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The election campaign for Algeria’s early presidential elections, scheduled for September 7, has officially begun. According to the Constitutional Council, three candidates are competing for the presidency. Incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is running as an independent candidate, while Yousef Aouchiche represents the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), and Cherif Boudflika stands for the Movement for Society and Peace (MSP). The campaign will focus on their respective platforms and visions for Algeria’s future as they vie for the role of head of state. The presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns by detailing their programs designed to “drive development and ensure security and stability…
Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old from the central Gaza Strip, the health ministry in Ramallah said.According to the United Nations, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from the territory’s wastewater in June.“Doctors suspected the presence of symptoms consistent with polio,”…
UN agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in the fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.The UN’s health and children’s agencies said they had drawn up detailed plans to reach children across the besieged Palestinian territory, starting later this month.But that would require pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said.They said they were planning two rounds of a vaccination campaign across the Gaza Strip, starting in late August, against type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2).Last month, it was announced that type…
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the Jordan-Syria border on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), it said.The earthquake, felt by residents across Syria and Lebanon, was revised from an earlier 5.2 magnitude.Syria’s National Earthquake Center said the tremor was felt by residents of Salamiyah city in western Syria, near where a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck late on Monday, causing panic and dozens of injuries but no casualties. Source: Arab News
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said in Beirut on Friday that Cairo will “make every possible effort to spare Lebanon and its brotherly people the woes of any uncalculated escalation.” Abdelatty condemned “all provocative policies, including the violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty.” He repeated Egypt’s rejection of “the Israeli aggression on Beirut’s southern suburb and the policy of assassinations.” Abdelatty added that the security and stability of Lebanon “is an Egyptian interest and an Arab interest that we are working on maintaining.” His talks in Beirut came two days after visits by US mediator Amos Hochstein and French Foreign Minister Stephane…
Forty-one Palestinian civilians who suffered various injuries in the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza today arrived in Malaysia for treatment. The Palestinians, aged between eight months and 62 years, were flown to Malaysian from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, onboard two Malaysian Air Force transport aircraft in implementation of the President of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim’s initiative to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. The injured were received by Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin, a host of Malaysian officials, Palestine’s ambassador to Malaysia Walid Abu Ali and Egypt’s ambassador to Malaysia Ragai Nasr, and were accompanied by 86 family…
China consistently aims to elevate its relations with Russia to unprecedented heights, the Chinese Foreign Ministry informed Sputnik. The diplomatic office reaffirmed that Beijing will grow its relationship with Moscow within the parameters established by the leaders of the two states and noted that this year marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Russia and China. “This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China and the opening of the Years of Culture of Russia and China”, it said. China is ready to cooperate with Russia in order, guided by the consensus reached…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this weekend to push forward a Gaza ceasefire deal as the United States tries to bridge the gaps in talks in the region, the State Department said.Blinken will leave Saturday and seek to “conclude the agreement for a ceasefire and release of hostages and detainees through the bridging proposal” presented Friday during talks in Doha by the United States, a State Department statement said.President Joe Biden earlier Friday said that “we are closer than we have ever been” to a ceasefire in the 10-month-old Gaza war after two days of…
Sokoto State government in partnership with USAID Nigeria State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity, to develop a set of revenue codes to ensure transparency in the state revenue generations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed its unwavering commitment to advancing and prospering the Nigerian capital market and the economy at large, in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
