The death toll from heavy floods and landslides in Tanzania has risen to 155 persons. The prime minister Kassim Majaliwa cautioned that the rains might continue into May, and urged families to vacate flood-prone areas. He added that the El Nino climate pattern has worsened ongoing rainy seasons and about 200,000 people and over 51,000 households were already affected by the disaster. El Nino is a Natural occurring climate pattern typically associated with increased heat worldwide, as well as drought and heavy rains. The devastating effects of the downpour were "primarily due to environmental degradation", Majaliwa said. He also blamed deforestation, unsustainable farming practices such as "slash and burn" agriculture, and unregulated livestock grazing.

The President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, recently engaged Ousmane Sonko as his Prime Minister.

A week after president Bola Ahmed Tinubu has lift all sanction slammed on Niger Republic by the Economic Community Of West African States, ECOWAS, the Niger Republic has reopened its border yesterday with Nigeria in the regions of Diffa, Tahoua, Maradi and Dosso. The ECOAWAS sanction that led to closure of all border between the two neighbours followed the coup d’état of July 26, 2023 that was lead by Abdoulrahman Tchiani who toppled the government of Mohammed Bazoum, the democratically elected president. 

On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates experienced strong thunderstorms that resulted in the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the country in just a few hours. As a result, some parts of the country's main highways and Dubai's international airport were flooded. According to the state-run news agency WAM, this unprecedented weather event surpassed any other documented since data collection began in 1949, before the discovery of crude oil when the region was still part of the Trucial States, a British protectorate.

Following the counter attack launched by the Tehran government on the Israeli airspace on Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu had yesterday summoned his war cabinet for the second time in less than 24 hours to weigh a response option to Iran's massive drone attack. Although the Israeli media said the attack did not record casualty but a little damage, courtesy of the United States and other ally’s air defences and countermeasures that helped Israel to dodge casualty record.

Israeli’s President, Isaac Herzog has said Tel Aviv was considering all options following Iran’s overnight missile and drone attacks.

Muslim leaders in the United States turndown invitations to President Joe Biden’s Ramadan breakfast dinner over his response to the Israel-Hamas war, as his campaign has been attempting to court Muslim voters.

A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for avian flu (H5N1), representing only the second human case in the US.

The United State, US, House of Representatives voted massively to endorse a bill that to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner or get banned from the United States.

France raises security alert to its highest level on Sunday following the recent deadly terrorist attack that occurred on Friday at a concert hall in Moscow, the capital of Russia, where over 137 people were killed and 140 injured in the attack by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group who have claimed responsibility. This development was made known in a post on X( (formerly known as Twitter) from the official page of the Prime Minister of France, Gabriel Attal.

At least 100 persons have been reportedly killed after Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday. According to reports, this is one of the deadliest attacks in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege when gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group "Picnic" was to perform at around 8 pm local time. Following a series of verified videos on media spaces, people can be seen taking their seats in the hall, then rushing for the exits as repeated gunfire echoed above screams. Other videos showed men shooting at groups of people, in another, we can see Some victims lying motionless in pools of blood.

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, says a direct divergence between Russia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, would mean that the planet is one step away from World War Three.