October 23, 2023   By UNSOM   MOGADISHU – Sitting in a small, windowless room in a government building in the Somali capital, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed loops another audio tape onto the dilapidated machine and presses a few buttons. After a few clicks, the antiquated device starts to whir and its wheels spin – one tape down, and another ...

  October 21, 2023   FILE – People hold banners as they protest against police brutality at Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos, Nigeria on Oct. 15, 2020. Many Nigerians on Friday Oct. 20, 2023 remembered the victims of the historic protests against police brutality which took place three years ago, with Amnesty International reporting that at least 15 of the ...

  October 21, 2023   . Egypt and Jordan leaders denounced ‘global silence’ on Israel’s attacks on Gaza . Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinians would not be displaced or driven off their land . Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister rejected “attempts at forced displacement” of the people of Gaza by Israel   Seen on a large screen the Palestinian president ...

  October 21, 2023   Russia also fired a missile at a group of dachas, a type of cottage, in Kryvyi Rig – President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown. PHOTO: REUTERS   By AFP   KYIV – Russia struck areas of eastern and southern Ukraine with artillery and missiles on Friday and Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding four others, ...

  October 20, 2023   Insecurity persists in Somalia, with extremist group Al-Shabaab and fighting in the Laascaanood region taking a heavy toll on civilians, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Thursday. UN Photo/Loey Felipe Catriona Laing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia, briefs the ...

  October 20, 2023   In this file photo dated Oct 3, 2022, Dai Bing (front), China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks during the opening of the main session of the Fifth Committee of the 77th UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. (PHOTO / XINHUA)   By Xinhua | Editor: Huaxia   UNITED ...

  October 20, 2023   Diplomatic Efforts: Sunak’s visit follows other leaders like German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden, as they try to prevent the conflict from widening British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem yesterday. Photo: EPA-EFE   By Bloomberg   British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived ...

  October 18, 2023   Police say extremist ADF rebels carried out ‘cowardly terrorist attack’ near border with DRC Queen Elizabeth National Park, located in a remote area of south-west Uganda, is one of the country’s most popular conservation areas. Photograph: PhotoKratky/Wildlife/Nature/Alamy   By Associated Press in Kampala   Two tourists from the UK and South Africa and their Ugandan ...

  October 18, 2023   The attack took place three miles from a Belgium qualifying match for Euro 2024. Police cordon off the area where the shooting took place in Brussels. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images   By Aicha El Hammar Castano, Jon Haworth, Ellie Kaufman, and Jolie Lash | ABC News   LONDON – Authorities suspect the Tunisian man, accused ...

  May 7, 2023   Battles since mid-April have killed hundreds of people and wounded thousands of others, disrupted aid supplies and sent 100,000 refugees fleeing abroad Smoke billows in Khartoum amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals in Sudan on May 6, 2023. PHOTO: AFP   By REUTERS   KHARTOUM – Fighting could be heard in ...