Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:56:55 +0000 Could Biden’s Clean Energy Push Be a Victim of Its Success? Thanks to the president’s signature legislation, solar energy manufacturing is booming in Georgia, a key state in the 2024 election. But the industry now worries that it could be too much and too fast.
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Below, solar panels over parking spaces at Richard Stockton College, New Jersey.
2 Killed, 7 Injured in ICRC Convoy Attack in Sudan's Khartoum An attack on a humanitarian convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Sudanese capital Khartoum killed two people and injured seven, the ICRC said Sunday.
The wounded included three ICRC staff members, the Red Cross added in a statement.
"The humanitarian convoy, consisting of three ICRC vehicles and three buses, all clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem, was due to evacuate over a hundred vulnerable civilians from Khartoum to Wad Madani when it came under...
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:15:44 -0500 Kenya Suffers Third Nationwide Power Blackout in 3 Months A nationwide power blackout hit Kenya Sunday evening, paralyzing large parts of the country, including the main airport in the capital, Nairobi, a major transport hub connecting East Africa to Asia, Europe and other parts of the world.
Sunday’s outage began around 8 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) and was the third national power supply failure within the last three months.
Among the key establishments affected was the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, as well as Eldoret Airport...
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:04:21 -0500 Sudan's Warring Generals Agree to Meet for Possible Cease-Fire Sudan's warring generals agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country's devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday.
Sudan slipped into chaos after soaring tensions between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in mid-April in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the...
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:17:08 -0500 West Africa Leaders Meet as Region Struggles With Coups West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts.
After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS saw member states Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau report attempted coups in recent weeks.
A French military withdrawal from the Sahel — the region along the...
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:54:45 -0500 Rwanda Official Died Without Facing Justice: Genocide Victims A Rwandan genocide survivors' group on Sunday voiced anger that Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former official convicted of complicity in the 1994 massacres, died this week "without facing the full force of justice".
Bucyibaruta, who died on Wednesday aged 79, was the highest-ranking Rwandan to have faced trial in France over the 1994 massacres in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in 100 days of mass killings.
Bucyibaruta was found guilty in July 2022 of...
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:16:45 -0500 UN Struggles to Fund Peacekeeping as Nations Demand End to Missions The United Nations' top peacekeeping official defended the organization's missions worldwide as concerns grow that they've gone into retreat as African leaders demand their withdrawal from Mali to Congo.
Under Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said Wednesday that the force operates on a $5.5 billion budget, which is less than that of the New York City Police Department, even though its force is much larger, with 70,000 personnel worldwide. He told...
