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The African Union’s Chairperson Azali Assoumani said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide free grain to the continent were not sufficient and that a cease-fire was needed. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Comoros President and the Chairperson of the African Union Azali Assoumani deliver a joint media statement at the second Russia-Africa summit in […]

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian drone strike foiled near Moscow – Russia Russia intercepted a Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region on Friday, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. The unmanned aerial vehicle caused no casualties or damage to buildings, it said, though the exact location of the strike […]

All the latest developments from the Ukraine war. Zelenskyy sets eyes on Crimea In his latest address to the nation on Wednesday, Ukraine’s president reiterated his desire to see Crimea brought back under Ukrainian control. “We are also preparing a list of de-occupation steps for Crime,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, adding they related to security, economics and […]

The head of Niger’s armed forces on Thursday said he endorsed a declaration by troops who overnight announced they had taken power after detaining the country’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Army spokesman Colonel Major Amadou Adramane speaks during an appearance on national television, after President Mohamed Bazoum was held in the presidential palace, in Niamey, […]

The speaker of Somalia’s lower house of Parliament has strongly condemned Monday’s “cowardly, merciless and unreligious” bombing of a military base that claimed the lives of 25 soldiers and injured more than 70 others. Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur, speaker of the lower house of Parliament, in Mogadishu, Somalia, April 28, 2022. Nur on July 25, […]

Russia is doubling down in its efforts to block Ukrainian grain exports and maximize damage to Kyiv’s profits one week after it pulled out of a landmark grain deal securing Ukrainian grain exports. A combine harvests wheat in the village of Chornobaivka in Ukraine’s Kherson region.Sergei Bobylev / TASS In addition to its systematic attacks […]

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy vows to crackdown on corruption Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday he would take a zero-tolerance approach to corruption, as the country struggles to fend off Russia’s grinding invasion. He denounced “the betrayal” of deputy Yuri Aristov, spotted at a five-star luxury hotel in the Maldives […]

Seoul detects multiple projectiles hours after USS Kentucky reportedly departs Busan port A nighttime cruise missile launch earlier this year | Image: Rodong Sinmun (Feb. 24, 2023) This is a developing story, please check back for further updates. (Last updated July 22 at 9:12 a.m. KST with JCS confirmation and additional context) North Korea fired […]

He says the media misquoted him adding that he did not say al Shabaab controls 60 percent of Mandera County. In Summary He said that the statement made by him at the conference focused on the presence and activities of the group in the region. Khalif said that the message given out by the media […]

Russian army veteran and ex-FSB officer Igor Girkin has been detained, his wife and the RBC business daily’s sources said Friday. Igor Strelkov (Girkin), former defense minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic.Sergei Fadeichev / TASS Girkin, who helped Moscow annex Crimea in 2014 and then organized pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, was detained by law enforcement officers around […]