Category: iNTERNATIONAL

Displaced Sudan citizens in millions struggle to survive amid economic downturn

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

About two months after heavy clashes around his home in Sudan’s capital drove Sherif Abdelmoneim to flee, soaring rent and food costs forced the 36-year-old and his family of six to return to a city where fighting still rages. Most of those who fled Khartoum after the war, between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. 1 million have stayed in Sudan, where they have come under increasing financial pressure. “The states (outside Khartoum) are safe but the prices are expensive and rents are high, and we cannot continue…

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Brussel says it is worried by disinformation ahead of EU election

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The European Commission on Tuesday expressed concerns about online disinformation campaigns potentially targeting next year’s European elections. Vice-President V?ra Jourová called on social media platforms to take action and singled out the Kremlin as one of the main drivers behind misleading online content, targeted at users in the European Union. EU citizens are to vote in a new European Parliament next June. “The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half-truths and lies to create a false image that democracy is no…

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Protest over economic hardship in Ghana enters 4th day

Aminu Imam

Ghanaians have resolved to remain in the streets in protest of economic hardship as the West African country continues to struggle with a high cost of living. The protest, which began on Thursday – with protesters taking their grievances to Jubilee House, Ghana’s presidential palace in Accra – continued yesterday. Although inflation in Ghana has been on a decline, hitting a 10-month low in August at 40.1 percent from 43.1 percent in July; the protesters are still asking the Ghanaian government to “Fixthecountry” as the slowdown in inflation rate is…

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Ukraine accuses Russia of torturing informants to death – UN Commission

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A United Nations commission said on Monday it is gathering more and more evidence in Ukraine that the Russian army is torturing and attacking civilians. “There is continuous evidence that Russian armed forces are committing war crimes in Ukraine,” the commission reported to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. It said the findings point to widespread and systematic use of torture by Russian forces against individuals accused of being informants for the Ukrainian armed forces. “In some cases, torture was inflicted with such brutality that it caused…

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Ukrain-Russia War: Zelensky confirms arrival of Abrams Tanks from U.S

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Ukraine war: Zelensky confirms arrival of Abrams tanks from U.S.The first U.S. Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine and are already being prepared for deployment, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Monday. In total, the United States had announced the handover of 31 battle tanks of the type to Ukraine. Zelensky did not provide details on the number of U.S, tanks already in the country. He thanked the allies for their arms assistance. The U.S. is considered Kiev’s most important military supporter. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale…

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Peacekeeping: Somali demands UN delay drawdown of troops

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
FARMAJO, HASSAN SHEIK OF SOMALIA

Somalia has asked the United Nations to pause a planned drawdown of 3,000 African Union (AU) peacekeepers for three months to allow its security forces time to regroup after a militant attack forced them to withdraw from several recently captured towns. The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which is mandated by the UN Security Council, took over from another AU mission in April last year. A Somali government letter shows the national security adviser wrote to the United Nations requesting a 90-day delay in the second phase of…

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US District Court: Bola Tinubu files emergency appeal to halt Chicago University from releasing records

Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu has filed an emergency application seeking a review of the judgement that ordered the release of his academic records at Chicago State University to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar. The United States District Court Judge, Jeffrey Gilbert, had on September 19 ordered Chicago State University to release Tinubu’s records to his Nigerian political opponent as part of an ongoing election challenge proceeding in Nigeria. The judge, who said the records must be turned over to Atiku…

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‘Coups, Democratic Reversal: Citizens tired of voting, not seeing results’ – West African elders

Aminu Imam

The West African Elders Forum, (WAEF), has urged African leaders to respect constitutions and put citizens’ welfare, peace, and security at the centre of governance. According to a statement by the forum’s Communication Officer of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, Wealth Ominabo, the forum gave the advice during a webinar, themed: ‘Making meaning of democratic reversals in West Africa’. Eight countries in West and Central Africa have witnessed coups in three years, with Gabon being the most recent. The Forum examined the challenges to democratic governance in the region and how…

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Donald Trump’s election fraud trial will be live-streamed – US Court

Aminu Imam

Former United States (US) President, Donald Trump’s trial in the State of Georgia over charges of election fraud will be live streamed and televised, a judge has ruled. According to a BBC report, all the hearings will be available live on Fulton County Court’s YouTube channel, according to Judge Scott McAfee. Though proceedings in Fulton County’s courts are usually live streamed, it will be the only one of Trump’s four trials that will be broadcast, and could be one of the most watched trials in recent years. A date for…

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Judicial Review: UK court authorises SSS victim to seize $21m from CBN account with JP Morgan in New York

Aminu Imam

A court in the United Kingdom (UK) has authorised a British-Nigerian, Louis Williams Emovbira, allegedly abused and defrauded by the State Security Service (SSS) in 1986, to seize $21 million and nearly £20,000 from Nigeria’s central bank account domiciled with the firm, JP Morgan in the United States, according to court filings. By the judgment of Justice Mary Clare Moulder, Mr Emovbira has the UK’s legal backing to approach JP Morgan in New York and seize $21,231,960.74 and £19,763.130 from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s account domiciled in the top…

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