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Tuberculosis Deaths Shrink By 26% In Africa – WHO

March 24, (THEWILL) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Africa recorded a 26 per cent reduction in Tuberculosis (TB) deaths between 2015 and 2021. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshdiso Moeti, in her message to mark...

Over 2bn People Lack Clean Drinking Water – UN

March 22, (THEWILL) – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has said about two billion people lack safe drinking water, globally. This agency, in a report released ahead of the UN Water Conference in New York,...

International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Putin

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March 18, (THEWILL) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrant for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, over alleged war crimes. The claims by the court are primarily centred around the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to...

UN Observes International Day Against Islamophobia

March 11, (THEWILL) - The United Nations, on Friday, commemorated the first-ever International Day to combat Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the fear of hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslim in general, especially when seen as...

Eight Killed In Brutal Shooting At Jehovah’s Witnesses Hall In Germany

March 10, (THEWILL) - At least eight people were killed in a brutal shooting at a Jehovah’s Witnesses Assembly Hall in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday evening, police authorities said on Friday. At the time of filing this report, the...

Russia Invasion Displaced 13.3 Million People In Ukraine — UN

February 07, (THEWILL) - At least eight million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries and another 5.3 million are now internally displaced, since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the United Nations said...

Hundreds Killed, Injured As Earthquake Hits Turkey, Syria

February 06, (THEWILL) - Over 200 persons have been confirmed dead and hundreds injured, following a magnitude earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria, early Monday morning. The US Geological Service said the earthquake struck at 4:17am local time (01:17...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Resigns

January 19, (THEWILL) - New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on Thursday, announced plans to resign her position as PM, no later than February 7, saying she no longer had “enough in the tank” to do the job. Ardern, 42,...

Ukrainian Interior Minister, 17 Others Die In Helicopter Crash

January 18, (THEWILL) - Ukrainian officials said 18 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children, died on Wednesday morning, when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv. The regional governor said 29 people were...

Gunmen Kill Former Afghan MP Mursal Nabizada

January 16, (THEWILL) - A former Afghan MP and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital, Kabul. Her brother and a second security guard were wounded in the attack on Sunday. Kabul police spokesman, Khalid Zadran,...