By: Abudu Olalekan So, a sliver of light. Finally. After weeks of the most brutal noise, a quiet so fragile you’re almost afraid to breathe on it. The guns in Gaza have fallen silent, for now. And this morning, that silence was broken by the most precious sound of all: the first footsteps of people…
By: Abudu Olalekan Venezuela’s democracy activist Maria Corina Machado just won the Nobel Peace Prize. That’s right – she did. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this big news on Friday. Machado was picked out for her incredible work promoting democratic rights across Venezuela. She’s been fighting for a just and peaceful transition away from dictatorship….
By: Abudu Olalekan Imagine this. Dark skies over the North Sea. Jets screaming across the waves. Sirens wailing in the distance. It’s not some Hollywood thriller. Nope. It’s NATO’s big annual nuclear drill, Steadfast Noon, firing up come Monday. Alliance boss Mark Rutte dropped the news Friday. Tensions? Sky-high. Russia’s been poking the bear—er, the…
By: Abudu Olalekan The clock in Washington ticked down. A digital display on social media showed the final seconds to midnight over the stark image of the Capitol building. It felt like a scene from a movie. But this was real. And then, just like that, it happened. The US government began shutting down. Yeah,…
By: Abudu Olalekan Close your eyes. Picture this: a room thick with tension in New York. Not some stuffy conference hall. Real tension. The kind that makes your palms sweat. António Guterres stood there last Friday. UN Secretary-General. Face grim. Words dropping like stones. “The threat is accelerating and evolving,” he said. Not future tense….
By: Oluwaseun Lawal The earth shook hard in eastern Afghanistan at exactly just some minute before midnight. It was a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit, which was followed by multiple aftershocks. Homes collapsed. Families were trapped. More than 800 people lost their lives, Taliban officials say. The quake rattled buildings from Kabul all the way to Islamabad…
