Angolan plans to create tax incentives to attract more investors to its diamond-cutting sector, Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, Diamantino Azevedo, announced on Saturday. Azevedo made the announcement at the inauguration of the fifth diamond-cutting factory at Saurimo Diamond Development Park in Lunda Sul province. He said the incentives aim to promote competitiveness, create […]
Three policemen died and two others sustain injuries on Saturday in a fierce gunfight with Naxals in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, the Police said. The gunfight broke out between the Naxals and a contingent of the police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) at Jagargunda area in Sukma district, about 515 km south of Raipur, […]
The President of Peru, Dina Boluarte has recalled the Peruvian ambassador to Mexico, following criticism from Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. She also reduced the level of Peru’s relations with that country. “The Government of Peru has ordered the definitive withdrawal of its ambassador in the United Mexican States. “Thus, diplomatic relations between Peru […]
Explosions rocked Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, an international athletic competition, which kicked off in the country’s restive Anglophone region of Southwest, on Saturday, according to the Police and eyewitness. The blasts went off in three locations just a few minutes after the race began in Buea, the chief town of the region, the local […]
Ukrainians honoured their dead and vowed to keep fighting, on Friday, as Russia told the world to accept “the realities” of its war. Moscow faces new Western sanctions on the one-year invasion’s anniversary. At a ceremony in Kyiv’s St Sophia Square, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy bestowed medals on soldiers and the mother of one killed, fighting […]
The South African Police Service (SAPS), on Friday, said that they have seized 380 kilogrammes of cocaine at the Durban Harbour. “A multidisciplinary team led by the SAPS Organised Crime Investigations unit acted on intelligence-driven information that a vessel that was coming into the country from South America on Thursday,” the SAPS said in a […]
Four school pupils are reportedly missing after their boat capsized in a crocodile and hippo-infested river in Tanzania’s western region of Kigoma, an official said on Friday. Salum Kali, the Kigoma District Commissioner, said the pupils were crossing over to a primary school on the other side of the Luiche River when it capsized at […]
Over 3,000 Afghan refugees returned from neighbouring Iran over the past couple of days, said the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation Affairs on Thursday. According to a statement by the ministry, the recently returned refugees totalled 3,541 and the refugee repatriation is still going on. More than 270,000 Afghan refugees have returned from Iran […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied, on Wednesday, dismissed Nasreddine Nsibi, the Minister of Employment and Training, according to a statement issued by the Presidency. This is the third minister the Tunisian president has dismissed in two months. The statement did not specify the reason for the dismissal. Read Related News: UNECA urges focus on value-addition in […]
Somali National Army (SNA) said its forces backed by both local and international forces killed 42 al-Shabab militants in an operation carried out in Mahaday district, southern Somalia. The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism announced this in a statement issued in Mogadishu, on Tuesday. The ministry stated that the forces killed 27 of the […]