Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Gaza war: Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese border village of Chihine on July 28, 2024. Fallout from the Gaza war is regularly felt on the Israel-Lebanon frontier, where deadly cross-border exchanges have escalated between Israeli troops and mainly Hezbollah fighters. (Photo by Kawnat Haju/ AFP) A nationwide strike aimed at […]

A Texas judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause on a policy that would streamline the process for spouses of US citizens to obtain legal status in the country, a blow to one of US President Joe Biden’s biggest immigration reform policies. Judge J. Campbell Barker granted a 14-day administrative stay in a case brought […]

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks behind bulletproof glass during a campaign rally at the North Carolina Aviation Museum & Hall of Fame in Asheboro, North Carolina, August 21, 2024. (Photo by Peter Zay / AFP) Agency Report Donald Trump held his first outdoor campaign event on Wednesday since an assassination […]

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, a longtime political foe of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been named the country’s interim leader. The 84-year-old was appointed a day after Hasina fled the country following weeks of deadly protests that brought her resignation. While Yunus has been lauded for his pioneering use of microloans, Hasina regarded […]

Johannesburg South Africa’s Johannesburg, ranked as the continent’s richest city due to its concentration of businesses and estimated 12, 300 millionaires, is facing a substantial infrastructure crisis. The city requires 221 billion rand ($12 billion) to address a severe backlog of maintenance and overdue upgrades across its deteriorating road, power, and water networks. Recent discussions […]

US President Joe Biden says it is time to “pass the torch to a new generation” as he explains his decision to end his faltering re-election campaign. Biden, 81, told Americans in a televised address that he withdrew his candidacy and endorsed US Vice-President Kamala Harris to unite their fellow Democrats and the country. In […]

(FILES) Former US president Donald Trump leaves the courtroom of the State Supreme Court on the first day of his civil fraud trial on October 2, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified former President Donald Trump from the ballot in the state’s presidential […]

Koroma, Photo: Heritage Times Former Sierra Leone president reported to police in Freetown on Friday to be questioned over what the government has called an attempted coup at the end of November, an AFP journalist said. Koroma, who led the West African nation for 11 years until 2018, arrived at around 10:00 am local time […]

Nigeria is calling for the release of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and for the military junta to allow him to leave for a third country, its foreign minister said. Nigeria is the current chairman of the regional group Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS which has imposed sanctions on Niger following the […]