The New Zealanders lost nearly 200 million NZ dollars ($117.3 million) to scammers last year, according to government statistics released on Monday. This is because online financial scams are a growing problem in the country. Considering estimates suggest that only one in five scams are reported. The real losses to New Zealanders are significantly higher, […]
Senegal headed to the polls, on Sunday, to vote in a legislative election that the president hopes will give his party the clear majority it needs to implement an ambitious agenda for reforms. The heated campaign period has revived concerns about unrest as political rivals clashed, sometimes violently. The West African nation saw some of […]
Members of President-elect, Donald Trump’s transition team, are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said. This would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon. The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory and could […]
Armed Israeli settlers launched a wave of attacks on Palestinian properties in several areas of the occupied West Bank overnight, torching homes, vehicles and olive trees. More than 20 vehicles were targeted in the central West Bank city of al-Bireh on Sunday night. Many online described the incident as a “pogrom”, with most set ablaze and left smouldering wrecks. Video footage posted online showed […]
More than 15 million children in Sudan are out of school due to the country’s ongoing conflict, the National Council for Child Welfare said on Tuesday. “We have more than 15 million children out of school,” Abdul Qadir Abdullah Abu, the Council’s Secretary-General, said at a press conference in Port Sudan, the capital of Red […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde President Bola Tinubu on Monday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia called for an end to Israeli aggression in Palestine. TheNewsZenith reports that Tinubu warned that the conflict in Palestine ”has persisted for far too long, inflicting immeasurable suffering”. He was addressing the extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, convened to address the current situation in the […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired his Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, on Tuesday, saying he had no trust in him over the management of Israel’s ongoing military operations, Reuters reports. Netanyahu appointed Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, to succeed Gallant as Defence Minister, while Gideon Saar becomes the new Foreign Minister, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. […]
At least 10 civilians died in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in Gezira State in central Sudan, non-governmental groups announced on Tuesday. “The RSF militia stormed Al-Barorab village east of Gezira State and killed 10 citizens,” said the resistance committee of Wad Madani, the state’s capital city. Meanwhile, […]
Tunisia’s maritime guards found 15 bodies of undocumented immigrants in the eastern coastal province of Mahdia over the weekend, Tunisian Radio Mosaique FM reported on Monday. Among these bodies, eight have shore in Salakta, six in Chebba and one in Melloulech, a report said. The report cited Farid Ben Jha, the spokesperson for the Courts […]
The number of Palestinians killed in the yearlong Israeli war in Gaza has passed 43,000, more than half of them women and children, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday. The tally includes 96 dead who arrived at hospitals in Gaza over the past two days, the ministry said. Israeli troops have launched an ongoing […]