ShareBy Aluta News Aug 14, 2021 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said there were 42,210 registered refugees and asylum-seekers currently in Libya. So far in 2021, a total of 20,799 refugees and immigrants have been rescued at sea and returned to Libya by the LibyanContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 14, 2021 The investigative judge charged with overseeing the multinational probe into last month’s shocking assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise has quit the case. Judge Mathieu Chanlatte recused himself on Friday, just four days after being handed the case, and two days after one ofContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 12, 2021 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says young people are on the frontlines of the struggle to build a better future, calling on them to ‘seat at the table’ to lead the struggle for better future. Guterres said this in his message on Thursday to markContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 12, 2021 Pupils and teachers in some primary schools in the Ghanaian capital had raised over 15,000 Ghana cedis (about 2,494 U.S. dollars) to help a school girl diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The Ga East educational directorate presented the amount to Joyce Owusu, aContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 12, 2021 Voters in southern African nation of Zambia, headed to the polls on Thursday to elect the president and members of the National Assembly. The voting came at a challenging time for the copper-rich nation, which was currently struggling with a severe economic crisis, politicalContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 11, 2021 Sudan on Wednesday said it would extradite defendants wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), including former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, Foreign Minister Mariam al-Mahdi. The state news agency Suna said the aim was to bring justice for the victims of the war inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 11, 2021 Environment Ministry spokesman Romeo Muyunda on Wednesday said Namibia auctioned 57 wild elephants raising 5.9 million Namibian dollars (400,000 dollars). Muyunda said the elephants sold were among 170 put on tender in December 2020. “A total of 15 elephants will be captured and remainContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 10, 2021 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said he would resign effective in two weeks because of a sexual harassment scandal that has crippled his administration. The announcement of his resignation came in a live stream from his Manhattan office minutes after his lawyerContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 10, 2021 Scotland’s health secretary and his wife on Tuesday begun legal action against a nursery they alleged discriminated against their daughter by refusing her a place. The couple’s lawyer, Aamer Anwar, said in a statement that his office served papers on Little Scholars Day NurseryContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 10, 2021 South Korea reported 2,641 more cases of COVID-19 variants for the past week, bringing the total number of such cases to 10,766, the health authorities said on Tuesday. Among the new cases found, 1, 242 were imported from overseas while the remaining 2,399 wereContinue Reading