Photo credit: Aljazeera Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved to dissolve Parliament and trigger a snap election on April 28. AlJazzera reports that the decision on Sunday, after meeting with the governor-general to request parliament’s dissolution, has kicked off an election race.  On the festering tension with the United States, Carney said: “We are facing the most significant crisis…

Photo credit: Reuters Venezuela has reached an agreement with the US to resume repatriation flights of migrants. Reuters reports that President Nicolas Maduro announced on Saturday. Maduro said: “Tomorrow, thanks to the government’s perseverance we’ll resume flights to continue rescuing and freeing migrants from prisons in the United States.” There had been a diplomatic spat between…

Photo credit: hawarnews The health ministry in Gaza reported 41 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total casualties in the region to a grim milestone since the October 2023 Hamas attack. 

Photo credit: Aljazeera Thousands demonstrated  Saturday in Tel Aviv against the decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to dismiss the head of the  Shin Bet domestic intelligence service and resume fighting in Gaza. Reuters reports that Netanyahu had said this week he had lost confidence in Ronen Bar, who has led Shin Bet since 2021,…

Photo credit: the conversation Rather than being a tragedy for Africa, the withdrawal of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the hands of President Donald Trump’s administration should be cause for celebration, the former ambassador of the African Union to the US, Arikana Chihombori-Quao has argued. She says that USAID doesn’t have much to…