By Aluta News Jan. 10, 2022 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to withdraw all its ambassadors from Mali and close land and air borders between member-countries and Mali. This resolution was conveyed in a communiqué issued after an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority ofContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 9, 2022 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is a strong resolve by the ECOWAS and the international community not to accept coups d’etat or any other form of unconstitutional change of government. Osinbajo spoke with newsmen on Sunday in Accra after participating at an ExtraordinaryContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 9, 2022 The United Nations said on Saturday it would invite Sudanese military leaders, political parties and other groups to take part in discussions aimed at ending a crisis unleashed by a coup in October. UN mediation in the weeks after the coup succeeded in reinstatingContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 7, 2022 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, on Thursday condemned deadly airstrike on the Mai Aini refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia that left three refugees dead. Grandi reiterated UNHCR’s call for all parties to the conflict to “respect the rights of allContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 7, 2022 UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says 55 journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, noting that impunity against journalists is alarmingly widespread. Fifty-five journalists and media professionals were killed in 2021, according to latest UN data released on Thursday, with nearlyContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 7, 2022 World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday renewed its call for vaccine equity and solidarity to defeat COVID-19 pandemic as the highest number of cases were reported last week across the globe. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, told journalists in Geneva at his first press briefingContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 6, 2022 Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa has proclaimed March 26 as the date for long-awaited by-elections to fill vacant seats in the National Assembly and various local authorities across the country. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had in 2020, suspended the holding of the by-elections inContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 6, 2022 Anti-vaccine campaigners who spread “mumbo jumbo” and “nonsense” on social media are completely wrong, British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said on Thursday. Speaking to broadcasters during a visit to a vaccination centre in Northampton, he said a “voluntary approach” to vaccination will remain, amidContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 6, 2022 Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA) on Thursday, expressed shock over alleged killing of a Nigerian, Mr Kingsley Ezeh, by the South African Police. President General of NICASA, Benjamin Okoli, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that Ezeh”s death on Tuesday, was circumstantialContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 5, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden says the country has given out over 70 million booster shots, urging America residents who are eligible for booster doses to get them as soon as possible. Biden, who disclosed this before a briefing with his COVID-19 advisers at theContinue Reading