The unpredictable and volatile security situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region challenges the continuing scale-up of relief operations, planned to reach all people in need, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the challenges, with victims living in cramped quarters for the displaced in the regional capital of …

By Gerald Mbanda African countries have rejected to join western countries that blame China on the alleged mistreatment of the Muslim Uyghur population in the north-western region of Xinjiang. They have also rejected to sign up to UN rebukes of China’s alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong or …

Kenya and Tanzania have signed a deal for a gas pipeline that will run between the coastal cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam. The signing took place Tuesday, as Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan made her first visit to Kenya following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli. Speaking …

Components sit on circuit boards on display at the Semicon Taiwan exhibition show in Taipei, Taiwan, September 5, 2018. /Getty U.S. mainstream media is waging an intense information warfare campaign against China that employs neo-imperialist projection in an attempt to discredit the principled cause of Chinese reunification. The latest example …

The civilian authorities in two northeastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a state of siege was declared days ago to curb surging violence by armed groups, will be replaced by military administrations, said a presidential order issued late Monday. “To address the situation during the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said the number of new COVID-19 cases had increased globally for the ninth consecutive week while the number of deaths also climbed for the sixth consecutive week amid a recent surge of cases in India.  The global fight has been exacerbated by the …

By Ndung’u Wainaina State should put legislative frameworks for the protection of the journalists. In Summary • A chilling effect on the right to freedom of expression arises when interference with this right causes fear, leading to self-censorship and ultimately the impoverishment of public debate. • Accordingly, State authorities should …

A worker labors at a silk products factory in Hai’an, Jiangsu province, March 8, 2021. [Photo/IC] 1st May, marked International Workers’ Day, a day to show respect for the working people and advocate the spirit of hard work. The Chinese are known as hardworking and inventive people. Just as work …

The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa reached 4,560,728 on Saturday as the continent continued calls for vaccine equity to ensure a universal fight against the pandemic. The latest figures from the Africa CDC also showed that the number of virus-related deaths on the continent had hit 121,828. Various African …

A recent string of mass shootings in the United States have once again proved that the country, always proclaiming itself a defender of human rights, is indeed a hypocrite, as deadly gun violence rate keeps ballooning while gun proliferation remains rampant.U.S. President Joe Biden this month  depicted gun violence in …