Senegalese today protested against President Macky Sall’s controversial move to delay this month’s presidential poll to December Sall’s decision to push back the February 25 vote plunged Senegal into a crisis which has seen three dead amid clashes between protesters and police. The group, which includes some 40 civil, religious and professional groups, had called…
Israel’s spy chief is on his way to Cairo for talks with his Egyptian and United States counterparts on a Gaza truce proposal. Mossad director David Barnea will meet CIA chief William Burns. They will be joined in the Egyptian capital by Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, who also serves as the country’s…
Liberia’s new defence minister on Monday resigned from his post just 10 days after being appointed, following a protest by soldiers’ wives. The resignation marks the first political crisis facing Liberia’s new president Joseph Boakai since his inauguration at the end of January. Boakai “has received and accepted a letter of resignation from the recently…
Commotion befalls yesterday in western Cameroon following a bomb explosion that killed one person and left numerous others injured. Reports obtained on Monday morning suggest that anglophone separatists may have orchestrated the attack. According to state television CRTV, the explosion occurred two hours after a procession of school children had taken place to celebrate Youth…
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday warned against talk that “undermines security” after former US president Donald Trump threatened to encourage Russia to attack NATO members who were not fully paid up. “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US,” Stoltenberg said in a…
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday warned against talk that “undermines security” after former US president Donald Trump threatened to encourage Russia to attack NATO members who were not fully paid up. “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US,” Stoltenberg said in a…
Hungarian President Katalin Novak has resigned following outrage sparked by a decision to pardon a man implicated in child sexual abuse case. In a statement announcing her resignation Novak apologised to those who are hurt and all the victims who may have had the impression that she did not support them. I am, I was…
Madagascar’s justice minister defended a new bill Friday to castrate child rapists, with the measure deemed “cruel, inhuman and degrading” by Amnesty International. The upper house Senate approved the measure permitting chemical and surgical castration after it had been voted through by the National Assembly earlier this month. Amnesty International urged Antananarivo to drop the…
Malawi has removed Visa restrictions for citizens from the UK, China, Russia, Germany, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, France, and others. The exemption extends to nations that do not impose visa requirements on Malawian citizens. Under the new visa regulations, multiple entry visas in Malawi now have a validity period of up to…
More than 5,000 people are believed to have died in France as a result of sever summer heat last year “Everyone has been affected,” Caroline Semaille, head of France’s public health agency, told reporters as she presented a report on heat-related deaths last year. The summer of 2023, marked by four heatwaves including in August…
