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Biden defends U.S. withdrawal as Evacuation flights Continue at Kabul airport

Ihesiulo Grace 17 August 2021 0

Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan resumed early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital. The number of civilians at the airport had thinned out, a Western security

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Taliban in Afghan capital Kabul begin retrieving weapons from civilians

Ihesiulo Grace 16 August 2021 0

Taliban fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, began collecting weapons from civilians on Monday, citing the fact that people no longer require them for personal protection, according to a Taliban official. “We understand that people keep weapons for their own protection. They can now rest assured. We are not here to cause harm to civilians “According

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Zambia: Opposition leader Hichilema wins landslide in presidential election

Ihesiulo Grace 16 August 2021 0

In Zambia’s presidential election, opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema won by a landslide over incumbent Edgar Lungu, according to results released on Monday. With all but one of the 156 seats counted, Hichilema received 2,810,777 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201, according to the electoral commission. “I therefore declare that the said Hichilema to be

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Afghan president Ghani says he left country in order to avoid bloodshed

Ihesiulo Grace 15 August 2021 0

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday he left the country in order to avoid bloodshed, as the Taliban entered the presidential palace in Kabul. Ghani left in order to avoid clashes with the Taliban that would endanger millions of Kabul residents, he said in a Facebook post – his first comments since leaving the […]

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Taliban enter Afghan capital, president and diplomats flee

Ihesiulo Grace 15 August 2021 0

Taliban insurgents entered Kabul on Sunday and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a U.S.-led invasion. As night fell, local television 1TV reported that multiple explosions were heard in the city, which had […]

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Six people killed in mass shooting in Plymouth, England

Ihesiulo Grace 13 August 2021 0

Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as “shocking”. Two females and three males, including the suspect, died from gunshot wounds at the scene of the incident, the Devon and Cornwall […]

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Taliban capture Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Herat; as US, UK embassies getting staff out

Ihesiulo Grace 13 August 2021 0

Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on Afghanistan on Friday, wresting control of its second and third biggest cities while Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff from the capital, Kabul. The capture of the second-biggest city of Kandahar in the south and Herat in the west after days of clashes are […]

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Honourable Justices of the Constitutional Court

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

The statement of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the Cape Verde Constitutional Court. Today, the diplomat’s battle against extradition has reached the Supreme Court. It further reads i had hoped that finally I would have my day in court and have the opportunity to express in my own voice, in my own words the inhumanity […]

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At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

Exhausted Greek firefighters battled blazes for a ninth day on Wednesday amid sweltering temperatures that also helped stoke wildfires in Algeria, where at least 65 people died, and in southern Italy. From Turkey to Tunisia, countries around the Mediterranean have been seeing some of their highest temperatures in decades, as the United Nations climate panel […]

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Madagascar president sacks ministers, saying some were poor performers

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has sacked all his ministers, his office said. The sacking of the ministers is coming days after he criticised some of their performances, saying they were below par, and weeks after officials said they had thwarted a plot to kill the former coup leader. Rajoelina’s office gave no reason for the […]

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N.Korean envoy calls for collaboration with Russia to counter United States

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

Pyongyang’s ambassador to Russia told TASS news agency that North Korea plans to strengthen cooperation with Russia to counter the US, and that peace on the Korean peninsula will not be feasible until American forces are evacuated. Ambassador Sin Hong-remarks chol’s came after senior North Korean leaders warned this week that going through with annual […]