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Coup: Mali’s Military Detains President, Prime Minister, Defence Minister as UN Kicks

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2021 0

Mali’s military has detained the President, prime minister and defense minister of the Interim government. The United Nations’ mission in Mali on Monday called for the President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Mocter Quane’s “immediate and unconditional release”. The MINUSMA

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Countries need to foster synergy in restoring biodiversity

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2021 0

May 22 marked this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity. Themed “We’re part of the solution,” it called on the international society to work in solidarity and contribute wisdom and efforts to biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity provides the very basis for the human race to survive and thrive, and serves as the root and lifeblood for

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Chinese commercial drones favored by South African farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 22 May 2021 0

A South African drone company recently launched a test for an agricultural sprayer drone in a farm in Clanwilliam area of the Western Cape province. A black hexacopter drone carrying a white bucket sprayed pesticides around 10 meters above the ground.After finishing a series of moves, including hovering, turning and intermittent spraying, the drone gently […]

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Ex-French President Sarkozy On Trial Over Campaign Financing

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, went on trial on Thursday over allegations of illegal funding for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just weeks after the rightwing heavyweight was convicted in a landmark corruption case. Sarkozy, 66, became France’s first postwar president to be sentenced to prison in March when judges handed him a three-year […]

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Turkey detains 18 foreign IS suspects in Istanbul

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

Turkish police on Thursday launched simultaneous operations against suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul, and detained at least 18 foreign nationals, local media reported. The Istanbul Police Department’s Counter-Terrorism Unit teams went all out to raid about 20 homes across the city to capture the suspects, who were allegedly

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Renewed violence over Gaza despite ceasefire moves gaining momentum

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

Diplomatic moves towards a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gathered pace on Thursday after U.S. President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation, but Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza and Hamas rocket fire resumed after a pause. A senior official in the Hamas militant group predicted a ceasefire within days. An Israeli minister said […]

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German FM arrives in Israel for talks on Gaza conflict

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, has begun a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories to gauge what the international community can do to promote a ceasefire. The minister’s visit on Thursday comes 10 days after Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip began a new round of conflict. After landing at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion […]

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U.S., Russia hold talks on normalising relations

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, discussed normalising bilateral relations as they met in person for the first time on Wednesday in Iceland, reports said on Thursday. Blinken said the U.S. seeks “a predictable, stable relationship with Russia” in comments ahead of the meeting, according to a State Department […]

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World’s largest iceberg breaks off in Antarctica

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

An enormous iceberg has broken away from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, reports on Thursday said. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the iceberg, known as A-76, measuring around 4,320 square kilometres in size, is currently the largest in the world. The iceberg was spotted in recent […]

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Japan expands COVID-19 emergency state to 3 more prefecture

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2021 0

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday announced an expansion of a state of emergency over COVID-19 to Hokkaido, Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures. The government has previously extended the state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto until the end of May while expanding it in Aichi and Fukuoka prefectures. The emergency state was […]

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Israel intensifies attacks on Gaza, army says troops on ground

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2021 0

Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza late Thursday, as the country’s military said its troops were on the ground. According to an army spokesman, seven people have been killed by shelling in Israel so far. In Gaza, more than 100 people have died, according to the Health Ministry there. “I said Hamas will pay a […]

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Ukrainian experts say nuclear process at Chernobyl NPP under control

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2021 0

The fission reactions in uranium fuel masses of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), reported earlier by foreign and local media, pose no danger. The possibility of a disaster was minimal, Ukraine’s State Scientific and Technical Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety reported Thursday. According to the experts of the centre, the New Safe Confinement […]

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China’s population reaches 1.41178 Billion

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2021 0

As of Nov. 1, 2020, China’s population on the mainland reached 1,411.78 million, 72.06 million persons, or 5.38 percent, more than the country’s population of 1,339.72 million in 2010, according to results of the country’s seventh national census released on May 11. The average annual growth rate of the population on the Chinese mainland over […]

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Vaccine inequity poses ‘significant risk’ to global economic recovery – UN report

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2021 0

The UN says vaccine inequality between countries and regions is posing a significant risk to an already uneven and fragile global economic recovery. The UN economic forecast, published on Tuesday, stated that while the outlook for global growth has improved, the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, as well as inadequate progress on vaccination in poorer […]

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EU mulls €210m humanitarian aid for Sahel and Central Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2021 0

The European Union (EU) says it is committed to assisting vulnerable people in countries in the Sahel and Central Africa with a humanitarian aid of 210 million euros in 2021. The EU made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Modestus Chukwulaka, the spokesman for the EU Delegation to Nigeria and […]

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Expressway construction reveals China’s rapid development

Ihesiulo Grace 12 May 2021 0

If you enter the Xiwu exit ramp of Fenghua, Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang province along the Shenyang–Haikou expressway and drive all the way westwards along Dacheng East Road, it will only take three minutes to reach the downtown area of Fenghua. Now, the Shenyang–Haikou expressway, the Ningbo loop expressway and the Ningbo–Jinhua expressway, which all […]

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Facebook oversight board upholds ban on Donald Trump

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2021 0

Facebook oversight board upholds ban on Donald Trump the US Capitol in Washington, was, today, 5 May, upheld by the social medium’s oversight board. The decision to uphold the ban, according to a report by NBCNEWS, is a blow to Trump’s hopes to post again to Facebook or Instagram anytime soon… “Given the seriousness of […]

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Nigeria pledges better collaboration with Zambia

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2021 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that Nigeria and Zambia will deepen collaboration for the good of their peoples and the benefit of the African continent. Mr. Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement, said Buhari gave the assurance when he received a Special Envoy of the Zambian President, Edgar Chagwa Lungu, at the State […]

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Single dose of COVID-19 vaccine can cut transmission by up to half – Researchers

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2021 0

Researchers at at the Public Health England on Wednesday said a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, can cut transmission of the virus by up to 50 per cent. In a study, the researchers discovered that people given a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech or AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines and became infected few weeks later, were between […]

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CORRUPTION: South Africa’s Ramaphosa to testify at inquiry into Zuma-era corruption

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2021 0

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will testify at an inquiry into his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s corruption on Wednesday, where he is expected to reveal what he saw as Zuma’s deputy and justify why he did not act. Ramaphosa served as deputy president from 2014 to 2018, when Zuma was deposed by his supporters in the […]