Matthew Miller
8 Jan
United States has condemned the brazen ceasefire violations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the Rwanda-backed, United States and United Nations -sanctioned M23 armed group.
21 May 2024
President Bola Tinubu has sent condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the passing of President Ebrahim
17 Mar 2024
Niger's government announced on Saturday that it was breaking off "with immediate effect" its military cooperation agreement with the United States. The declaration came just a day after a senior US delegation left Niger, following a three-day visit to renew contact with the military junta that ousted the president and moved closer to Russia. The…
7 Feb 2024
The vote to delay Senegal's presidential election until December "cannot be considered legitimate", the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into its worst crisis in decades. The reaction is the most critical to date from one of Senegal's major international allies, after the delay to the February…
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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Monday praised Donald Trump as warm and friendly with "incredible grace" and in no way a "warmonger", in marked contrast to past scathing comments. In 2018 Lammy, who was then in opposition, called Trump a "woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath" and a "tyrant in a toupee" while other senior Labour…
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Russia said on Monday a British man captured fighting on Ukraine's side in the Kursk region faces charges of "terrorism" and acting as a "mercenary", punishable by decades in prison. James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, was captured in November while fighting with Ukrainian forces in Kursk, the western Russian border region where Kyiv began an…
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Men of the Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB), Igbokoda, Ondo State, at the weekend, intercepted a wooden boat carrying 40,000 litres of crude oil in the state. According to the commanding officer of the base, Navy Captain Aliyu Usman, the boat was intercepted at Obe-Nla community in the Ilaje Local Council Area of the…
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported an 18.5 per cent Case of Fatality Rate (CFR) for Lassa fever.
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet denied on Monday his government and father, former leader Hun Sen, were involved in the killing of an opposition politician in downtown Bangkok this month. Lim Kimya, a former lawmaker for the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was shot dead on January 7 by a motorcyclist as he arrived…
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The Enugu State Government, says it has earmarked N2 billion in 2025, for farm estates across the 260 wards in the state.
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A Vietnamese court handed a former government spokesperson a suspended prison sentence Monday for graft, state media said, an accusation that has seen dozens of senior officials jailed. Thousands of people, including top officials and senior business leaders, have been caught up in the Southeast Asian country's "blazing furnace" crackdown. On Monday the court in…
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A Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded a 30-year-old earing-impaired man, Temitope Holo, in Awarjigoh correctional facility
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A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that caused days of nationwide rioting. Axel Rudakubana, 18, changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on what was due to be the first day of his trial at…
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Ukraine attacked a Russian-occupied town in the southern Kherson region on Monday, killing two people and wounding more than a dozen others, Russian state media reported. The region's Moscow-installed governor said Ukrainian forces had fired "cluster munitions" near a school in the town of Bekhtery when students and teachers were on their way to lessons…