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In memory of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, which former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said would not have been possible without the contributions of 29 women from political and civic society, a celebration was held on Monday. The Queen’s University Belfast chancellor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, commended the winners of medals and honorary degrees as “determined, unstoppable forces for peace” and worked with the political parties to execute the agreement throughout her tenure as secretary of state. They included the late Mo Mowlam, Britain’s first female minister for the area, who was actively…

After a fight between the military and paramilitary broke out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) called for a cease-fire. Buhari called the fighting between the Rapid Support Forces as undesirable while General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, the interim president of Chad, paid him a visit on Sunday in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Buhari also referred to the fighting that took tens of lives as regrettable in a statement released by the spokesperson for the president, Mallam Garba Shehu. The two leaders discussed the regrettable situation and urged the surrounding nations and the international community to…

The R21 malaria vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India has received approval from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This information was provided on Monday during a news conference in Abuja by Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director General of NAFDAC. Nigeria now joins Ghana as the second nation to accept the novel malaria vaccine created by the University of Oxford. According to Prof. Adeyeye, the vaccine is recommended for use in children between the ages of 5 and 36 months to prevent the development of clinical malaria. She said the country expects to get…

Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s most well-known democracy advocates in recent years, was sentenced on Monday to three months in jail for a police officer’s data breach, according to a post on Wong’s Facebook page. The 26-year-old gained notoriety in 2014 when, as a bespectacled youngster, he emerged as a leader of student-led democratic demonstrations that resulted in 79 days of road closures in the middle of the financial district. According to the post, he was punished on Monday for violating a court order prohibiting the disclosure of private information regarding a police officer who fired shots during a…

Woman sells her baby to offset bank loan in OgunOlaide Adekunle, a 33-year-old lady, reportedly sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to pay off a bank loan. The suspect, who purportedly hails from Sango in Ogun State’s Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, reportedly left her home for Lagos, where she sold the infant to an unnamed bidder. Following a complaint made by the suspect’s husband, Nureni Rasaq, at the Sango divisional headquarters and men from the Ogun State Police Command detained the suspect. This was revealed in a statement on Monday by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state’s police public relations officer.…

In order to commemorate the completion of 10,000 brand-new, contemporary dwellings in Pyongyang’s newly developed Hwasong District, North Korea organised a ceremony on Sunday, according to the country’s official news agency KCNA. According to the source, the leader Kim Jong Un and many other top government officials, including the premier of the cabinet Kim Tok Hun, attended the event. The accomplishment comes two months after Kim broke ground on a new home development, which the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) called “another opulent socialist street full of the people’s happiness.” North Korea said that it will construct 50,000 additional flats…

In response to the recent increase in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG), the Nigerian Navy (NN) has maintained the presence of her capital ships at sea and instructed operational bases to intensify efforts to control their areas of operations. This was said in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, Director of Information for the Nigerian Navy. According to Ayo-Vanghan, the recent wave of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) decreased to an all-time low in 2022. Despite deliberate attempts to keep piracy in the GoG to a minimum, he said that two…

Egypt The Egyptian Football Premier League (EPL) said on Sunday that 3,000 Al-Ahly supporters have been banned for two matches for yelling “insults” at Zamalek and Egypt star Shikabala during the team’s most recent match against Pharco. Despite the fact that league leaders Al-Ahly did not play Zamalek on Friday, their 3,000 supporters, who represent the maximum number of spectators permitted for any club in a domestic soccer game, unloaded their ire at midfielder Shikabala in a long-running trash war. Al-Ahly was also assessed a fine for the event of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($650). Additionally, the EPL banned 2,021 Ismaili…

Thousands of Czechs protested about rising energy and inflation costs on Sunday in Prague’s main plaza, demanding on the government to step down. Police did not estimate the size of the “Czechia against poverty” rally. The non-parliamentary political group PRO, which has condemned the centre-right administration of Prime Minister Petr Fiala for its handling of the energy crisis that has afflicted Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, coordinated the protest, as it did with a related rally in March. While denied being a pro-Russian party, PRO has criticised the government for restricting free expression as…

In a murder that was seen on live television on Saturday, a former legislator in India’s parliament who had been convicted of abduction was shot dead with his brother while police were accompanying them for a medical checkup. Intense video of the guys being slain was carried on television and posted on social media. Atiq Ahmed, a former politician, has his turban blasted off as a shooter is seen leaning over police shoulders to put a weapon at his temple. A fraction of a second later, his brother Ashraf Ahmed was shot. Another video taken by newsmen shows a single…