Guinea military quashes attempt to oust ruling junta, locks down area around presidential palace
Several West African nations including Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have had coups that installed military juntas. They have severed or scaled back long-standing military ties with Western powers in favor of security support from Russia.
Haiti’s head of transition council, Edgard Leblanc, grateful for Americans’ solidarity with migrants in Ohio
The majority of the 15,000 Haitian Americans in Springfield are in the US legally. Springfield has faced a wave of bomb threats to schools and other facilities in the wake of the claims.
Lebanese pour into Syria as fears of Gaza-like carnage grow following Israeli airstrikes kill 700
On Monday, Israel struck 1,600 targets across Lebanon, killing 492 people and wounding 1,645, and causing a massive wave of displacement as thousands fled from south Lebanon north. It was a staggering one-day toll that shocked a nation used to war. It was by far the deadliest barrage since the monthlong 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, when an estimated 1,000 people in Lebanon were killed.
Kenya will send more police officers to Haiti, president says
Kenya earlier pledged to lead the multinational force with 1,000 police officers.
Congo and Rwanda face-off in regional court over breaches of sovereignty, looting of natural resources in former’s east
In the lawsuit, Congo seeks to hold Rwanda accountable for violations including atrocities against civilians and breaches of international law, and also secure reparations for the victims of these alleged crimes.
Uganda commissions largest hydropower plant to generate 600 megawatt that cost $1.7 billion
President Yoweri Museveni said his government aimed to ensure access to “cheap, reliable, affordable electricity.” Karuma is the second hydropower plant China has financed in Uganda in recent years.
Republicans, Democrats bicker over military aid to Ukraine as Biden announces $8 billion assistance
The bulk of the new aid, $5.5 billion, is to be allocated before Monday’s end of the US fiscal year when the funding authority is set to expire. Another $2.4 billion is under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the administration to buy weapons for Ukraine from companies rather than pull them from US stocks.
Memorial service held for 21 pupils who died in Kenyan school fire, cause of blaze still unknown
Kenya has a sad history of school fires. There were more than 60 cases of arson in public secondary schools in 2018, according to most recent data in a parliamentary report. It is not yet known what caused the fire at Hillside Endarasha Academy, but researchers say many similar fires have been started by students protesting harsh discipline and poor conditions.
Israel rejects Lebanon peace plan, labels Iran the nexus of violence and wants threat dismantled
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, heading to New York to address the United Nations, said he had not yet given his response to the truce proposal but had instructed the army to fight on. Hardliners in his government said Israel should reject any truce and keep hitting Hezbollah. Israeli airstrikes overnight hit around 75 Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, including weapons storage facilities and ready-to-fire launchers, the Israeli military said on Thursday.
How Harris is exploiting scandal-plagued Republican governor to tweak N. Carolina vote
The state’s embattled Republican candidate for governor, Robinson is featured in conversations this week with Harris volunteers and voters on the phone and at their doorways. Democrats wave signs warning of Trump-Robinson extremism at their press conferences. Billboard trucks circulate in key cities warning that Robinson, also the state’s lieutenant...
