June 24, 2021

North Korea’s foreign minister has ruled out the possibilities of holding any talks with the United States, insisting that dialogue with Washington would ‘get us nowhere’.

His comments coming just a few after Sung Kim, the top US envoy in charge of North Korea negotiations, visited South Korea this week in a bid to restart diplomacy with the nuclear-armed nation.

But US hopes for a revival of talks were rebuffed by influential official Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s leader, hinting that Washington had ‘wrong’ expectations for dialogue.

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A former prime minister of Ivory Coast, Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life describing it as unfair.

In a statement published on Twitter which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, he said; ‘I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation of all the rules of law, and which are solely based on political reasons.’

According to him, the aim of the trial had been to put an end to his political ambitions.

According to him, the trial showed how the Ivorian judiciary could easily be …

World powers gathered Wednesday in Berlin to seek enduring peace in Libya by ensuring the conflict-wracked North African country doesn’t deviate from its plans to conduct general elections on December 24.

Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya’s interim government joined US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as the foreign ministers of France, Turkey, and Egypt at the UN-sponsored talks.

Russia’s Sergei Lavrov was absent, but deputy foreign minister Sergey Vershinin was attending in his place.

The efforts to end a decade-long spiral of violence in Libya are the second round held in Berlin, after the first attended …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that his government would not succumb to pressure from criminals to lift the curfew imposed in the wake of dastardly attacks on security formations in the state.

According to the governor, the curfew would remain despite sponsored criticisms against it.

Wike spoke at the 60th birthday celebration of the federal lawmaker who represents Rivers South-East senatorial district in the Senate, Senator Barry Barinada Mpigi in Port Harcourt.

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The governor, who reiterated he is not unmindful of the traffic difficulty experienced by …