Section: Nigeria
137 NGOs From 31 Countries Ask UN For Myanmar Arms Embargo
People gather around an armoured vehicle maneuvering on a city street, following days of mass protests against the military coup, in Yangon on February 14, 2021.SAI AUNG MAIN / AFP Nearly 140 NGOs from 31 countries signed an open letter Wednesday calling for the United Nations Security Council to urgently impose an arms embargo on Myanmar after...
Ukraine Receives First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
This handout picture taken and released by Ukraine’s health ministry press-service on February 23, 2021 shows workers unloading a plane carrying 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Kiev’s airport Boryspil. – After several delays, Ukraine on February 23, 2021 finally received its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccine doses. (Photo...
Moscow Appeal Court Upholds Navalny Prison Sentence
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on February 20, 2021. The Kremlin’s most prominent opponent Alexei Navalny faces two court decisions on Saturday that could seal a judge’s ruling to jail him for several years, after he returned to...
EU Chief Urges States To Donate Vaccines To Ukraine
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a press statement following a phone call meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister, at the European Commission in Brussels on December 13, 2020. Olivier HOSLET / POOL / AFP. The European Commission chief said on Monday she had called on EU member states to donate some of their coronavirus...
Russia Expels EU Diplomats Over Navalny Support
This screen grab from a handout footage provided by the Babushkinsky district court on February 5, 2021, shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with defaming a World War II veteran, looking from inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow. Handout / Moscow’s Babushkinsky district court press service / AFP Russia on...
Outcry Over Navalny Crackdown As Top EU Envoy Heads To Moscow
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Handout / Moscow City Court press service / AFP) An outcry grew in Russia Thursday over a crackdown on protesters, as EU foreign policy...
House Sends Trump Impeachment Article To Senate, Triggering Trial
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 25: (L-R) The impeachment managers Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA), Stacey Plaskett (D-US Virgin Islands AT-Large), Joe Neguse (D-CO), and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) leave the Senate floor after delivering the article of impeachment on Capitol Hill on January 25, 2021 in Washington DC. Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images/AFP The US...
US COVID-19 Deaths Hit Daily Record As China Rushes To Contain Outbreaks
File photo: Nurse Eunice Lee prepares to give an injection of the Covid-19 vaccine to a health care worker at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, California on December 16, 2020. (Photo by Brian van der Brug / POOL / AFP) The United States has endured its worst day of the pandemic, with three Americans dying every minute, as China took...
Senior Republican Cheney Says She Will Vote To Impeach Trump
In this file photo taken on November 14, 2018 Wyoming US Representative Liz Cheney speaks following the House Republican leadership vote at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN / AFP Congresswoman Liz Cheney announced Tuesday that she planned to vote to impeach President Donald Trump after the...
Senior Republican Cheney Says He Will Vote To Impeach Trump
In this file photo taken on November 14, 2018 Wyoming US Representative Liz Cheney speaks following the House Republican leadership vote at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN / AFP Congresswoman Liz Cheney announced Tuesday that she planned to vote to impeach President Donald Trump after the...
