ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 29, 2022 China’s ambassador to the UK has been summoned to the Foreign Office amid a diplomatic row over the arrest and alleged beating of a BBC journalist covering COVID protests in Shanghai. According to a UK government source, Zheng Zeguang has been called by ForeignContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 29, 2022 A small museum in south-east London has begun the official process of returning looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The Horniman Museum, which houses a collection of 72 treasured items that were taken by force from Benin City in 1897, officially handed over ownership ofContinue Reading
ShareBy ALuta News Nov. 21, 2022 Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert must pay the equivalent of around €17,000 ($17,550) in compensation to Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu for defamation, the court in Tel Aviv announced on Monday. Olmert, who had called Netanyahu and his family “mentally ill,” must also payContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 21, 2022 South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that former President Jacob Zuma should return to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. The court said the decision to release Zuma on early medical parole was unlawful. Zuma was sentenced inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 15, 2022 The Bangladeshi Government on Tuesday reported another eight deaths from dengue fever, bringing the total number of fatalities to 213 this year in the country. According to a report of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the death toll included one in June,Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 14, 2022 The accreditation of several western journalists have been revoked by the Ukrainian military following their reporting from the recently recaptured region of Kherson, officials said on Monday. Recently, some media representatives ignored the existing bans and warnings and started reporting from Kherson without theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 14, 2022 Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Monday sacked Charles Adu Boahen, the minister of state for finance, after allegations of impropriety were circulated by a well-known Ghanaian investigative journalist. A statement from the presidency states that the president fired Adu Boahen after being made awareContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 13, 2022 Bill and Melinda Foundation says its new commitment of 1.4 billion dollars to Africa, including Nigeria is to spur the region-led innovation to build a pipeline of climate-smart agriculture projects for smallholder farmers. Mr Enock Chikava, Interim Director, Agricultural Development of the foundation statedContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 11, 2022 The Federal Government has launched a youth driven tree-planting project tagged ‘Project 250k’ to fight the impacts of climate change in the country. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare disclosed this on Thursday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on the sidelines of theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 10, 2022 Costa Rica on Wednesday in San Jose showed they were set for the World Cup after beating Nigeria’s Super Eagles 2-0 in a tune-up game for the Qatar tournament. Due to begin their trip to the 2022 tournament in Qatar later on Thursday, OscarContinue Reading
