arrested on Saturday near Paris after 25 years on the run, the French justice ministry said. The 84-year-old, who is Rwanda’s most-wanted man and had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his

Photo: Credit Reuters Silvia Romano, the 24-year-old Italian aid worker who worked as a volunteer at Milele Africa before she was kidnapped by al Shabaab associates at Chakama area of Malindi in 2018 is a clear victim of the duplicity and injustice of the Somalia-based terror organisation. , and lately freed from the terror group

President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) and his Somalia counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo follow proceedings during Kenya’s 16th annual National Prayer Breakfast at Safari Park hotel in Nairobi 31, 2018.Facebook The Kenyan government is reported to have reached out to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to request an extension to the date of the hearing of

A group of Western mercenaries linked with companies based in the United Arab Emirates has been revealed to have been briefly deployed to Libya to fight alongside the rival Libyan National Army (LNA) forces, according to a confidential report by the United Nations accessed by Bloomberg. The team of around 20 mercenaries, led by a