Brics Ministers call for rebalancing of global order away from West

Ma Zhaoxu, Mauro Vieira, Naledi Pandor, Sergei Lavrov and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Cape Town  CAPE TOWN, June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A meeting of foreign ministers of the Brics group of nations in South Africa has called for a rebalancing of the global order away from Western nations. South African Foreign…

East African leaders extend troop mandate in east DR Congo

GITEGA (Burundi), June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — East Africa’s leaders have agreed to extend until September the mandate of a regional military force deployed to quell violence in the strife-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.  The seven-nation East African Community (EAC) began the deployment last November with Kenyan soldiers arriving…

Another arson attack targets Guyana girls’ dorm

CARACAS (Guyana), June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An arson attack partially destroyed a girls’ dormitory in a Guayanan village near the Brazilian border Thursday, less than a fortnight after a fire at another girls’ boarding school killed19 children, police said. There were no reported casualties in the blaze in Karasabai, in…

Nine killed in Senegal clashes after opposition leader sentenced

DAKAR, June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nine people have died in clashes across Senegal, the interior minister said Friday, after a court sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail. A conviction for “corrupting youth” may disqualify Sonko, President Macky Sall’s fiercest opponent, from contesting next year’s presidential…

Peru: Coastal El Niño event could persist until summer 2024

LIMA, June 2 (NNN-ANDINA) — The Coastal El Niño phenomenon is settling in all over Peru as time passes by. The latest report issued by the Multisectoral Commission in Charge of the National Study of El Niño Phenomenon (Enfen) indicates that there is a 77% chance that Coastal El Niño would continue…

MEF: International investors trust Peru’s prudent economic management

LIMA, June 2 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peruvian Economy-Finance Minister Alex Contreras said that the demand registered for Peruvian bonds reaffirmed the confidence of international investors in the prudent management of Peru’s economy. “It is like investing money in a country for 10 years. This means that there is confidence in a prudent…

US Pres Biden trips, tumbles on Air Force stage; bumped head against helicopter door

COLORADO SPRINGS (US), June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden took a face-first tumble on Thursday after tripping over an obstacle on stage at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, but he appeared unhurt — and jokedabout it later. Biden, 80, who had delivered the commencement address to graduates of…

US drought: Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up

PHOENIX (Arizona), June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New houses that rely on dwindling groundwater supplies around one of the United States’ biggest cities are to be banned, officials said Thursday, in a sign of the strains that drought andclimate change are causing across the US west. Water managers in Arizona say…

Mexico police find 45 bags with human body parts in ravine

MEXICO CITY, June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for seven young people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday. “Forty-five bags with human remains have been extracted that belong…

Kenya: Cholera cases in Siaya rise to 120; 4 deaths

NAIROBI, June 2 (NNN-KBC) — The number of Cholera cases reported in Siaya County has risen to 120. Siaya Governor James Orengo has called upon residents to support efforts to contain the disease by observing hygiene. Speaking during the flagging off of modern ambulances at the county headquarters, Orengo said…