Month: June 2022

2 Police Officers Killed in North Benin Attack

Two police officers were killed and one wounded in an attack on a police station in northwest Benin on Sunday, police sources said, the latest in a string of deadly assaults in an area affected by a spillover of militant activity in neighboring Burkina…

Romanian Port Struggles to Handle Flow of Ukrainian Grain

With Ukraine’s seaports blockaded or captured by Russian forces, neighboring Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta has emerged as a main conduit for the war-torn country’s grain exports amid a growing world food crisis.It’s Romania’s biggest port, home…

Groups in Spain, Morocco Push for Border Deaths Inquiry

Human rights organizations in Spain and Morocco called on both countries to investigate the deaths of at least 18 Africans and injuries suffered by dozens more who attempted to scale the border fence that surrounds Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North A…

G20 ambitious on plan to roll out pandemic fund this year

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Finance Ministers and Health Ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies agree to establish a ground-breaking pandemic fund to help the world better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics. Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati co-chaired the 1st G20 Joint […]

29 Kidnapped Wedding Guests Freed in Nigeria

KANO, NIGERIA — Twenty-nine people kidnapped by gunmen two weeks ago as they returned from a wedding in northwest Nigeria have been freed, relatives told AFP on Friday.The victims, all mobile phone traders, were returning to the Zamfara state capital, …

South Africa records first case of monkeypox

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa on Thursday reported its first case of monkeypox, joining some 40 other countries that have identified patients with the disease.“The patient is a 30-year-old male from Johannesburg who has no travel history, meaning that thi…