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Anita Akpeere prepared fried rice in her kitchen in Ghana’s capital as a flurry of notifications for restaurant orders lit up apps on her phone. “I don’t think I could work without a phone in my line of business,” she said, as requests came in for her signature dish, a traditional fermented dumpling. Internet-enabled phones have transformed many lives, but… Read More

Severe weather has been pummeling parts of the world with flash floods and heatwaves recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, the Americas, and several countries in Asia. Globally, heavy rainfall events have become more frequent and intense over most land regions. according to the UN’s climate body, the IPCC. AFRICA Heavy rains and flash floods have affected nearly 1 million people… Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday lamented the high levels of poverty amongst Black South Africans and promised to create jobs and tackle the scourge of crime as he launched his new political party’s manifesto ahead of the country’s much anticipated elections. He told thousands of supporters who gathered at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg that his party would… Read More

It may have happened later in her career, but Jennifer Lopez is embracing her newfound action hero image. “It’s funny that at this point in my career, that I – you would think I did all these action movies when I was like in my 20s or whatever. And to be able as a kind of, you know, woman of… Read More

Dozens of pro-Israel protesters gathered outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Friday. Hearings are underway at the UN court as part of a genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel because of its actions in Gaza. On Thursday, South Africa said the situation in the Palestine enclave had reached “a new and horrific stage”… Read More

A Moroccan asylum-seeker who stabbed a British retiree to death in revenge for Israel’s war against Hamas was sentenced Friday to at least 45 years in prison for what the judge termed a terrorist act. Ahmed Alid told police after his arrest that he’d killed 70-year-old Terence Carney in the northeast England town of Hartlepool because “Israel had killed innocent… Read More

The legal defence team for nine Egyptian men due to go on trial in southern Greece next week accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks said Thursday they will argue Greece has no jurisdiction in the case. They insisted their clients were innocent survivors who have been unjustly prosecuted. The nine, whose ages range from early 20s to… Read More

The rumble of explosions echoed over northern Gaza on Saturday as the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave goes on. Smoke clouds obscured a skyline that has been largely destroyed in seven months of war between Israel and Hamas. Fighting has been intensifying again in the north, where Hamas has regrouped in areas Israel captured earlier in the conflict. Since… Read More

Israeli troops have recovered the bodies of three hostages in the Gaza Strip, with the military saying Friday they were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and their bodies taken into Gaza. The military did not say where the bodies were found in Gaza. Israeli forces are currently invading the southern Gaza city of Rafah, saying it’s the last… Read More

The United Nations on Thursday reported improved prospects for the world economy since its last forecast in January. It’s mid-2024 report points to a better outlook in the United States and several large emerging economies, including Brazil, India, and Russia. According to the report, the world economy is now projected to grow by 2.7 per cent this year, up from… Read More