NBA giant LeBron James erases basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s points record, vows to carry on
NBA superstar, LeBron James has vowed to keep playing after surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s all-time leading points scorer. The Lakers forward, 38, went into the match-up with Oklahoma City needing 36 points to take the scoring record, and he finished with 38 points in a 133-130 loss....
Uganda says it won’t renew UN human rights office mandate citing own capacity to cope
Uganda has said it will not renew the mandate of the United Nations’ human rights office in the East African country, citing the development of its own sufficient capacity to monitor rights compliance. In a letter by Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Ministry sent to Office of the UN High Commissioner for...
Britain promises Ukraine increased military firepower to fend off increased Russian attacks
Britain announced an immediate surge of military deliveries to Ukraine to help it fend off an intensifying Russian offensive and pledged to train its pilots as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in London on a rare visit abroad. Zelenskiy was due to travel onto Brussels on Thursday where the European...
Burundi meet: Attempt by eastern Congo rebels to down South African airforce helicopter aborts
A weekend attempt to shoot down a South African military transport helicopter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a further example of what the senior United Nations (UN) representative in the country called “a dramatic deterioration” in security. The words were used by MONUSCO head and UN Special...
Death toll in Turkey earthquakes rising rapidly towards 12,000 as seismologists warn of more quakes
The number of people known to have died in Syria and Turkey has surpassed 11,000 as rescue attempts continue for a third day. Two earthquakes that struck on Monday have quickly become the deadliest in Turkey since 1999, when 17,000 died, and the number is expected to continue rising. The...
Vaccine safety advocate Brandy Vaughan mysterious death sums up Africa’s ‘suicide’ via ‘dirty’ drugs
When Covid ravaged the world between from late 2019 to 2022, Africa looked destined for what had been cast as imminent Armageddon in Africa, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa raised a key concern that African scientists have yet to address: To what extent should Africans trust vaccines manufactured by Big...
