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After being found guilty for their participation in the US Capitol riot on January 6, five members of the far-right Proud Boys, including their former leader Enrique Tarrio, now face decades in prison. According to the BBC, all five were found guilty of obstructing government operations and other felonies, and four of the five were found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Penalties for the most serious offences can range up to 20 years in prison. The...

After discovering that shipments were being diverted to local markets, USAID and the World Food Programme announced on Wednesday that they were freezing food assistance to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.   “We have made the difficult decision to pause all USAID-supported food assistance in the Tigray region until further notice,” said Samantha Power, administrator of USAID, the main foreign aid organisation of the US government.   In a statement, Power said that the organisation had...

In the midst of the ongoing, deadly fighting in the nation of Sudan, Nigerian students are still imprisoned in Khartoum. As plans are being made to evacuate about 5,500 stranded Nigerians out of Sudan via the Egyptian town of Luxor, the Federal Government has reportedly revealed that 40 buses are on the ground and ready to transport the students from Khartoum to Cairo. To ensure that the stranded Nigerians are transported safely, the Nigerian government...

Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) candidate for president, was allegedly detained by UK immigration authorities in London last Friday. After his British Airways flight touched down at Heathrow Airport on Friday morning, Obi was reportedly detained for hours and questioned by the authorities. Read Also: Call for my arrest, prosecution baseless – Lai Mohammed This was revealed on Wednesday morning by Prof. Chinyere Okunna, a well-known mass communication expert and the deputy vice chancellor...

Russian missiles struck a home in Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeast Ukraine, killing a 50-year-old man and his daughter, 11, officials said on Sunday. It was the most recent Russian attack on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as Moscow’s invasion enters its second year. Sergiy Kruk, the head of the State Emergency Service, posted on social media, “The enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia and killed another Ukrainian family.” Anatoliy Kurtiev, the head of the Zaporizhzhia...