Launch was detected by Japan and South Korea and comes after six countries urged Pyongyang to end “destabilising” actions. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0632 EAT on 11 January 2022. North Korea fired what may have been a ballistic missile on Tuesday morning, Japan and South Korea said, less than a week after Pyongyang…
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US and Russia meet in Geneva as Ukraine still in Chaos.
By faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0622 EAT on 11 January 2022. Russia and the United States gave no sign that they had narrowed their differences on Ukraine and wider European security in talks in Geneva, as Moscow repeated demands that Washington says it cannot accept. Russia has massed troops near Ukraine’s border while demanding…
Hundreds Killed, Thousands arrested in Kazakhstan.
Fuel price rises sparked the unrest a week ago in provincial areas but the violence quickly reached large cities. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated On 9 Jan 2022 at 2023 EAT More than 160 people were killed and 5,000 arrested in Kazakhstan after the riots that shook Central Asia’s largest country over the past week….
Ahmaud Arbery murderers sentenced to life in prison
A white father and son convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury found Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour, William Bryan, guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Bryan also received the maximum penalty of life, but was offered the…
Russia troops arrive in Kazakhstan
Street battles resume in the country’s largest city, Almaty, as Russia sends in paratroopers to quell countrywide uprising. By Faith Barbra Namagembe Updated at 0720 EAT on 6 Jan 2022 Fresh violence erupted in Kazakhstan’s largest city on Thursday as Russia rushed in paratroopers to put down a countrywide uprising in one of Moscow’s closest…
Death toll raises as several people are killed in Sudan.
By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 2330 EAT on 6 Jan 2022. Security forces kill three protesters as thousands gather across Sudan in first rallies since Abdalla Hamdok’s resignation as prime minister. Sudanese security forces have killed at least three anti-coup protesters, medics and an activist have said, as thousands of people rallied across Sudan…
Novak Djokovic denied entry into Australia.
Authorities say tennis star ‘failed to provide’ necessary evidence for vaccine exemption amid surging COVID pandemic. By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0732 EAT on 6 January 2022. Australia has cancelled Novak Djokovic‘s visa and denied entry to the men’s number one tennis player, the country’s border agency announced, saying the sportsman “failed to provide appropriate…
Macron Warns about unvaccinated people in France.
By Faith Barbara Namagembe Updated at 0800 EAT on 5 January 2022 French President Emmanuel Macron has warned he intends to make life difficult for people in France who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. “I really want to hassle them, and we will continue to do this – to the end,” he told France’s…
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