As Wajima digs out from quake, hopes fade for tourism recovery

[ad_1] Wajima, Ishikawa Pref. – Hotel chef Makoto Wakabayashi was among those in Wajima hoping for a banner year as visitors returned to the scenic, seaside town that weathered more than two years of pandemic gloom.Those dreams came apart in minutes of violent shaking on New Year's Day, when the strongest earthquake to strike Japan in 13 years and multiple aftershocks devastated the city and claimed dozens of lives.Days later, […]

January 4, 2024 1

Entertainment

South Africa: Ngema Was Working On a Play About My Life – Zuma

[ad_1] Former president Jacob Zuma told mourners at Durban's Playhouse that legendary playwright, theatre director and musician Mbongeni Ngema was working on a play about Zuma's life. He said Ngema's death came after they had agreed to do a play on the life and times of how an uneducated village boy from Nkandla in rural KwaZulu-Natal became president of South Africa. "He was a freedom fighter with a rare talent for expressing messages about how apartheid oppression affected ordinary people. […]

January 4, 2024 2

Japan

Knife attack on opposition leader raises alarms in polarized South Korea

[ad_1] The man accused of stabbing Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s main opposition party, in the neck had been stalking him in recent weeks, including attending a political event where Lee was present on Dec. 13, apparently captured on video there wearing a blue paper crown, police say.At a rally on Tuesday, a man wearing a similar paper crown and carrying a message supporting Lee and his party […]

January 4, 2024 2

News

Nigeria: Ndidi Ruled Out of Afcon Due to Injury,Yusuf in As Replacement

[ad_1] Super Eagles midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, has been ruled out of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations due to injury. Ndidi missed Leicester City's 4-1 home win over Huddersfield Town on Monday on account of the injury. Antwerp midfielder Alhassan Yusuf has been drafted in as a late replacement. All 24 teams for the AFCON will submit to CAF a final squad tomorrow, but have till January 10 to make changes in the event of injury. The 23-year-old is now […]

January 4, 2024 1

Entertainment

Nigeria: Remembering Mohbad On Posthumous 28th Birthday

[ad_1] Nigerians celebrate the talented young singer whose songs have made more waves in his death than in his lifetime. It's been 111 days since the unexpected and tragic death of Nigerian musician Ilerioluwa Aloba, widely known as Mohbad. Today, he would have been 28. Nigerians are celebrating the talented young singer whose songs have made more waves in his death than in his lifetime. Mohbad died on 13 September 2023, and less than 24 hours after his tragic passing, […]

January 4, 2024 2

Africa

Africa: The Destructive Drive in African Politics

[ad_1] The descent into normlessness in various African countries calls for a new scholarly and policy approach. In the middle of December, the protracted political tussle between incumbent Governor of oil-producing Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and now Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, took a bizarre turn when Governor Fubara ordered and briefly oversaw the demolition of the State House of Assembly complex in Port Harcourt, the state capital. In a statement to the media, […]

January 4, 2024 1

Africa

Africa: Artificial intelligence Expert Warns of ‘Digital Colonization’ in Africa

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new "colonization" of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors. One of 38 people members of the new UN advisory body on machine learning, Mr. Ndiaye spoke with UN News about the landscape ahead, building on his experience […]

January 4, 2024 1

Japan

U.S., allies warn Houthis of ‘consequences’ of ship attacks

[ad_1] Washington – Twelve nations led by the United States on Wednesday jointly warned Yemen's Houthi rebels of unspecified consequences unless they immediately halt sea attacks that are increasingly disrupting global commerce.U.S. President Joe Biden's administration described the statement — joined notably by Britain, Germany and Japan — as a final warning as he weighs possible military strikes against the Houthis if attacks persist.The Iranian-backed rebels, who control much of […]

January 4, 2024 2

Japan

Confidential Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed in New York

[ad_1] Several previously confidential documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein were made public in federal court in New York after a yearslong battle over their release.The first of what are expected to be hundreds of documents identifying more than 150 individuals were unsealed on Wednesday following an order last month by U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska. The documents were filed in redacted form as part of a 2015 lawsuit […]

January 4, 2024 1

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