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Displacement: Stakeholders Calls For Action as Nigeria Hosts Over 3.5 Million IDPs
Nigeria is currently hosting over 3.5 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and more than 138,000 refugees and asylum seekers, according to the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI). The figures...

Tasting the continent: a pan-African journey at Épicure
Eat your way around Africa: Épicure is a pan-African fine dining restaurant in the Joburg suburb of Rosebank (left) where Fathi ‘Chef Coco’ Reinarhz redefines food from the continent. On a sunny yet cold Friday afternoon, I found myself in a...

Pakistan urges global community to hold Israel accountable for Iran aggression
Strongly condemning the unjustified and illegitimate aggression by Israel against Iran, Pakistan on Thursday urged the international community and the United Nations to bear the responsibility to uphold international law, stop this aggression...

'Coming to Jesus in Large Numbers': Brave Missionaries See Big Results in Deadly Corner of Africa
N'DJAMENA, Chad – In one of the most perilous regions of the world, an American missionary is quietly building an army – not with weapons, but with prayer. Carole Ward has made it her life's mission to follow God's call and train fearless...

Pakistan urges international community, UN to hold Israel accountable for aggression against Iran
Strongly condemning the unjustified and illegitimate aggression by Israel against Iran, Pakistan on Thursday urged the international community and the United Nations to bear the responsibility to uphold international law, stop this aggression...

Pakistan says Iran has a right to self-defense against Israeli aggression
ISLAMABAD: Strongly condemning the unjustified and illegitimate aggression by Israel against Iran, Pakistan on Thursday urged the international community and the United Nations to bear the responsibility to uphold international law, stop this...

Maroc Telecom raises $330 million to boost its 5G investment
Morocco’s leading telecom operator, Maroc Telecom, has raised $330 million (3 billion dirhams) in its first-ever private bond issuance on the domestic market. According to the company, on Tuesday, the bond, with a two-year maturity and bullet...

Boko Haram insurgents killed as soldiers foil attack on military facility in Borno
Local sources, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES, said over 500 insurgents attacked the naval base at the Lake Chad Fish Dam from about 2 a.m. until daytime, initially overpowering naval personnel at the base. However, reinforcements from Baga, a town in...

UNICEF Executive Director concludes three-day mission to Chad, meeting with some of the 700,000 children displaced across border from Sudan
N’DJAMENA, 23 June 2025 – UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell today concluded a three-day mission to Chad, warning of the worsening crisis affecting children in the eastern part of the country that has seen the arrival of hundreds of...

Gov Buni rallies unity on security, climate resilience in Lake Chad Basin region
In an effort to demonstrate firm leadership and regional commitment, Yobe State governor and chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum, LCBGF, Mai Mala Buni, has rallied regional unity on security, climate resilience, and economic...

MSF tackles logistical challenges to vaccinate 500 000 people against diphtheria
On a quiet Tuesday evening, an ambulance pulls into Ati provincial hospital in Chad’s central Batha region. Inside are four members of a family with symptoms of diphtheria – an entirely preventable disease that has resurged across the country in...

Israel-Iran conflict: Pakistan, other Muslim states call for ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: A number of Muslim-majority countries including Pakistan have categorically rejected and condemned Israel’s recent attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, intensified since the 13th June 2025, calling for an immediate ceasefire to...

Bringing the weight of war: the head of Unicef meets some of the 700,000 children refugees from Sudan who cross Chad
In neighboring Chad, children represent 61% of the 860,000 Sudanese refugees and 68% of 274,000 Chadiens returnees – or more than 700,000 young lives uprooted by violence. Chad, already one of the poorest countries in the world, has the fourth...

Maroc Telecom Raises $300 Million in First Private Bond Issuance
Marrakech – Maroc Telecom has successfully completed its first private bond issuance on the Moroccan market, raising MAD 3 billion ($300 million) from institutional investors. The operation marks a key benchmark in the telecom giant’s financial...

Ludwig Kaiser breaks silence after returning to WWE TV for the first time in days
Ludwig Kaiser finally returned to WWE TV on this week's episode of Monday Night RAW. He hasn't been in action since the May 5 episode of Main Event, where he defeated Tyler Bate. Chad Gable was involved in a heated backstage confrontation with...

Holding the powerful to account: War crimes and the new global reckoning
The world is on the brink of war again. War crimes and massacres, genocides are coming to characterise our modern world. Humanity is in the deepest crisis it has ever seen. German critic Walter Benjamin, who died in 1940, once said: “There is no...

Foreign Ministers of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, UAE and other countries issue joint statement
Islamabad, Hilal Ahmad, June 17, AZERTAC In light of the rapidly evolving regional developments and the unprecedented escalation of tensions in the Middle East—particularly due to the ongoing military aggression of Israel against Iran—the Foreign...

Arab, Islamic countries affirm necessity of halting Israeli hostilities against Iran: Statement
Doha, Qatar: In light of the rapidly evolving regional developments and the unprecedented escalation of tensions in the Middle East, particularly owing to the ongoing military aggression of Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Foreign...
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Israel-Iran ceasefire: How Qatar has emerged as a master negotiator in West Asia
The ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran left many people shocked and relieved. The deal was announced by US President Donald Trump on social media as a “complete and total ceasefire”. “On the assumption that everything works as it should, which...

Chad’s detained opposition leader ends hunger strike
N’Djamena – Chad opposition leader and former prime minister Succès Masra, who has been in custody for more than a month, has ended his nearly week-long hunger strike, his lawyers said Monday. “President Masra, physically weakened but morally...