The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years.
Read more: Horn of Africa faces most ‘catastrophic’ food crisis in decades – WHO
Wang Xiaopjuan, a Member of the Standing Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) Yantai Committee, has called for deeper relations between China and other developing countries.
Read more: China calls for deeper relations with developing countries— Official
Suspected Islamist militants on Friday attacked the main military base where Mali’s interim president lives outside the capital Bamako, but the armed forces said they had repelled the assault and had the situation under control.
Read more: Militants attack Mali’s main military base, situation ‘under control’
Heavy Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv overnight and early on Sunday, killing the owner of one of the country’s largest grain producing and exporting companies, the local governor said.
Read more: Russia hits southern Ukraine city, killing grain exporter – Governor
Britain will send hundreds of drones, anti-tank weapons, and artillery guns to Ukraine in the coming weeks to help fend off the Russian invasion, according to a top official.
Read more: Britain to send Ukraine fresh weaponry to fend off Putin’s invasion
Read more: Zelensky is confident of victory as he marks Ukraine’s Statehood Day
The UN Children’s Fund on Wednesday received $2.7 million from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), to implement the maternal nutrition counseling and acute intervention program in the North-East.
Read more: UNICEF gets $2.7m Swedish fund for water, nutrition in North-East
Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger has advised Ukraine and the West not to cede any Ukrainian territory occupied since the start of the war to Russia in any future peace negotiations to end the conflict.
Read more: Ukraine should cede no territory to Russia – Henry Kissinger
A U.S.-based Nigerian historian and professor of Africana Studies, Apollos Nwauwa, has hailed Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President for his outstanding legacy, especially for standing against xenophobia.
Read more: U.S.-based don hails Nelson Mandela, condemns xenophobia in South Africa
