A Public Security Police officer in Lisbon, Portugal, shot dead a Cape Verdean immigrant, identified as Odair Moniz, 43, in the Cova da Moura neighborhood of Amadora in the early hours of Monday morning. The official version, according to the Portuguese media, indicated that Moniz wielded a melee weapon against the PSP patrol....
A meeting mediated by Angola in Luanda between the foreign ministers of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda culminated in the decision to cease military hostilities as of next week, August 4. Angola, represented by its President, João Lourenço, was appointed by the African Union to mediate in the conflict...
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, warns that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has become a war against children. UNICEF's Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Jodr, said this Monday in Tokyo that probably all children will be traumatized, because they have experienced something that none of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be willing to "immediately" cease hostilities with Ukraine. This Friday he imposed a number of questions in order to move forward with negotiations. Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from four regions, namely Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporijia, and to abandon plans to join Nato. "...And so...
A group of demobilized members of the State Defense and Security Forces have been rioting for three days at the United Nations headquarters in Maputo. They are former soldiers who "laid down their arms" to make way for the signing of the General Peace Accords on October 4, 1992, in Rome, Italy. But also, in the group...
Pope Francis said on Sunday that wherever there is fighting, people are exhausted, tired of war, which is always pointless, mentioning, among others, the situations in Sudan and Cabo Delgado in Mozambique. After praying the Angelus at the Vatican, Pope Francis said that "wherever there is...
Five journalists and two local media professionals were killed by Israeli shelling between Saturday and Sunday, bringing to 42 the number of reporters killed since the start of the war. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a non-profit organization that fights for free journalism around the world, by...
The mayor of Quelimane, Manuel de Araújo, warned on Thursday that the scale of electoral fraud in the October 11 municipal elections could plunge the country into political tension and accused the ruling party of "spewing poison" to incite Mozambique into a new war. Mozambican political analysts suggest that the only...
The head of Israeli diplomacy said on Monday that international pressure is mounting on Israel because of its military operations in the Gaza Strip and that efforts must be made to extend "the legitimacy" of these actions. "We have two or three weeks before international pressure really intensifies, but the Ministry of...
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday at an investor forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that the war between Israel and Hamas is already affecting the economies of neighboring countries. "Look at the neighboring countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, where the impacts are already visible," said Kristalina Georgieva, quoted by...