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 […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) says Irish Diaspora Engagement should serve as a strategic partnership for Nigeria’s sustained engagement with her diasporans. Chairman/CEO of NiDCOM, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said this when she received Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Peter Ryan in her office in Abuja. This visit is against the backdrop […]
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, on Wednesday, launched a new campaign called “Eliminating mpox” to highlight the potential risk of a significant monkeypox (mpox) outbreak. Eliminating the mpox campaign means “placing affected populations at the heart of our response”. Although mpox is no longer public health emergency of international concern, recent […]
Authorities in Lesotho have declared indefinite curfew with the hope to curtail movement of people at night and help curb gun violence in the small southern African kingdom. The curfew came into force on Tuesday, days after gunmen killed a prominent radio journalist. The killing shocked the nation. “A curfew is imposed on all persons […]