Le Prince Charles sera à Kigali, fin juin, pour assister au Sommet du Commonwealth. Le Rwanda semble jouir des faveurs du Royaume-Uni, qui a signé, le 14 avril, un accord pour y déporter des migrants illégaux.
Plus de 72.000 personnes ont fui leurs maisons en huit jours dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) pour échapper aux combats entre l’armée et les rebelles du M23, a alerté vendredi le Haut commissariat aux réfugiés (HCR).
Le sommet des chefs d’État de l’Union africaine s’ouvre pour deux jours ce vendredi 27 mai dans la capitale équato-guinéenne.
Le sommet d’aujourd’hui s’ouvre alors que la crise humanitaire s’est aggravée ces dernières années. Sur 1,4 milliard d’habitants en Afrique, environ 282 millions souffrent de sous-alimentation. C’est 49 millions d’Africains de plus qu’en 2019, selon l’agence des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO).
Enraged by the Greek premier’s remarks to US Congress against arms sales to Turkey, Erdogan denounces Greece, along with Sweden and Finland, for supporting terrorism.
Opening up a new battlefront with NATO allies, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced late Monday that he had “written off” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for lobbying the US Congress against military sales to Turkey.
Islamic State leader Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi has been reportedly arrested in Istanbul, but the news has not yet been independently confirmed.
The Islamic State’s most recent leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, was captured in a raid in Istanbul, according to media reports Thursday.
The State Department is not removing Gamaat Islamiya from the terror list because it is defunct. Just the opposite. It’s being removed from the terror list because the Biden administration expects it to be active again. And wants to be able to provide support for it.
Russia has not only been modernizing its nuclear triad; it has also been developing new types of nuclear systems….
Russia, of course, is not the only nuclear threat to the United States. China has accelerated its nuclear buildup to the extent that Admiral Charles Richard, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee last April, “For the first time in our history, the nation is on a trajectory to face two nuclear-capable, strategic peer adversaries at the same time, who must be deterred differently. We can no longer assume the risk of strategic deterrence failure in conflict will always remain low.”
As so often in the past, Lithuania has openly declared what many believe but are unwilling for one reason or another to say. The Lithuanian parliament in a unanimous vote declared Russia to be a terrorist state and its war in Ukraine an act of genocide against the population there, actions for which Russian leaders, including Putin, must stand trial.
He said: “Making concessions failed between 2014 and 2022, ultimately bringing us all the biggest war in Europe since the Second World War.” However, he insisted that this war is not a “copy-paste of any previous wars”, highlighting that every war is special.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing residents of two Ukrainian regions, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya, parts of which have been occupied by Russian forces during Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, to obtain Russian citizenship.