Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced a new $5.5 billion financial aid package for Ukraine and will mark the first anniversary of the war on February 24 by hosting an online Group of Seven summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Ukraine still suffers under the Russian invasion and its people need help to rebuild their daily lives and infrastructure that’s been badly damaged by Russian attacks.
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9,000 people are still missing due to Flood in Libya
The UN has amended its previous death toll from the floods in Libya, according to a revised report updated on Sunday morning from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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France’s Macron cancels trip over riots as family buries teenage
French President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a trip to Germany due to begin on Sunday after a fourth night of rioting in cities across France, as family and friends buried the teenager whose killing by police unleashed the unrest. The family of Nahel M, a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent who was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday, held a private funeral at a mosque in Nanterre, a Paris suburb.
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Cyclone Freddy affected more than 600,000 people in Mozambique
More than 600,000 people in Mozambique could be affected by Cyclone Freddy, which is expected to make landfall in the coastal provinces this week. The authorities said that the areas considered most at risk are the Zambezi valley, central regions and the southern Inhambane province. According totThe water resources head department, Agostinho Vilanculos, at least 100,000 people will require state assistance should the cyclone hit at full strength.
