Morocco’s Ministry of Health and Social Protection reported a confirmed monkeypox (mpox) case in the southern city of Marrakech on Thursday, the official MAP news agency reported. This marks the first reported case in Morocco amid a new global outbreak. According to the ministry, the patient is in stable condition and receiving appropriate medical care. […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde Young African entrepreneurs have asked the African Development Bank (AfDB) to expand its support to female entrepreneurs, young innovators and business creators. Such expansion will reduce poverty and tackle the dearth of jobs in Africa. TheNewsZenith reports that the African youth business representatives were speaking at a panel discussion titled: “Our World, […]
The death toll in Vietnam from Asia’s worst storm, this year, reached 127 on Tuesday, with torrents of rain triggering floods and landslides. It is burying homes, sweeping away a bridge and now threatening the capital Hanoi. Residents waded through knee-high floods in several northern provinces, including the suburbs of Hanoi. Brown water cascaded down […]
Kenya’s Finance Ministry will seek suggestions from the public on new legislation to boost revenue and tackle other challenges, Finance Minister, John Mbadi, said on Monday. This is coming after protesters forced the government to withdraw its financing law. President William Ruto discarded tax hikes worth more than 346 billion shillings ($2.7 billion) in June after […]
Gaza’s Civil Defence says five Palestinians, including two women and a child, died in an Israeli bombardment, on Monday. The bombardment targeted a residential apartment building in the west of Gaza City. Medical sources told Al Jazeera that the death toll from today’s attacks on the Gaza Strip is now 33. Meanwhile, Israeli forces stopped a […]
Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday’s Presidential election on Sunday. But, a rival candidate alleged irregularities in the count and fewer than half of registered voters cast ballots. Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95 per cent of the vote. This is enough to avoid a second-round run-off. Abdelaali Hassani Cherif […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) has announced the successful completion of its flagship Islamic Finance Strategic Mapping Framework (IF-MAP), (formerly IF-CAF) pilot exercise in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The bank announced this in a statement mailed to TheNewsZenith on Sunday. According to the statement, IsDBI conducted this comprehensive assessment in collaboration […]
Algerians headed to the polls on Saturday to elect their next president, with more than 23 million citizens eligible to cast their ballots. Voting began early in the day, with polling stations nationwide opening at 8.00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT). Mobile polling stations have operated since Wednesday to access remote areas, while overseas voting […]
An Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed a group of mud bricks-made military barracks and warehouses from the New Kingdom era (1550 BC-1069 BC). This happened in Beheira governorate in northern Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Thursday. Dr Ahmed Said El-Kharadly of the Supreme Council of Antiquities led the Egyptian archaeological mission. […]
Dozens of families of Israeli hostages, held in the Gaza Strip, gathered in Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square on Thursday, demanding an exchange deal with the Palestinian group, Hamas, Anadolu Agency reports. The demonstrators carried six empty coffins draped in Israeli flags. The coffins symbolised the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the […]