INTERNATIONAL

The Nigerian president has condemned a series of raids on villages in the central Plateau state, in which more than 150 people were killed. Muhammadu Buhari described the Sunday attacks as terrorist and offered his condolences to the families of the victims. He said the perpetrators should get no mercy. Gunmen on dozens of motorbikes rampaged through four villages in ...

Saboi Imboela National Democratic Congress (NDC) faction president Saboi Imboela says the new down government should prioritize home grown solutions with regards the economic recovery agenda instead of depending on the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ms. Imboela says the UPND government seems not to have any other solutions to the economic challenges facing the country other than the IMF program. ...

Ukraine’s prime minister has accused Russia of carrying out genocide against Ukrainians during the war. Speaking to the BBC’s Clive Myrie, Denys Shmyhal said he was “absolutely sure this is genocide against the Ukrainian nation from Russia side”. The sight of tied bodies shot at close range in the Ukrainian streets of Bucha has triggered a global outcry and pledges ...

The US has imposed sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, including his daughters. The list also includes the family of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and major banks. The measures follow new revelations of atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine, including images of bodies of civilians scattered on the streets of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv. Russia says, without evidence, ...

Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaoré has received a life sentence in absentia for his role in the assassination of his charismatic predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Sankara, 37, was gunned down along with 12 others during the 1987 coup d’état that brought Compaoré to power. The pair had been close friends and had jointly seized power in 1983. Sankara remains a ...

Ukraine’s deputy prime minister has warned people in large parts of eastern Ukraine to evacuate while it’s still possible. Iryna Vereshchuk said that military leaders in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions were asking local people to try to leave and that they were doing all they could to make this happen “in an organised way”. If people did not ...

Ukrainian officials are reporting gains made outside Kyiv and also in the southern Kherson region. The mayor of Brovary, a commuter town immediately to the north-east of Kyiv, said Russian troops had left all of the surrounding areas. Brovary itself was never captured by the Russian troops despite heavy fighting in neighbouring villages. Also in the Kyiv region, Ukrainian forces ...

Russia have responded to the alleged Ukrainian attack on a Russian oil depot in Belgorod. The Kremlin says that the strike on the fuel depot does not create comfortable conditions to continue peace talks, Reuters reports. A spokesman adds that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the incident and says everything is being done to reorganize the fuel ...

The governor of Ukraine’s Chernihiv region says there is no let-up in attacks by Russia, despite its pledge to reduce military activity there. The governor, Viacheslav Chaus, told the BBC that he did not believe Russia’s promise. “We’ve already seen that there wasn’t even a single time when their military forces kept their word,” he added. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators ...

Five people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv in Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week. It happened in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. The gunman was shot dead by police, a paramedic at the scene said. Israel security forces were on high ...