Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina urges int’l community for more support for Rohingyas

TOKYO, April 29 (NNN-BSS) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the international community to lend more support for Rohingyas who have fled from native country Myanmar to Bangladesh.  The premier made the urge in an interview with Japanese public broadcaster, NHK in Tokyo on Thursday, as she was on…

Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank: ministry

 BETHLEHEM (Palestine), April  29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the West Bank town of Bethlehem Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army said was a response to stone-throwing.  “Mostafa Amer Sabah, 16, was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Teqoa,” a statement…

Tanzania: Mineral exports earn the country 7tril/- in 2022

Minerals DAR ES SALAAM, April 28 (NNN-DAILYNEWS) — MINERALS remain among the top sectors in Tanzania, bringing in the state coffers huge foreign returns, with the current status showing that in 2022 alone, minerals valued at US dollars 3.4 million (over 7tril/-) were sold outside the country. The figures make…

Sudan crisis: WHO warns of health crisis in Sudan despite ceasefire

Sudanese refugees who have fled the violence in their country queue to receive food supplements from World Food Programme (WFP) near the border between Sudan and Chad AMMAN, April 28 (NNN-PETRA) — World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed Mandhari, urged the warring parties in Sudan…

ECLAC calls for bold actions to fulfill the 2030 Agenda

SANTIAGO, April 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Participants in the forum of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) called to accelerate and correct the course for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).     The executive secretary of ECLAC, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, warned that 75 percent of the objectives set…

South Africa-Germany signs agreement to benefit cooperatives

PRETORIA, April 28 (NNN-SANEWS) — South Africa has signed an international development cooperation agreement with the German Cooperative Raiffeisen Confederation to benefit local cooperatives. The agreement will be implemented through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Development Agency (NDA), an agency of government tasked with contributing towards…

Update: Three US soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crash during training flight

ALASKA, April 28 (NNN-XINHUA) — Three US soldiers were killed and another injured when two army helicopters crashed Thursday in Alaska after returning from a training flight, the Army said. The accident happened near Healy, a remote area of Alaska. Each helicopter carried two people, said John Pennell, a spokesperson…

Lightning strikes kill 15 in India’s West Bengal

NEW DELHI, April 28 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least 15 people were killed and several others injured due to lightning in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, officials said on Friday. Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24 hours affecting south Bengal districts.…

11 dead, 9 still missing after boat sinks in west Indonesia

PEKANBARU (Indonesia), April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A speedboat carrying at least 78 people sank in western Indonesia, and rescuers were searching for nine people still missing in the rough seas early on Friday. Rescuers have retrieved 11 bodies, mostly women and children, and rescued 58 people so far, many of…

US calls on Pakistan to move forward on IMF reforms

WASHINGTON, April 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States called on Pakistan to move ahead on stalled reforms sought by the IMF, promising technical help as the world’s fifth most populous nation weathers an economic crisis. Pakistan signed a $6.5 billion bailout package with the International Monetary Fund in 2019 but…