South Korea’s military has reported that North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Wednesday morning. Seoul authorities said the missiles were fired in a space of under an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang. This happened just a day after US President Joe Biden left the region after a trip where he promised to bolster measures to deter ...
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On Sunday, a top official from the United Nations (UN) the currently active M23 militia force in DRC attacks on peacekeepers. These happened in the eastern part of the country that is currently troubled. Assistant Secretary-General Bintou Keita’s statement came after DR Congo’s army carried out an attack against the group on Thursday. The statement condemned the attack on both ...
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Former Somali president Sheikh Hassan Mohamud has been voted back into power by legislators in the country’s Parliament. He defeated the incumbent, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Mohamud served as the president of the war-torn country in the Horn of Africa between 2012-2017. In the tightly contested election that had over 36 candidates, Mohamud garnered 165 votes which were sufficient for ...
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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has called the country’s rapidly spreading Covid-19 outbreak a “great disaster”. He called for an all-out battle to tackle the spread of the virus during an emergency meeting on Saturday. It comes after officials announced the first confirmed cases on Thursday – although experts believe the virus has likely been circulating for some time. There ...
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The UN Security Council is expected to hold another public meeting on Thursday this week. The meeting is concerned about the war in Ukraine, in the light of the deteriorating humanitarian situation. France and Mexico requested the Security Council to hold it on the 16th since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24. It is part of an effort by ...
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