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Afghanistan: Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights

Village Reporter
Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, and the Assistant Secretary-General for UN political, peacebuilding and peace operations, Khaled Khiari, spend four days on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan, to engage with Taliban leaders, and “underscore UN solidarity with the Afghan people”, according to a press release issued to correspondents on Friday.  Call to reverse course In… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Gabon’s foreign minister dies of heart attack

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Gabon’s Foreign Minister Michael Moussa Adamo has died of a heart attack. President Ali Bongo made the announcement in a statement on Friday. “He was a very great diplomat, a true statesman. For me, he was first of all a friend, loyal and faithful, whom I could always count on,” said Bongo on Twitter. Notre ministre des Affaires étrangères, Michael… Read More
Africa Business World 

Google’s parent company to lay off 12,000 workers

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Google’s parent Alphabet Inc is cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, it said in a staff memo Friday, as the technology sector reels from layoffs and companies stake their futures on artificial intelligence (AI). Alphabet’s shares were up nearly 3% in pre-market trading. The cuts come at a delicate moment for the U.S. company, which has long… Read More
Europe 

Ukraine: UN aid reaches Soledar as IAEA boosts safety measures at nuclear sites

Village Reporter
Jens Laerke from UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, said that three trucks had been granted access to areas under Ukrainian Government control just a few kilometres from the heavily disputed city in the Donbas region, which has been an intense battleground, as Russian forces seek to advance on the strategically important town of Bakhmut. He told journalists at Friday’s briefing… Read More
Africa Featured World 

Africa’s economic growth to outpace global forecast in 2023-2024

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Africa is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real gross domestic product (GDP) averaging around 4% in 2023 and 2024. This is higher than projected global averages of 2.7% and 3.2%, the African Development Bank Group said in Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report for the region, released in… Read More
Africa Central Africa World 

DR Congo: 145 passengers missing in boat disaster

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At least 145 passengers are reported missing after a boat with goods and animals sank in a river in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Local authorities said that about 55 people survived the disaster which happened on Tuesday night. The boat which was heading for neighbouring Republic of Congo capsized on the Lulonga River near the town of… Read More
Pacific 

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO

Village Reporter
The agency announced on Thursday that it was dedicating the International Day of Education on 24 January, to the country’s women and girls.  “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said Director-General Audrey Azoulay.   “The international community has the responsibility to ensure… Read More
Europe 

Northern Ireland: UK ‘immunity’ legislation could hamper victims’ rights, warns Türk

Village Reporter
The High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged on Thursday that addressing the violent legacy of intercommunal relations in Northern Ireland from the 1960s to the 1990s was “hugely complex and sensitive”. ‘Conditional immunity’ But he warned against plans to give conditional immunity from investigation and prosecution to those accused of serious human rights violations and other international crimes, other than sexual offences.… Read More
Africa Senegal West Africa World 

Senegal: Opposition leader Sonko to face rape trial

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The opposition leader in Senegal, Ousmane Sonko is to face trial on charges of rape, an investigating judge has said. The case has now been referred to Senegal’s criminal chamber for trial. Sonko is also facing trial for making death threats to a beauty salon employee in 2021. Sonko is accused of sexually assaulting the woman who worked in a… Read More
Africa Featured World 

Plants on Lunar Soil

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Scientists have for the first-time grown plants on lunar surface material known as regolith which had been collected 50 years before by Apollo astronauts. Researchers used three of those samples to experiment. This comes just at the beginning of the Artemis era and the return of astronauts to the moon. During the research, scientists grew Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant in… Read More
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