Cyclone Chido killed at least 120 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said Monday, up 26 from a previous toll. The cyclone, which devastated the French island territory of Mayotte before hitting the African mainland, also destroyed 110,000 homes in Mozambique, officials said. It comes as the southern …

US President, Joe Biden, signed a funding bill on Saturday, averting a Christmas-time government shutdown after negotiations in Congress went down to the wire overnight. Last-minute legislative wrangling was brought about by incoming president Donald Trump, who along with influential billionaire Elon Musk, pressured Republicans to abandon an earlier bipartisan funding compromise. Lawmakers then spent several days trying to hammer …

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Saturday condemned the “terrible, insane” car-ramming attack on a crowded Christmas market that killed five people and injured more than 200. Police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi psychiatry doctor at the scene Friday, next to the battered SUV that had ploughed through the festive crowd leaving a trail of carnage and bloodied casualties. A sombre Scholz, …

Thousands of workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across in the United States, have on Thursday morning, embarked on a country-wide strike as part of efforts to force the e-commerce giant into a labour agreement, targeting the holiday shopping rush. According to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents a small portion of 10,000 workers at …

The death toll from Cyclone Chido in Mozambique has climbed to 45, the National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management, INGD, confirmed on Wednesday. The powerful cyclone made landfall in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province on Sunday, bringing winds of up to 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour) and torrential rainfall of 250 millimeters (10 inches) within 24 …

Pope Francis escaped two assassination attempts on his life during his historic trip to Iraq in March 2021. This revelation was part of excerpts from his forthcoming autobiography published Tuesday by Italian media. The pontiff’s Vatican security detail received an urgent warning from the British secret services, Francis wrote. “A woman packed with explosives, a young suicide bomber, was heading …

A senior Russian General Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov has been killed in Moscow following an explosion of a bomb hidden in an electric scooter. Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed on Tuesday that the development happened in the early hours of Tuesday. According to CNN, Kirillov, who led Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, was targeted outside an apartment building on …

President Bola Tinubu has urged West African leaders to draw inspiration from Ghana’s recent peaceful elections as a model of democratic maturity and commitment to national unity. At the opening of the 66th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS on Sunday in Abuja, President Tinubu lauded President Nana Akufo-Addo and the people of Ghana for the resounding success of their recent presidential …

For the first time in nearly two decades, Nigeria has fully met its financial obligations to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), paying 100 per cent of its community levy. The payment, totaling N84 billion and $54 million, covers Nigeria’s contributions for 2023 and extends through July 2024. The announcement was made by the President of the ECOWAS …

Georgian ex-footballer turned far-right politician Mikheil Kavelashvili is set to become Tbilisi’s next figurehead president in an indirect election Saturday, denounced as “illegitimate” by the current pro-EU leader. Picked by the governing Georgian Dream party as a loyalist, the former forward for English Premier League champions Manchester City is known for his expletive-laden parliament speeches and tirades against government critics …