Photo credit: Aljazeera An Israeli airstrike hit Beirut’s southern suburb on Tuesday. The Israeli army said it was a retaliatory attack for a cross-border attack three days earlier. CBC reports that the Israeli military claimed to have killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and head of its strategic unit, Fuad Shukr, in the strike. Shukr…
Photo credit: The Conversation The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused the Rwandan army of jamming satellite navigation systems, affecting civilian flights in the conflict-hit east of the country. BBC reports that DRC said that Rwanda was interfering with aircraft Global Positioning System signals through “jamming” and “spoofing”, a type of cybercrime involving the creation of false…
Photo credit: BBC I can’t help asking, even if for the umpteenth time, where we got it all wrong. I mean Nigerians! I spent time searching for the Oluwo of Iwo interview. Thanks to Ma’am Doyinsola Ilori who furnished me with a video evidence of the Oluwo’s latest rascality. What manner of thinking? Let’s even…
Photo credit: Hungary Today There have been allegations of failure to rescue and assist migrants in distress, maltreatment, and abuse of migrants at EU borders. FRA reports that investigations of these rights violations remain ineffective. The latest report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights identifies system gaps and obstacles to investigating such violations. The…
Photo credit: Democracy Now Human Rights Watch has alleged that the warring parties in Sudan are engaging in widespread gender-based violence in the capital, Khartoum. Aljazeera reports that both the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces soldiers have regularly carried out rape and, among other crimes, since the start of the civil war in…
