Global food prices rose for the first time in seven months in March, with a dramatic increase in prices for vegetable oil setting the pace, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The FAO said its broad Food Price Index had climbed 1.1 percent in March compared to a month earlier….
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on drug abuse following calls on his government to crack down on the rising use of a cheap and sometimes deadly synthetic drug known as kush.The highly addictive mix of marijuana, tentanyl and tramadol has caused hundreds of deaths and psychiatrically damaged scores of…
The United Kingdom government has increased the general salary threshold for those arriving in the UK on a Skilled Worker visa from £26,200 to £38,700. According to the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, the minimum wage increased by 48 per cent to cut migration and put British workers first in force. Changes that are now in…
The 44-year-old had never before held an elected office. However, several African leaders attended the ceremony in the new town of Diamniadio, near the capital Daka Mr Faye was released from prison less than two weeks before the March 24 election, along with popular opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, following a political amnesty announced by outgoing…
The number of children facing severe drought conditions across the Horn of Africa has increased by more than 40 per cent in the space of two months, warns UNICEF. Between February and April, the number of children facing the impact of drought including acute hunger, malnutrition and thirst increased from 7.25 million to at least…
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Faye will be taking over as the country’s fifth president by the outgoing President Macky Sall, who is stepping down after a second term. Bassirou Diomaye Faye (born 1980) is a…
A gangster-turned-politician has died of cardiac arrest in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said on Thursday. Mukhtar Ansari, the 63-year-old, five-time lawmaker from the state, had been in jail in since 2005. The circumstances of his death are disputed by his family who say he was given a “poisonous substance” in jail….
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who pioneered theories in behavioural economics, Daniel Kahneman, has passed on at 90. He died ‘peacefully’ on Wednesday, March 27 according to a release from Princeton University, whose faculty he had joined in 1993. His cause of death was not provided by the university. Kahneman wrote the best-selling book Thinking, Fast and…
American entrepreneur and crypto king, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in defrauding users of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In a federal courtroom in lower Manhattan, United States District Judge Lewis Kaplan called the defense argument misleading, logically flawed, and speculative. Kaplan said Bankman-Fried had obstructed justice…
Google says it has blocked over 5.5 billion adverts and suspended 12.7 million others for violating its policies. The search engine giant also said in a statement on Wednesday that it had removed adverts from over 2.1 billion pages. “Billions of people around the world rely on Google products to provide relevant and trustworthy information,…
