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Congo-Kinshasa: All Parties in DR Congo Are Committing Violations, Says New UN Report
[allAfrica] Geneva -- A new UN report has found that all the parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo)'s provinces of North and South Kivu have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Dissent simmers in China despite Xi flaunting military might
As Beijing showcased China's military might, a bold act of dissent in Chongqing lit up the night, revealing deep divides behind China's patriotic display.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:UK’s Keir Starmer forced into sweeping reshuffle as deputy quits
Rejig of Starmer's team comes just days after a relaunch of his struggling administration.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:The populist battle for cultural dominance
MAGA ideologues in the U.S. have now enlarged the Orbán playbook, and are looking to remake liberal Europe in their own image.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Marco Rubio Uses ‘Nazi Tactics’ to Discredit UN Drug Trafficking Reports: FM Gil
U.S. Secretary of State attacks ‘truth and dignity’ while ignoring evidence, the Venezuelan diplomat pointed out. On Thursday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil rejected statements made by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who dismissed United Nations reports showing that Venezuela is free of illicit crops and effectively fights drug trafficking. RELATED: President Nicolás Maduro […]
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Can Non-Native Funders Embrace a Native Worldview?
How can philanthropy support Native people? Money helps, but it also requires rooting giving in values of reciprocity, responsibility, relationships, redistribution, and respect.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Fact check: False flood footage spreads in India and Pakistan
Pakistan and India are currently facing devastating floods. But there's a surge of online misinformation around those stories. From AI generated content to old videos, social media users are sharing false flood footage.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Bauhaus Dessau celebrates centennial amid far-right attacks
The Bauhaus in Dessau is marking its 100th year with a focus on sustainable building as Germany's far-right AfD party uses the anniversary to attack the movement.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Ayen Community Appeals to Edo Govt Over Insecurity, Alleges Unlawful Arrests
[Vanguard] Ayen community in Uhumwode Local Government Area of Edo State has appealed to the state government and security agencies to address ongoing insecurity and what it describes as unlawful arrests of some of its members.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:India-US Relations in the Shadow of American Decline
With the sun setting on the U.S. empire and decline in Indo-U.S. ties, India is leveraging the multipolarity of the international system to diversify its relations, increase trade with Russia and reset relations with China.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Customs Begin Automation of Excise Registration System
[Leadership] The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it has concluded the pilot phase of its Automated Excise Register System (ERS), which was introduced as part of an extensive modernisation agenda for efficient excise administration.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Congo-Kinshasa: Signatories to DR Congo Peace Deal Re-Commit Despite Renewed Violence
[allAfrica] Monrovia -- The signatories to a U.S.-brokered peace agreement intended to end the decades-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo have recommitted themselves to implementing the deal. This follows a resurgence of violence in the mineral-rich eastern region, which has cast doubt on various regional and international efforts to resolve the conflict.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: FG Targets 10bn SCF Daily Gas Output By 2030
[Leadership] The federal government has reiterated its target of producing 10 billion standard cubic feet (SCF) of gas per day by 2030, with fresh assurances that ongoing reforms are designed to position Nigeria as a global energy hub.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Uganda: Pilsner Lager Deepens Tooro Ties With Sh150 Million for 30th Coronation Anniversary
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Pilsner Lager has announced a contribution of sh150 million towards Tooro Kingdom's upcoming 30th Coronation Anniversary.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Urgent Need for Climate Finance
[Ethiopian Herald] The Second United Nations Climate summit in Addis Ababa is expected to uphold a clear and resounding message: Africa cannot afford to wait any longer for meaningful climate finance. The call from leaders, policymakers, and international organizations was unequivocal--financing climate resilience is not charity; it is justice.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Getting Renewable Energy Intensified Helps Have Healthy Economic Growth
[Ethiopian Herald] Capitalizing on renewable energy, especially in these days when climate change has been exacerbated by a multitude of natural and man-made factors, is of paramount importance in helping countries secure healthy economic growth and a safe ecological future.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:No, China’s Isn’t Leading an Anti-West Bloc
Two meetings that didn't happen alongside the recent SCO summit and military parade show Beijing is not planning to confront the West.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Addis Sensitizing Residents to Benefit More From Urban Agriculture
[Ethiopian Herald] With an estimated more than 4 million people, Adds Ababa is one of the most congested cities in the country and in Africa. As a result the cost of land per square meter is very expensive and is difficult to find adequate space to run agricultural businesses which naturally require wider area of land. Hence, it has to rely on the products of rural areas to feed the large number of residents.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Africa: Africa Rising and Dancing to the Tune of Reggae Music
[Ethiopian Herald] The concept of "Africa rising" has long lacked significance, and the idea of an African renaissance often appears as a lofty slogan without practical manifestation. However, recent political events in West Africa--specifically Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali--have begun to lend substance to these mottos. Burkina Faso is at the forefront of a new wave of radical change in political culture and practice....
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Nigeria: Nigeria Daily - How Gumel in Jigawa Marks Eid-UL-Maulud Differently
[Daily Trust] Eid-ul-Maulud is celebrated across Nigeria with prayers and gatherings, but in Gumel, Jigawa State, it takes on a unique cultural form called Sallar Gani.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ghana: Afreximbank Defies Global Headwinds With Strong Half-Year Performance
[Ghanaian Times] Amid heightened geopolitical tensions, ongoing inflationary pressures, fluctuations in currency values, and stricter global financing conditions, the Afreximbank Group has achieved commendable results for the first half of the year (H1'2025).
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Migrant Found Guilty of Sex Assaults in England Amid Protests Over Asylum Hotel
Hadush Kebatu tried to kiss a young girl on a bench in Epping High Street while making ‘sexually explicit comments.’ On Thursday, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed that a 41-year-old migrant has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Epping, Essex of east England, following a series of protests outside a […]
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Mali: Mali Files ICJ Case Against Algeria Over Destruction of Military Drone
[RFI] Mali's transitional government says it has filed a case against Algeria at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbour of "premeditated destruction" of a Malian military reconnaissance drone in March.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Blood Moon this Sunday: What makes a total lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse makes the moon shine with all the sunrises and sunsets on Earth — at the same time. But how? The moon is in Earth's shadow! Here's what’s going on.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Relentless Hail and Rain in Wag Hemra Zone, Amhara Region Claim Lives, Devastate Vast Farmland
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Days of heavy hail and rain in the Wag Hemra Zone of the Amhara Regional State have left at least one person dead and destroyed more than 849 hectares of crops, according to farmers and local officials.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Sudan: Egypt, Sudan Reject Other Nile Basin Countries' Involvement in GERD Talks, Insist Tripartite Negotiations Only
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Egypt and Sudan have insisted that negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) should remain confined to the three riparian states and dismissed what they claimed were efforts to involve other Nile Basin countries.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Securing neodymium is a strategic imperative for America
This article, originally published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. Tesla CEO Elon Musktoldinvestors in April that the production of its Optimus humanoid robots had been affected by China’s export restrictions of rare earth magnets. That admission marks the clearest signal yet that China’s export controls on heavy rare-earth magnets are hitting high-tech US […] The post Securing neodymium is a...
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Ukraine Proposes New Format for Protecting Skies
Previously, Trump approved the sale of 3,350 air-launched Extended-Range Attack Munitions system missiles to Ukraine. On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine has proposed to the United States a new format for protecting Ukrainian airspace. RELATED: Europe Ready to Offer Security Guarantees to Ukraine: Macron “Ukraine has proposed a format for protecting our skies […]
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Liberia: Sharp Hike in Alien Work Permit Fees
[Liberian Observer] In a decisive policy shift aimed at tackling unemployment and reducing foreign dominance in the job market, the government has announced a sharp hike in alien work permit fees, tripling the annual cost from US$1,000 to US$3,000.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Mongolia Exits SCO Observer Status, Draws Closer to China and Russia
Mongolia declined to transition to a new “SCO partner” label. Instead, it’s emphasizing trilateral cooperation with China and Russia.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:UN chief hails ‘remarkable example’ of Papua New Guinea as he concludes historic trip
Speaking to journalists in the capital of Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Friday, UN chief António Guterres rounded off the first ever visit to the Pacific nation by a sitting Secretary-General, paying tribute to the country’s unbroken 50-year run as a multilingual democracy – which is now beset by major economic and environmental challenges.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:World News in Brief: Afghanistan quake latest, sexual violence in Haiti, WHO medicines update, deadly floods in Pakistan
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has released $10 million in response to the urgent need for food, water, shelter and other lifesaving provisions following this week’s devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Afghanistan.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:DR Congo crisis: Funding cuts curtail assistance to victims of sexual violence
Sexual violence is rife in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but urgently needed assistance for survivors has had to be halted as sweeping funding cuts bite, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on Friday.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:The missing half: The urgent need for more women’s representation in the media
Women make up half of the world’s population but receive only 26 per cent of media coverage, according to the latest UN-backed Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report, the world’s largest study on gender representation in news media.
Published on: September 05, 2025 | Source:Air pollution is on the rise – but not everywhere, says UN weather agency
As billions continue to breathe polluted air that causes more than 4.5 million premature deaths every year, UN climate experts on Friday highlighted how damaging microscopic smoke particles from wildfires play their part, travelling halfway across the world.
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