Malians ‘kill’ forests to save their lives, believe firewood is forever and trees are not going to disappear
The loss of forests has become a pressing issue across Africa as the Sahara Desert continues to creep southward. Over the past three decades, nearly 7,722 square miles (20,000 square kilometres) of forest have been lost in Mali, according to the environmental nonprofit Tree Aid.
Five Eyes: Nomination of Gabbard as US intelligence chief by Trump rattles spy world
A Western security source said there could be an initial slowdown in intelligence sharing when Trump takes office in January that could potentially impact the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Amnesty raises red flag on French weapons system in Sudan in breach of UN arms embargo
In response to the Amnesty International report, Lacroix said in an emailed statement that the company confirms it had supplied the Galix systems for the Emirati Armed Forces for the use of smoke-screening countermeasures.
Sudan army chief assures UN that lifeline for humanitarian relief through Chad to hard-hit Darfur is open
The border crossing, which was closed earlier this year, was reopened in August for three months by the Sovereign Council to address the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Darfur. Famine has been confirmed in the Zamzam displacement camp near El Fasher, North Darfur’s provincial capital.
New research says patients with ‘persistent’ Covid have slim recovery chances
One British study suggested almost a third of those reporting symptoms at 12 weeks recovered after 12 months. Others, particularly among patients who had been hospitalized, show far lower rates of recovery.
To Africans, Trump is just a distant leader who’s ‘is not going to save us from hunger caused by our government’s’
US foreign policy has not made Africa a priority for a long while – beyond seeing the continent through the lens of countering rivals such as Russia and China, said Charles Ray, chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Africa Programme.
Kenyan president’s key American ‘saleswoman’, Ambassador Meg Whitman, quits to signal imminent hard times for Nairobi
Former US Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone (1989-1993) was a darling of the opposition due to his open and strong support, both materially and politically, to the democratic movements at the time in Kenya.
UN accuses Iran, UAE and Egypt of ‘enabling the slaughter in Sudan’ by arming warring factions
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum and spread to other regions, including western Darfur, which was wracked by bloodshed and atrocities in 2003. The UN recently warned that the country has been pushed to the brink of famine.
Trump names Elon Musk to head nearly created, informal Department of Government Efficiency
Elon Musk, ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world, already stood to benefit from Trump’s victory, with the billionaire entrepreneur expected to wield extraordinary influence to help his companies and secure favourable government treatment.
Allies: Trump will make slew of executive orders to arrest migrants with no criminal record on day one in White House
One of Trump’s Day One executive actions is expected to be an order on so-called interior enforcement, arresting and detaining immigrants in the US illegally, the sources said.
