After his ouster from the government because of a successful no confidence motion in the Pakistan’s National Assembly, Imran Khan has claimed that the US worked to oust him, over displeasure over his foreign policy choices, that lean towards China and Russia. He also claimed that he wanted to make Pakistan’s foreign policy independent, to pursue Pakistan’s interests alone.
The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine seems to divide Africa as which party should Africa support and why? Many of the African leaders have decided to remain neutral while few have openly showed their side. Despite countries stances, the African Union (AU) condemned Moscow’s invasion and called for an “immediate ceasefire.”
The Arab news agency Al Jazeera reported today what no Western news agency considered important: “Families fearful as UN reduces food aid to northwest Syria.” A World Food Program (WFP) spokesperson was quoted as explaining that for “For northwest Syria this means, starting May 2022, the [food] basket will reduce from 1,300 to 1,170 [kilocalories] per person,” which will affect about 1.3 million people who are a fraction of the…
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist known for his opposing articles against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 at the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, where he entered for marriage procedures. With a surprise decision, the Istanbul 11th High Criminal Court, which is looking at this murder case, decided to transfer the file to Saudi Arabia.
On April 5, the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan on its Internet portal reported: The activities of the underground cell of the "women's wing" of the Religious Extremist Organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir" have been suppressed. The State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic, as part of the identification and suppression of religious extremist and terrorist groups,
It has been a week of crises in East Africa, characterised by shortages of fuel and rising prices of consumer goods, as the region continued to shake off Covid-19 blues to revive state economies.Many areas have recently experienced biting fuel shortages and, where the commodity is available, the price has risen to prohibitive levels.