Headlines- A strike on Sunday evening at Riyadh's international airport has resulted in more injuries, and the number of fatalities has increased since over a dozen people were killed at the main aviation facility the day before.
- The Ansar Allah Houthis and Yemeni government forces are engaged in fierce fighting over the vital city of Taiz.
- A human rights group reported on Sunday that airstrikes targeting artisanal gold miners in a disputed border area between Sudan and Egypt had killed at least 72 workers.
- Pope Leo XIV said on Sunday that he will have surgery in the "next few days" after medical professionals found a nodule on his lung.
- The reform agenda of nationalist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, which the opposition has called "authoritarian," suffered a setback when Slovenians narrowly rejected a government bill in a referendum on Sunday.
- After his social media posts were purportedly blocked on the company's platforms, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused tech giant Meta of meddling in the election on Saturday.
Month: August 2019
South Africa Hosts World’s Largest Marimba...
South Africa hosted the world’s largest marimba and steelpan festival July 27-28, with nearly 2,000 musicians from around Africa, including Botswana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The Education Africa International Marimba and Steelpan Festival prides itself for enabling disadvantaged and disabled people to compete on equal footing with other artists
Nigerian Court’s Labeling Muslim Sect “Terrorists”...
Tension between a Nigerian Shiite Muslim group and authorities is growing after a court last week granted permission to label the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) a terrorist organization
Concern Raised About Myanmar NGO Worker...
The Myanmar office of the global humanitarian and children’s rights organization Plan International issued the brief statement about the condition of Ye Lin Naing, but declined to elaborate, saying that the organization did not yet know all the details of the shooting and that it was contacting the authorities involved in the incident