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April 02, 2024
Gaza: UN aid teams still waiting for Israeli green light to relieve stricken northern hospital
DAKAR — Few political turnarounds can match the last month in Senegal.Just over two weeks ago, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was a little-known opposition leader languishing in jail, detained without trial on charges including inciting insurrection, who had never held elected office.One week ago, he defeated the governing party’s candidate, Amadou Ba, in the country’s presidential election, winning 54% in the first round.On Tuesday, the 44-year-old is set to be sworn in as the fifth president of Senegal and become Africa’s youngest elected head of state.In a region where a large majority of the population are under 30, his victory offers hope to those young people frustrated by a lack of economic opportunities, with old elites seemingly clinging to power.Faye’s spectacular rise is a...
April 02, 2024
Faye: Senegal election offers hope to frustrated young Africans
April 02, 2024
Sunak backs JK Rowling’s views on new hate crime law
April 02, 2024
Iran vows revenge after Israeli strike on Syria consulate in deepening Middle East crisis
CARACAS — Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region, Reuters reported.Satellites registered more than 30,200 fire points in Venezuela from January to March, the highest level for that period since records started in 1999, according to Brazil’s Inpe research agency, which monitors all of South America.That includes fires in the Amazon, as well as the country’s other forests and grasslands.Man-made fires that are often set to clear land for agriculture are spreading out of control thanks to high temperatures and low rainfall in northern South America, as well as a lack of prevention planning, researchers say.Scientists blame the drought on climate change and El Niño,...
April 02, 2024
Venezuela battles record wildfires worsened by Amazon drought
April 02, 2024
Trump posts $175m bond in New York fraud case
April 02, 2024
Tiny Sri Lankan island sparks political row in India
April 02, 2024
Cocaine bricks: Illicit drug packages wash up on Sydney beaches
April 02, 2024
Aid group suspends operations in Gaza after worker deaths
April 02, 2024
Child, 13, wounds three in Finland school shooting
