Russia has unleashed two waves of air attacks on Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing at least one person and wounding another, according to officials. Kyiv’s air defence systems downed at least 40 drones. The drones were moving towards the city on Sunday morning, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Falling debris kill a 41-year-old man and wounding […]
At least five people died and dozens went missing after a boat carrying dozens of people sank in the Savannah Region of Ghana, an official confirmed late Saturday. Bavuk Adams, Savannah Regional Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), told Xinhua the accident happened when the boat heading to Kpandai struck a tree stump […]
Voting starts in Türkiye’s presidential runoff, on Sunday, in which incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his leading contender, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, race for the presidency. The polls opened at 8.00 a.m. (0500 GMT) and will close at 5.00 p.m. (1400 GMT) local time. Unofficial results are expected at roughly 9.00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT). […]
Malta attracted more than 3.7 billion euros ($3.9 billion) in investment last year, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Friday. Addressing a conference launching the National Productivity Report for 2022, Abela said that the economic results were good He added that his government would continue to work on renewed principles, with an economic vision for […]
Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a military base, housing Ugandan forces of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, according to East African country’s contingent and a Somali captain. The rebels attacked the base belonging to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in Bulamarer, 130km (80 miles) southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday. […]
Russia has declared five diplomats working at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow persona non grata in a tit-for-tat-move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday. The ministry summoned the ambassador of Sweden, Malena Mard and notified him that Moscow had decided to expel five Swedish diplomats. These include three employees working at the defence attache office […]
Botswana has submitted a bid to host the 36th Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in 2027 to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), according to a statement issued on Wednesday. After Namibia withdrew from the joint bid due to financial constraints, the bid solidifies Botswana’s commitment to securing the rights to AFCON, said Geoffrey Gare, […]
………latest Russian warning comes after US President Joe Biden agreed to provide training to Ukrainian pilots on fighter jets. The transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine would raise the question of NATO’s involvement in the conflict, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, has said. “There is no infrastructure for the operation of […]
An F-18 multi-use fighter, belonging to the Spanish Air Force, crashed on Saturday at the air force base on the outskirts of Zaragoza city, northeast Spain. The crash caused injury to the pilot’s legs. The accident happened at around 12.10 p.m. local time (1010 GMT), while the pilot was practising manoeuvres ahead of a forthcoming […]
The Ghanaian Government said, on Saturday it decided to further lift COVID-19 restrictions amid declining global and domestic trends for the infection. The West African country has witnessed a sustained decline in COVID-19 infections over the past five months. And based on the global and national situation, it decided to remove the remaining restrictions, the […]