West African leaders scheduled a summit for Thursday (10 August) to discuss the Niger junta’s rejection of an ultimatum to reinstate the ousted president, as the United States sent a top official to Niamey to push for a return to democracy.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had told leaders of the 26 July coup to stand down by Sunday or face a possible military intervention.
But the junta, under self-declared head of state General Abdourahamane Tiani, former
To commemorate World Breastfeeding Week, which was the first week of August, a group of male health care leaders at Covenant Health participated in a “simulated breastfeeding challenge,” as FOX34 reported.
Covenant Health is a Christian health network located in Lubbock, Texas.
For four days, the men simulated the act of breastfeeding every three hours for 20-minute stints, the report stated. They summarized their daily experiences in video diaries.
The goal was to get an idea of the
Stocking up on rice, fleeing the capital by bus or vowing to defend their new military leaders, many in Niger have been bracing this past weekend as a deadline imposed by a 15-member bloc of West African nations for the country’s junta to relinquish power was set to expire on Sunday.
After mutinous soldiers detained Niger’s democratically elected president on July 26, the bloc, the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, gave them an ultimatum: Restore democracy or
Pressure is mounting on Niger’s putschists hours ahead of a deadline later Sunday set by a group of West African countries for the military to step down or face a possible military intervention.
ECOWAS, a bloc of 15 Western African countries, issued its ultimatum after Niger’s top military officers announced on July 27 that they had overthrown the country’s President Mohamed Bazoum, who was democratically elected in 2021. According to France 24, the deadline expires on Sunday evening; Reuters reported
Meghan Markle may be known for her expensive taste in fashion and jewellery – but the Duchess opted for a surprisingly low-key pair of earrings for a call to surprise young leaders yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are living in their $14 million California mansion having stepped back from royal duty, appeared in a video for Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund (RTYPF).
The couple’s organisation, the Archewell Foundation, is on the advisory board for the launch, which
A south London chaplain has been caught visiting the Taliban while on a trip to Afghanistan, GB News has revealed.
Suliman Gani, an NHS chaplain from St George’s Hospital in Tooting, travelled to Afghanistan and apparently met up with leaders from the brutal regime. It is unknown whether he was aware of who he was meeting.
He and other British clerics posed alongside Taliban foreign minister, Mullah Amir Khan Mattaqi – a man who once threatened that there would be
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.
Declassified is taking a break at its tax-free summer residence in the Cayman Islands to drink gin and think of more offensive nicknames for politicians. Back in September.
“We’re all in this together.” So said man of the people, Eton-educated pig enthusiast, and one-time British Prime Minister David Cameron.
But our leaders aren’t like us ordinary folk, with our supermarket own-brand cheese and need to remember what day the rubbish gets collected.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that she refused to debate Florida’s new African American history curriculum with Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and a top black academic who created the study program.
DeSantis, one of the top two GOP presidential candidates, had issued a challenge to Harris on Monday night after she ignited a week full of false narratives about the curriculum following an emergency trip to Jacksonville to protest the materials.
“I am officially inviting you back down
In the years since China’s leader, Xi Jinping, transformed the People’s Liberation Army, one of his crowning creations has been the Rocket Force, the custodian of China’s expanding nuclear arsenal. The force, with its array of missiles and launch silos, embodied Mr. Xi’s ambitions to elevate his country as a respected, and feared, great power ready to counter American supremacy in the region.
But this week, Mr. Xi abruptly replaced the Rocket Force’s two top commanders with outsiders with no
In the early hours of Monday, on a train bound for Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, a police officer took up his service rifle, fatally shot his superior and then killed three unarmed passengers. All three of the passengers were Muslim men, according to Indian news reports.
Audio from cellphone videos of the incident filmed inside the train is muffled, but it sounds as if the officer, Chetan Singh, says in Hindi: “If you want to live in Hindustan, you must
