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Mar
18
2024
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and ARI RABINOVITCH
Netanyahu says Israel to press on with Rafah assault plan

Netanyahu says Israel to press on with Rafah assault plan

WORLD
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, where aid agencies say famine is looming, while ceasefire talks were set to resume. Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting that Israel would push into Rafah, the last relatively safe place in the tiny, crowded Gaza enclave after more than five months of war, despite international pressure for Israel to avoid civilian casualties. "We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen," he said, without clarifying if he meant the assault would last for weeks or would begin…
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Nov
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria’s Tinubu to attend ‘G20 Compact with Africa’ conference in Berlin

Nigeria’s Tinubu to attend ‘G20 Compact with Africa’ conference in Berlin

NEWS
NIGERIA'S President Bola Tinubu will fly to Berlin to attend the G20 Compact with Africa conference as he seeks to attract investments in energy and infrastructure and boost trade, his office said. The conference, hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, will focus on enhancing economic and business cooperation between African nations and G20 countries, spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement. Tinubu will also participate in the fourth G20 Investment Summit, co-hosted by the German government, where he will make a case for Nigeria as an investment destination, Ngelale said. Nigeria is seeking to boost investment rather than rely on…
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Oct
31
2023
By The African Mirror
Germany’s Scholz says his country willing to invest in Nigerian gas, minerals

Germany’s Scholz says his country willing to invest in Nigerian gas, minerals

NEWS
GERMAN Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country was willing to invest in gas and critical minerals in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, as he started a two-nation visit to sub-Saharan Africa. This is the third visit to the region by Scholz in two years and comes as conflicts elsewhere highlight the growing importance of an energy-rich region in which Berlin has traditionally had little involvement. "There is a willingness to invest, especially in critical minerals," Scholz told reporters at a joint briefing with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu in the capital Abuja. On gas, he welcomed Nigeria's efforts to expand its…
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Oct
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Energy-hungry Germany’s Scholz courts Africa as crises elsewhere bite

Energy-hungry Germany’s Scholz courts Africa as crises elsewhere bite

NEWS
GERMAN Chancellor Olaf Scholz this weekend makes his third visit to sub-Saharan Africa in two years, as conflicts elsewhere highlight the growing importance of an energy-rich region in which Berlin has traditionally had little involvement. He will visit major energy producer Nigeria, as well as Ghana, with migration flows and instability in West Africa also on his agenda. Much of the impetus for the trip has come from the realization that Germany - and Europe - need Africa more than it thought, said Greens legislator Anton Hofreiter. "People realized we needed allies against Russia's invasion of Ukraine," he said. "And…
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Jul
19
2021
By The African Mirror
‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe

‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe

WORLD
RALPH BROCK and ROMANA FUESSEL GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as "terrifying" after the death toll across the region rose to 188 and a district of Bavaria was battered by the extreme weather. Merkel promised swift financial aid after visiting one of the areas worst affected by the record rainfall and floods that have killed at least 157 in Germany alone in recent days, in the country's worst natural disaster in almost six decades. She also said governments would have to get better and faster in their efforts to tackle the…
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Jul
19
2020
By The African Mirror
France, Germany, Italy threaten sanctions over arms for Libya

France, Germany, Italy threaten sanctions over arms for Libya

NEWS
THE leaders of France, Germany and Italy on Saturday threatened for the first time to use sanctions against countries that continued to violate a United Nations arms embargo on Libya. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte urged "all foreign actors to end their increasing interference and to fully respect the arms embargo established by the United Nations Security Council" in a joint statement issued by the French presidency after meeting in Brussels. "We are ready to consider the possible use of sanctions if the breaches of the embargo at sea, on land…
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