The road to the Miss World 2026 crown has entered a new phase following the unveiling of the official competition format for the 75th Anniversary edition, with Sierra Leone’s Maryam Lorba Konneh emerging among the African contestants attracting growing attention ahead of the global final in Vietnam. The Miss World Organisation has announced a revamped qualification structure that will…
Sierra Leone’s representative at the 73rd Miss World Festival in Vietnam, Mariyam Lorba Konneh, has recorded another notable achievement on the international pageant stage after Team Two, the group in which she competed, emerged victorious in the newly introduced Miss World Head Chef Beauty competition. The victory, recorded on Monday, August 17, 2026, adds another significant moment to Sierra…
Pakistan authorities said Monday they detained 258 foreigners, including 40 Chinese nationals, following a raid on an alleged “scam call centre” in the capital Islamabad. “They were running a scam call centre in Gulberg Green, a housing society on the outskirts of Islamabad,” an official from the Federal Investigation Agency, a Pakistani intelligence service, told AFP. “They came to…
The Secretariat of Dr. Ibrahim Bangura has commenced a new phase of its political mobilisation in the Western Area, targeting certified delegates ahead of the All People’s Congress (APC) National Delegates Conference, as aspirants begin laying the groundwork for the party’s 2028 flagbearer contest. The initiative, which the DIB Secretariat has termed “Delegates Maintenance,” was launched on Saturday with…
Six hundred drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded three people, the Russian capital’s mayor said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into Russian territory. Ukraine has been carrying out strikes deep inside Russia in recent weeks, with drone barrages targeting military, industrial and more recently e-commerce warehouses far from the front…
The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered intense transmission, with cases spreading rapidly across six provinces. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said this in a statement on Saturday, adding that as of Wednesday, DRC reported 4,665 confirmed cases and 2,184 deaths, representing a case fatality ratio of 46.8 per cent. The…
