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Africa

Tunisia suffers nationwide power cut

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Tunisia suffered a sudden power cut lasting around three hours across the country on Wednesday due to a technical problem, the state-owned monopoly electricity and gas company Steg announced. Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

Gabon: Ali Bongo’s son and relatives of the deposed president jailed for “high treason”

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Ali Bongo’s eldest son, former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, and four other people were “indicted on Tuesday and remanded in custody”, Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

UNESCO adds Djerba in Tunisia to world heritage list

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Ancient ruins, whitewashed villages, mosques, churches and synagogues: the heritage of the tourist island of Djerba in southern Tunisia was included on UNESCO’s world list on Monday, the organization announced.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

Tunisian president remarks on storm Daniel

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Kais Saied also blasted the naming choice of the Mediterranean storm that hit neighbouring Libya last week, in scathing remarks in Tunis on Tuesday.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Europe

Courage needed to mend today’s global rifts, German leader tells UN Assembly

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterEurope News

Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed that in an increasingly interdependent world, “a policy for peace must not stop on our own doorstep.” Source UN News Read More

Pacific

UN rights experts condemn Iran’s protest crackdown

September 20, 2023 Village ReporterAsia News

Iran has escalated its crackdown on protests, to prevent public commemoration of Jina Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody last year, UN independent human rights experts warned on Tuesday. Source UN News Read More

Africa

EU voices “solidarity” with French envoy in Niger

September 19, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also renewed the bloc’s “full solidarity” with Mohamed Bazoum, the elected president who has been under house arrest with his family. Borrell spoke to reporters on Sep. 18 after the bloc’s foreign ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

At least 8 dead in military helicopter crash in Kenya

September 19, 2023 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

The cause of the accident in Lamu County, on the Kenyan coast, was not immediately clear. Kenyan defense forces operate in the region to help deter al-Qaeda- linked extremists from the Al-Shahab group, based across the border in Somalia.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

Sudan: Children dying amid healthcare system collapse

September 19, 2023 Village ReporterUN Africa News

In war-torn Sudan, more than 1,200 children under five have died in camps in the space of four months from a combination of measles and malnutrition, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. UN Africa News Read More

Africa

We have a duty to leave no one behind, South African President tells world leaders

September 19, 2023 Village ReporterUN Africa News

The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, stating that while every human effort should be directed towards realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, “our energies have once again been diverted by the scourge of war.” UN Africa News Read More