Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon Tran Qui Thanh, was on Thursday, sent to jail for eight years in a $40m fraud case. Thanh’s case is the...
An inclusive society is crucial for a nation’s human and economic development in the modern era. In this edition of Project Aliyense, we feature Paul Kunda,...
Josephine Diase, a prominent figure in the Disability Movement, sheds light on the obstacles confronting people with disabilities in rural regions, especially as it concerns media...
German prosecutors on Wednesday formally filed charges against seven suspected radical Islamists arrested last July. The men face charges of forming a terrorist organisation and plotting...
Kitwe Press Club spokesperson, Michael Kaluba, has described the media landscape in Zambia as complex and contentious. In a conversation with Zambia Monitor in Kitwe, Kaluba...
Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Meta, has been convicted to six years in prison by Russian authorities in absentia on charges of “terrorism” pertaining to the...
At least 58 people when a boat capsized in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Friday. The head of civil protection, Thomas Djimasse, told journalists...
The Group of Seven (G7) has strongly condemned Iran for its attacks on Israel. A meeting of foreign ministers from the group of industrialised democracies has...
In a significant escalation of tensions, Israel carried out airstrikes on targets within Iran on Thursday according to US officials. The exact nature of the strikes...
Kenya’s defence chief, Gen. Francis Omondi Ogolla, and nine other top officers died in a military helicopter crash in the country on Thursday. President William Ruto...
Rescuers in Indonesia raced to evacuate thousands of people on Thursday after a volcano erupted five times, forcing authorities to close a nearby airport and issue...
At least eight people died and two were declared missing following a shipwreck in Mozambique’s Caia District on Monday. Reports said on Tuesday the canoe-type boat...
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people in Gaza on Friday. Reports said many people died and dozens were injured when the Israeli forces struck...
At least 17 Muslim pilgrims have been confirmed killed with over 40 others injured after a bus carrying them to a religious site in southwest Pakistan,...
Police operatives in Turkey have detained eight people suspected of selling information to the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. The country’s Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya, disclosed this...
The United States has lifted a temporary ban on some New Zealand fish exports. The New Zealand Minister of Agriculture, Todd McClay, disclosed this on Wednesday...
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan has left no fewer than four people dead and 97 injured on Wednesday. The earthquake, said to be Taiwan’s strongest...
Eight people believed to be migrants died in an auto accident in south-eastern Albania on Tuesday. Police told journalists the vehicle carrying the group fell from...
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has carried out his vow of banning Qatar-owned media platform, Al Jazeera, from broadcasting in Israel. The Israeli Parliament effected the...
The Israeli army has finally withdrawn from al-Shifa Hospital in the city of Gaza, after two weeks of military operation there. The Palestinian media reported that...
A customary marriage between a 63-year-old Ghanaian traditional priest, Gborbu Wulomo, Nuumo Borketey Laweh XXXIII and a 12-year-old girl identified as Naa Okromo, has sparked public...
Thousands of Israelis on Saturday staged a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government over the ongoing war in Gaza. The ongoing Gaza war was triggered...
An Iranian court has sentenced a police chief, Jafar Javanmardi, to death for the fatal shooting of a protester during the nationwide demonstrations in 2022. The...
Despite a demand for immediate ceasefire by the United Nations, Israeli forces have continued to bomb the Gaza Strip while fighting Hamas militants around hospitals in...
Malam Bacai Sanha Jr, the son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha has been sentenced to more than six and a half years...
Three people have been confirmed killed with 12 injured in a rare suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s political headquarters of Kandahar, Taliban officials have reported. Inamullah Samangani,...
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President has warned that a direct conflict between Russia and NATO would mean that the planet is one step away from World...
A union on Thursday urged all journalists in Portugal to join a one-day strike over low wages and job insecurity. The strike action is Portugal’s first...
At least 15 people including the crew and passengers aboard a Russian military transport plane have died after the aircraft crashed shortly after taking off in...
Health workers and caregivers have been banned from bringing their families to the United Kingdom on work visas, the UK government has said. According to the...
The military governments in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic have resolved to set up a joint force to fight Islamist terrorist groups in the three...
France is on the verge of making a historic move, as lawmakers are expected to definitively enshrine abortion rights within the country’s constitution. This would make...
Kenya’s parliament head has ordered the education ministry to look into claims that a university in the country is making Muslim students go to Christian services....
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Thursday more than 30,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel...
Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday, passed a new strict anti-LGBTQ bill after months of debate and opposition by pro-gay groups and the international community. The legislation known...
Thousands of security forces have been deployed to Chad capital, N’Djamena and road blocks set up on major roads following an attack on the headquarters of...
The European Union has removed four countries from its list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The countries are – Bahamas, Belize, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands. The...
President Macky Sall of Senegal has been accused of “ill will” by fifteen candidates in the country’s delayed presidential election. The candidates also noted that they...
The German government has agreed to join a European Union military mission to protect shipping in the Red Sea. The deputy government spokesman, Wolfgang Büchner announced...
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader for the past decade and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic, has died in prison, according to an announcement from...
Russia, on Thursday, launched new missile attacks on Ukraine, hitting infrastructure, damaging residential and commercial buildings, and injuring at least 11 people in different parts of...
A celebratory atmosphere turned tragic at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade, as a shooting erupted amidst the jubilant crowd. One...
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 214-213 to impeach Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, over a record influx of illegal migrants crossing...
China has called on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible following a raid that rescued two hostages and killed at least...
Leader of Niger Republic’s military junta, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that his country would never rejoin the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of...
Israel’s spy chief has travelled to Cairo on Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian and United States counterparts on a Gaza truce proposal, Israeli officials have...
Four people were killed and another one injured after a gunman opened fire at a market in the city of Rustavi, Georgia. The country’s Ministry of...