“It is doubtful that the head of the German government was or is authorised by anyone to make such statements on behalf of other countries,” she added.
, unregulated construction, and poor drainage infrastructure.“Flooding has become an annual event, between the months of April and October,” Ugonna Nkwunonwo, a flood risk analyst at the University of Nigeria, told Al Jazeera.
He warned that while flood risks have long been identified, “there has not been much political power to implement this change”.“This flooding is a result of climate change, which is affecting the frequency and intensity of rainfall,” he said. “The amount of rain you expect in a year could probably come in one or two months, and people are not prepared for that kind of rainfall.”Last year, more than 1,200 people died and up to two million were displaced by similar disasters across Nigeria.
“This tragic incident serves as a timely reminder of the dangers associated with building on waterways and the critical importance of keeping drainage channels and river paths clear,” the National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.Ship carrying oil and hazardous cargo sinks off Kerala coast
Video shows a cargo ship capsizing off Kerala’s coast in India, leaking oil and hazardous materials as authorities scramble to contain the spill.
Five years since the murder of George Floyd, what has changed?Last year’s procession, held during the first year of the Gaza war, saw ultranationalist Israelis attack a Palestinian journalist in the Old City and call for violence against Palestinians. Four years ago, the march contributed to the outbreak of an 11-day war in Gaza.
Turkiye is calling for action – not words. History will judge those who remain silent in the face of genocide.During the darkest days of World War II, Anne Frank and her family hid in a secret attic in Amsterdam to escape the horrors of Nazi persecution. Her posthumously published diary offered the world a haunting glimpse into the fear and trauma endured by Jewish families at the time.
Today, a tragically familiar story is unfolding in Palestine. This time, it is children like Anne Frank – tens of thousands of them – facing death by starvation and relentless bombardment by the Israeli government. They don’t even have an attic to hide in; the buildings around them have been reduced to rubble by indiscriminate Israeli attacks.Eight decades after the Holocaust, another genocide is unfolding – this time with Palestinian children as both victims and witnesses of ethnic cleansing. Each of these children carries a harrowing story the world needs to hear. One day, we may read their accounts in memoirs – if they survive long enough to write them. But the international community must not wait that long. It must confront the suffering of these children now. That is why we gave children in Gaza a platform to ask the world a searing question: “Why are you silent?” – through a documentary that has become one of Turkiye’s most