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Month: June 2023

Africa 

African leaders meet in Angola to discuss East DRC tensions

Village Reporter,
The president of the African Union considered today that the deterioration of the situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRCongo) “destabilizes the country” and defended efforts to make the country “a source of happiness and not of conflict”. Azali Assoumani, who was speaking at the opening of the Quadripartite Summit of Heads of State and Government… Read More
Human Rights 

UN refugee agency predicts spike in resettlement needs next year

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 According to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs Assessment for 2024, over 2.4 million refugees will be in need of resettlement, marking a 20 per cent increase compared to 2023. © UNHCR/Lilly Carlisle A woman leaves a refugee camp in Rwanda on her way to resettlement in Norway. Escalating challenges  With a deepening refugee crisis, security breakdowns and conflicts, urgent action is… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

I Almost Took To Begging Before I Had A Hit Song – Humble Smith

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Posted by Nwa Diokpa Entertainment News, Latest News Tuesday, June 27th, 2023 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian singer, Ekenedirichukwu Ijemba, aka Humble Smith, has stated that he almost became a beggar in 2015 before God helped him. Humble Smith made this known in an interview with reality star, Kimoprah, saying that he had gone to a church in Lagos to ask… Read More
Europe 

WHO: ‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans

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This summer will be “the first in more than three years that many of us will enjoy without the looming threat of COVID-19”, but the life-threatening virus has not gone away completely, said WHO’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, told reporters at a virtual press conference from Copenhagen. Each week, the coronavirus causes at least 1,000 new deaths across the… Read More
Africa 

United Kingdom: nearly 200,000 euros per migrant sent to Rwanda

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London’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost nearly 200,000 euros per person, the British government acknowledged on Tuesday. The Conservative government has made controlling legal and illegal immigration, which was already a Brexit promise, one of its priorities. In particular, he promised to stop the small boats of asylum seekers arriving by the English Channel. In… Read More
Africa 

South Africa: German foreign minister in Pretoria for talks

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Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was in Pretoria on Tuesday to meet with her South African counterpart Naledi Pandor for the German-South African Binational Commission. Key issues expected to be discussed at the talks centred around energy security, climate change and geopolitical issues affecting Africa and Europe, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  South Africa has faced criticism for its neutral… Read More
Africa 

Sudan: Displacement soars amid shrinking humanitarian access

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“We’ve already seen over 560,000 people crossing into neighbouring countries… nearly two million people displaced internally,” said Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, following a visit to Sudan. Since conflict erupted there on 15 April when rival militaries clashed, more than half a million people have reached neighbouring countries in a bid to escape the fighting, with Egypt receiving… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

I almost became a beggar before God blessed me with hit song – Humble Smith

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Nigerian singer, Ekenedirichukwu Ijemba, better known as Humble Smith, has revealed that he almost took to begging in 2015 before he received a divine intervention. The 32-year-old said he had gone to a church in Lagos to solicit help but later changed his mind after he got the inspiration for his hit song, ‘Osinachi’ while in the church. Humble Smith… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

African Christian music goes urban

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Soweto Gospel Choir perform during the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, 2 December 2018 Jemal Countess · Getty Images for Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 The earliest known recording of Christian music by an African artist was made in 1922 and is preserved in the British Library archives. The composer and singer of Jesu Olugbala ni mo… Read More
Africa 

Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, officials say

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Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say. The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray in March after the discovery of a scheme to steal donated wheat intended for needy people. They extended… Read More