Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Schools in Malawi’s two largest cities are to remain closed until further notice due to a worsening cholera outbreak, the government said on Monday. Students were due back in class after the holidays on Tuesday. But the health ministry said the start of the school term for primary and secondary pupils in the capital Lilongwe […]

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot arrives to meet families of the victims of Thursday’s fire incident, in Jodhpur (PTI) Police on Friday reported that five people were killed and more than 40 injured after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in at a wedding gathering. Police official, Anil Kayal said the explosion occurred in a village […]

A Cape Town pub drew a rebuke from the South African government and widespread condemnation on Tuesday after it allegedly barred a black man from entering without a white escort. The government urged police to probe “with speed” the “appalling” and “racist incident”, which it said saw 25-year-old Thabiso Danca denied entry at Hank’s Olde […]

This picture taken on December 5, 2022 shows activists holding a protest against the new criminal code outside the parliament building in Jakarta. – Indonesia’s parliament approved on December 6 legislation that would outlaw pre-marital sex while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code — a move critics deemed as a setback to the […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (C) waves outside the NASREC Centre in Johannesburg, on December 05, 2022 after a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Africa National Congress (ANC) to discuss the fate of the President. – Ramaphosa will not resign, the South African president lifted the suspense over the weekend. But hampered for […]

In this file photo taken on November 23, 2022 South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, southwest London. – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will not step down despite a parliamentary report this week into the alleged cover-up of a cash robbery at one of his farms, his […]

Motorists drive along the ring-road encircling Egypt’s capital Cairo on October 30, 2022, past a billboard depicting the country’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with the Arabic slogan “our goal together for Egypt is knowledge and work”. (Photo by Amir Makar / AFP) In a rare public show of protest in Egypt, “thousands of lawyers” staged […]

Protest portrait of Mahsa Amini Iran issued a series of death sentences as women-led protests over Mahsa Amini’s death in custody entered a third month Wednesday, with clashes overnight leaving at least six people dead. Street violence raged across Iran overnight as protests sparked by the September 16 death of Amini intensified on the anniversary […]

A person, believed to have suffered from cardiac arrest, is transported on a stretcher in the popular nightlife district of Itaewon in Seoul on October 30, 2022. – Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul on October 29, after thousands of people crowded into narrow streets in the city’s […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on October 26, 2022, for the House of Commons to take part in his first Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). – Rishi Sunak will today face off against opposition lawmakers for the first time as British prime minister, in a likely raucous parliamentary session […]