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NAIROBI – The World Food Programme said yesterday it had airdropped food aid to help tens of thousands of people in remote parts of South Sudan where surging conflict has pushed some communities “to the brink of famine”. The unstable east African nation has seen a drastic uptick in violence since simmering rivalry between President...
Russia said Sunday it had captured another two settlements in eastern Ukraine, one in the Donetsk region and one in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine did not immediately comment on Russia’s claims. Moscow has been grinding forward on the front line for over a year, pressing its advantage against overstretched and outmanned Ukrainian troops. On Sunday,...
China hit back on Sunday at an European Union (EU) ban on Chinese firms from major medical equipment purchases with a reciprocal bar on European companies in the latest trade salvo between the two economies. China’s finance ministry said in a statement that EU companies, except “those with European capital established in China, will have...
JERUSALEM – A group of 169 aid organisations called for an end to a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme in Gaza after repeated reports of people being killed while seeking rations. The NGOs urged a return to the UN-led aid mechanism that existed in the war-torn territory until March, when Israel imposed a full...
MOSCOW – The Kremlin yesterday slammed Azerbaijan’s detention of Russian journalists and urged Baku to release them, further escalating a diplomatic rift between the ex-Soviet neighbours. Moscow and Baku been been embroiled in a spat after two ethnic Azerbaijanis died over the weekend following Russian police raids targeted at the diaspora in Yekaterinburg in a...
LISBON – Portugal recorded its highest-ever single-day temperature in June 46.6 degrees Celsius while last month was the hottest in Spain, the countries’ weather services said yesterday. The IPMA agency said the record temperature — the equivalent of 115.9 degrees Fahrenheit — was registered on Sunday at Mora, about 100 kilometres east of the...
WASHINGTON – Republican senators struggled yesterday for a second day to pass president Donald Trump’s flagship spending bill, which would slash welfare programmes for the poor while adding an eye-watering US$3 trillion to the national debt. The president wants his “One Big Beautiful Bill” – which polls show is wildly unpopular among Americans – to...
NAIROBI – The impact of US aid cuts has already taken a toll in South Sudan and children are dying, Action Against Hunger told AFP on Tuesday. The east African nation has remained deeply poor and unstable since independence in 2011 and is massively dependent on international aid despite its oil wealth.It is among the...
ABIDJAN – In Africa’s turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, food distribution and signing pacts with local authorities to position itself as a key political player. The Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) has not ruled out governing states and has condemned bloody...
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo said yesterday that a peace deal with Rwanda aimed at ending decades of violence in eastern DRC paves the way for “a new era of stability”. Rich in natural resources, especially lucrative minerals, the vast DRC’s east has been plagued by deadly fighting that has ravaged the...