TB, malaria, newborn health services must restart – USAID memo
February 9, 2025 American-funded aid efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria, as well as preventing newborn baby deaths and treating severe malnutrition, should resume, according to a memo from…
Morocco foils 78,685 migrant attempts to reach Europe in 2024
February 6, 2025 Morocco stopped 78,685 migrants from illegally crossing into European Union territory in 2024, up 4.6% from a year earlier, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The figures…
Trump employs Elon Musk as ‘special employee’ without pay
Elon Musk is joining the US government after all as special employee but at no cost to America as he would not be needing any wage for his services. President…
Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China imports begin Feb 1 with retaliatory threats
President Donald Trump said Friday he would place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective Saturday, February 1, raising the…
No survivors in American Airlines plane collision; 67 persons said dead
Washington’s Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said Thursday morning that 28 bodies were recovered from the scene: 27 passengers from the jet and one from the helicopter. All the…
UN agency says US waiver to help in continued supply of life-saving HIV treatment
January 29, 2025 A U.S. humanitarian waiver will allow people in several countries to continue accessing life-saving HIV treatments, the UNAIDS said on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump’s freeze on…
176 persons escape death as plane catches fire
The tail of a passenger aircraft caught fire at an international airport in South Korea’s second-largest city on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 176 people on board, Yonhap news agency…
Two children killed, 17 rescued in Mediterranean shipwreck – NGO says
January 26, 2025 Seventeen migrants were rescued after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, while two children died, the German NGO Sea Punks said on Sunday. The rescue took place in…
Illegal Immigrants: US Arrests, Deports 538 days after Trump inauguration
January 24, 2025 US authorities have arrested 538 illegal migrants and deported hundreds in a mass operation just days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, his press secretary said late…
U.S can now arrest Nigerian migrants, others in churches, hospitals, schools
U.S. immigration and border officials will now be able to arrest Nigerian and other migrants at so-called “sensitive” locations after the Trump administration overturned policies limiting where such arrests could…