Turkey-Syria earthquake live news: Death toll tops 15,000

The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has risen to more than 15,000. At least 12,391 people have died in Turkey, according to officials, while at least 2,992 have been killed in Syria. The man who survived the Turkey earthquake, and his family who didn’t Reuters has this heartbreaking story from Turkey’s Hatay, where the…

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Libya’s political actors agree on full withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign fighters

Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) and liaison committees from Libya, Sudan and Niger approved the establishment of an integrated mechanism for joint coordination and data exchange to facilitate the full withdrawal of mercenaries and foreign fighters from the country. The agreement was announced on Wednesday by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL),…

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Uganda ends mandate of UN Human Rights Office

By URN The Government has terminated the operations of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Uganda.OHCHR, a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations…

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Masulita Children’s Home Transform Kids from Kampala Streets

By PCA- KCCA The children at Masulita are housed in six dormitories with each run by a Social Worker and House Parent. These also help the children with the spiritual development which is key in their growth and future life. “Through spiritual development, children learn to be aware of and comfortable with qualities such as…

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Putin’s Blue-eyed Man Visits West Africa in sign of deepening ties

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, on a one-day visit to Mali, has said Moscow will continue to help Bamako improve its military capabilities. Mali junta leaders want Russia’s help to battle an Islamist insurgency that remains entrenched despite years of fighting. Since taking control of Mali in two coups since August 2020, the military junta…

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African leaders commiserate with Turkey, Syria following deadly earthquakes

By Jerry Omondi & E K Benj African leaders have sent messages of commiseration to Türkiye and Syria following deadly earthquakes on Monday. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Türkiye’s southern province of Kahramanmaras at 4:17 a.m. local time (0117 GMT), followed by several aftershocks. A second major quake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck the same area again…

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Why are women less likely to survive cardiac arrest than men?

By Corrie Pelc — Fact checked byHannah Flynn Every year, about 6 million people globally die from sudden cardiac death caused by sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Scientists have been conducting SCA-related research through the ESCAPE-NET project for the past 5 years. Project research found primary care visits rose sharply in the weeks before a person…

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Corruption, brutality will attract hatred from Ugandans- Museveni to UPDF

President Museveni has warned the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) against emulating the old armies whose bad habits brewed anger and attracted hatred from citizens. “UPDF must be very careful not to adopt the habits of the old armies, like brutality and corruption. If you do that, people will hate you. We were able to…

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