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The World Bank estimates that 64 million people in Nigeria did not have an account with a bank or other reputable financial institutions as of 2022. But those who do are becoming victims of electronic fraud against banks, or e-fraud.
United Nations Security Council meeting is briefed on threat to international peace and security by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu
According to Benghazi based Prime Minister Osama Hammad, the Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that completely submerged large neighborhoods in the east of North African nation. During a Monday television appearance, Hammad said, “The number of people killed exceeded 2,000, and entire neighborhoods were swept away by the (flood) water.” One of the worst-affected regions was the port city of Derna in eastern Libya, which was declared a disaster zone after two dams there collapsed and large parts of it were submerged, cutting off communications and electricity.
To raise funds for ambulances on the front lines in Ukraine, a runner has finished a 50-day ultramarathon from Amsterdam to Kyiv. Duth National Boas Kragtwik completed his 2,500-kilometer run in Kyiv, where reporter Lesia Bakalets was at the finishing line.
City workers man their posts at a firehouse and post office near the front lines as Russia alters in on the city of Kupiansk in the north of Ukraine’s war zone and retreats from cities in the south, but all of them want to find safety away from the war.
The border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed as a result of deadly clashes between the two country’s security forces, leaving thousands of Travellers and hundreds of trucks carrying goods stranded for a third day close to the Pakistani border town of Torkham.
The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, briefs the UN Security Council meeting about the Syrian conflict
Sudanese children at a refugee camp in eastern Chad say that Janjaweed rebels in Darfur have made them orphaned in recent months. Reporter Henry Wilkins speaks to children who are left behind in a foreign country with little help as media and rights organisations continue to report on atrocities.
After a series of deadly attacks by al-Shabab terrorists, hundreds of nonlocal teachers in Kenya’s northeast are demanding transfers out of the region, which is largely Muslim causing an education crisis in the country. Schools reopened August 28, but most students have not yet resumed classes.
At the closing of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Krösi, who presided over the assembly, handed the gavel to Dennis Francis, who would preside over the assembly’s upcoming seventy-eighth session