The tributes are pouring following the announcement of the passing of American baseball legend, Willie Mays, on Tuesday. He was 93. The San Francisco Giants, where Mays spent most of his career, obsessed a moment of silence in-game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. According to Africanews, Fans at Mays’ hometown ballpark, Rickwood Field,…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a fresh barrage of projectiles into northern Israel on Wednesday, the Israeli army said, a day after Israel warned of a “total war” with the Iran-backed militant group. “Approximately 15 projectiles were identified from Lebanon toward the area of Kiryat Shmona, several of which were intercepted by [army] aerial defence array,” the…
Egypt has carried out mass arrests and unlawful deportations of thousands of refugees fleeing the war in Sudan, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The rights group said it had documented 12 incidents in which Egyptian authorities returned an estimated total of 800 Sudanese nationals between January and March this year,…
The Sudanese government on Tuesday, 19th June 2024, accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of fueling the 14-month war in the country by providing weapons to a rival paramilitary force. The UAE dismissed the allegation as “ludicrous,” calling it “a shameful abuse by one of the warring parties.” The clash came during a U.N. Security…
The Anambra State government, through the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, has handed a couple and an accomplice to the police for alleged human trafficking in Ifitedunu, Dunukofia Local Government Area of the state. According to SaharaReporters, the couple, identified as Temple and Ndubuisi Nwankwo, were arrested by the police alongside one Ebere while…
