By : Lloyd Mahachi U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a remmision on Tuesday for essential humanitarian assistance during a 90-day halt in foreign aid while Washington undertakes a review, according to a State Department memo. Only a few hours after taking office a week ago, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the pause so foreign aid assistance could be reviewed to see if they align with his “America First” framework. The enforcement issued on Tuesday for life-saving aid comes after Rubio initially gave an exemption on Friday for emergency food assistance. Rubio defined critical humanitarian assistance as core…
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By : Lloyd Mahachi Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa, has declared that the time has come to deal with the nation’s ongoing devastating political crisis, which he argues is hindering the country’s innovation and transformation . In a statement released on Tuesday, Chamisa emphasized the critical need to restore trust and order between the government and the people of Zimbabwe in order to foster national unity and the country’s growth. “There is no government that can ever prosper, succeed, or be functionally effective when the majority of the citizens are not in agreement with it,” Chamisa stated. He…
By : Lloyd Mahachi UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday discussed over the phone with the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda to negotiate the escalating conflict in the DRC, a UN spokesman commented. When asked about the information concerning the conversation, Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for the UN secretary-general, replied at a regular briefing, “The secretary-general obviously discussed the situation in the DRC, and he’s been very clear both publicly and privately for the need for Rwanda to cease support to the March 23 Movement and withdraw from the DRC.” The M23 rebels…
By : Lloyd Mahachi Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially quit the West African bloc Ecowas on 29 January 2024, severing ties after years of strained relations that have reshaped trade routes in the Sahel region. The three nations are strengthening their cooperation through the Alliance of Sahel States, announcing plans to create a joint military force of 5,000 troops to fight terrorism. Dubbed “Sahelexit” by some commentators, the decision was first announced a year ago by the countries’ military leaders. They will also introduce a shared passport system to allow free movement between their territories.Foreign ministers from the…
By : Lloyd Mahachi Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been subjected to a judicial investigation over Italy’s surprise release of a Libyan citizen who had been on the wanted list for war crimes by the International Criminal Court . In a video message shared on social media on Tuesday, Meloni said she was suspected by prosecutors of corruption and funding and supporting a crime. Osama Najim also known as Almasri is the head of Libya’s judicial police and the director of an infamous detention centre in Mitiga, near Tripoli the capital of Libya. Mr Najim was…
By : Lloyd Mahachi Harsh weather conditions caused by climate change fueled hunger and food shortages across Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new United Nations report. Extreme weather driven crop prices in multiple countries within the region, the report which was written by several UN agencies including the World Food Program (WFP), says. Hot weather conditions and drought, intensified by the El Niño effect, raised the prices of corn in Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, while heavy rains in Ecuador caused a 32 to percentage increase in wholesale prices. …
By : Lloyd Mahachi Gunfire spreads out across parts of Goma, the largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), hours after the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said they had seized it despite the call for an end to the offensive by the United Nations Security Council. The news comes after reports emerged that DRC and Rwandan troops exchanged fire on Monday along their shared border, risking a rapid ignition of the conflict amid the advancement of the M23 fighters. In a statement posted on X formerly Twitter, DRC government’s spokesman Patrick Muyaya…
By : Lloyd Mahachi United States President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a drastic step firing more than a dozen justice department lawyers who worked on two criminal cases against him. The firing took place after acting Attorney General James McHenry concluded that they could not “be trusted to faithfully implement the president’s agenda because of their pivotal role in prosecuting the president”. The lawyers were part of the former special counsel led by Jack Smith which investigated Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election defeat. …
By : Lloyd Mahachi A group of Zimbabwean liberation war veterans has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to leave his office. The veterans, joined forces with the ruling Zanu-PF Party, accuse the president of failing to do his duties. In a press conference streamed online, Blessed Runesu Geza, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s 1960s and 70s liberation war and a member of Zanu-PF’s central committee, called for the president to step down from his office. Geza accused Mnangagwa of failing to live up to the promises he made in 2017 when he came to power. He added,…
By : Lloyd Mahachi Nigerian musician, Innocent Ujah Idibia, popularly known as Tuface, has confirmed his separation from his wife, Annie Macaulay Idibia. In a surprising turn of events, Tuface took to his Instagram account on Sunday evening to dispel rumors of his account being hacked. Earlier in the day, Tuface had posted a message on his Instagram page, announcing his separation from Annie. However, the post was quickly deleted, and a subsequent post claimed that his account had been hacked. But Tuface has now confirmed that the initial post was genuine, and he and Annie are indeed separated.…